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Sanders Grove to install its new pastor Joshua Willis
Sanders Grove Baptist Church in Smithfield will install Rev. Joshua Willis as pastor at 3 p.m. Sunday June 30 at 6989 North Carolina 210. The service features speaker Rev. Argo Matthews, moderator of the Johnston District Missionary Baptist Association, followed by a meal. Willis, 30, is the churchs 10th pastor in 80 years and its youngest. He was born in South Carolina, preached at 18, ordained in Fayetteville in 2019, licensed in 2021, and is studying theology at Liberty University while founding Willis & Keller Trucking and Clean Harvest Lawn Care. He and wife Demares expanded their family to six. Sanders Grove, nicknamed The Little Church That Can, sits among graves of four generations.
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Rivers of Life Church
Fayetteville
Oakley Grove Missionary Baptist Church
Union Missionary Baptist Association
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church
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Liberty University
Willis & Keller
Clean Harvest
Smithfield
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Sanders Grove Baptist Church