Steve Booth Associate Pastor for Christian Formation 358-5458, ext 167

Stephen “Steve” C. Booth serves as Associate Pastor for Christian Formation.  He and the other formation staff ministers partner with gifted lay leaders to develop and implement programs and ministries for assisting seekers and believers in participating in God’s “on-going process of conforming  all persons into the image of Christ for the sake of others.”   

Opportunities for learning, contemplation, and service are designed to encourage the formation of the whole person - “head, heart, and hands.”  In addition to serving as team leader for the formation staff team, Steve provides primary leadership and direction to the following ministries:  Sunday morning Bible Study; discipleship classes, workshops, and seminars; small groups; spiritual direction; individual and group retreats; new member orientation and assimilation; and the equipping of ministry leaders.  

Steve was ordained by the Highland Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky. He came to First Baptist Church after having served churches in Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana. Steve is a native Mississippian with family roots in North Carolina. He is a graduate of Campbell University and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He holds the Doctor of Ministry degree in supervised ministry from Andover Newton Theological School. 

He and his wife, Barbara, are parents of Jordan, Megan, and Meredith and grandparents to Jackson.  Jordan and his wife, Erin, are Jackson’s parents.  Megan, and her husband, Peter, live in Charleston, SC.