OurPastors - Generations Free Will Baptist Church

Senior Pastor

Our senior pastor is Jerald Bass. Originally from Rogersville, MO, he graduated in 1985 from Logan-Rogersville High School. He then attended Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, OK. While at Hillsdale he met and married Cassie DuVall. Both Jerald & Cassie graduated from Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and a minor in Music. After graduation they moved to Sapulpa, Oklahoma to serve as associate pastor of youth at Allen Free Will Baptist Church. They moved a year later to Fort Worth, Texas to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Jerald, Cassie and their growing family left Ft. Worth in 1996 to pastor the First Free Will Baptist Church in Weleetka, OK., where they served for nine years. They accepted the call to come to Joplin in March of 2005. Jerald completed his Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Seminary in 2005. He also serves as a chaplain in the Army Reserve. God has blessed Cassie and Jerald with five children.

Youth Minister

Our Youth Minister is Craig Edgmon. Craig grew up in Charleston, Arkansas where he graduated from Charleston High School in 2003. He answered the call to preach in the summer of 2002 and his future was forever changed. After high school Craig attended Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, Oklahoma. While in college, he served as youth minister at Southern Oaks Free Will Baptist Church in Oklahoma City for two and half years. After four years at Hillsdale he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministries in 2007. Shortly after graduation, Craig accepted the call to minister at our church and moved to Joplin.