On January 1, 2001, Jerry Seabaugh joined the Region staff as the Midwest Area Minister for the American Baptist Churches of the Central Region. In 2005, the Midwest Area and the South Central Area combined and became the Cross-Roads Area with Jerry serving as area minister. (Area ministers serve as "pastors to pastors," as church consultants and as a resource persons to assist churches during pastoral transitions.) Jerry is working with approximately 72 churches in central Kansas.
Jerry grew up in the St. Louis area. He received a
BA from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo.; M.Div. from the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY; and D.Min. from Northern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Ill. He has also pastored four
churches after seminary with 24 years of pastoral experience.
Jerry's active lifestyle includes golf, trout fishing,
walking, hunting, bowling and whitewater rafting. He also reads a variety
of books including westerns and sci-fi novels. Linda Seabaugh works for
Hutchinson Community College and enjoys gardening, walking, quilting and teaching her adult Sunday School class.
The Seabaughs have two married children. David, and his wife, Ruth,
and grandsons, Josiah and Daniel Seabaugh, live in St. Paul, Minn. David is serving in his first pastorate. Teresa and her husband, Tim Toolen, live in the St. Louis area where Teresa works in the health care profession and volunteers as a campus minister at Maryville University.
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