Revival – Rocky Ridge Baptist Church

Evangelist Don Mathis will preach in Revival and Evangelistic services at the Rocky Ridge Baptist Church, Cadiz, Thursday evening through Sunday morning, June 3-6. Night service will be at 7 pm and Sunday morning with Sunday School at 9:30 and Worship 10:30. Everyone is invited.
Dr. Mathis has completed twelve years of full-time evangelism after serving as a pastor, as Executive Director/Minister of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists, and as Director of Pastor-Staff Leadership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has preached in approximately 750 revival meetings.
Mathis served as pastor of Central Baptist, Winchester, 1994-96, during which time the church recorded the highest Sunday School and Worship attendance in its eighty-five-year history. Previously, he was pastor for twelve years each of Central Baptist, Corbin and Southside Baptist, Princeton. Both congregations tripled in attendance and membership. The Corbin congregation had more than two thousand additions with average Sunday School attendance increasing from 330 to 945 and Worship growing from 400 to more than a thousand
Born in Trigg County, Mathis grew up in Christian County. He is married to the former Sharon Daugherty of Ohio County. They have two adult children and one granddaughter. Dr. and Mrs. Mathis reside in Bowling Green.
He is a graduate of Austin Peay State University and holds both Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville. Also, University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, honored him in 1988 with the Doctor of Divinity degree.
Mathis holds the distinction of being the only person in the last 50 years to twice be elected president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. In 1985-86, he was elected while serving as pastor of Central Baptist Church, Corbin; and, in 2009-10 as the first evangelist ever to hold the position. Also, he has served as President of the Kentucky Baptist Pastors Conference, 1981-82. He has served as Association Moderator, Sunday School Director, and for twelve years in two associations as chairman of evangelism. At the Southern Baptist Convention level, he served as a Trustee of LifeWay Christian Resources and twice on the Committee on Nominations.
He has written two books: Surviving and Thriving in Today’s Ministry and The Pastor-Staff Search Committee Guide, as well as regularly contributing to several leadership magazines.
Pastor Steve Hardy and the congregation invite all to attend these special revival and evangelistic services.