Pastor Emily and her family will be out of town for a few weeks this summer on vacation, attending the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, and going to Pastor Emily’s bi-annual Family Reunion. As a result, we will have three guest preachers in worship. These will be familiar faces to many, as they have each preached here before. We look forward to having them join us and wanted to share a little more about them here.
Chris Caldwell (pictured above)
June 14
On June 14, Rev. Dr. Chris Caldwell will be our guest preacher. Chris is no stranger to IBC, as he filled in for Pastor Emily during her parental leave. Chris is the chair of Religious Studies at Simmons College of Kentucky. He joined the Simmons faculty full time after serving as the pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Louisville from 2002-2017. Previously he served as pastor of churches in Florida, Texas, and Indiana. He was ordained by the Second Baptist Church of Memphis and holds degrees from Rhodes College (BA in English), The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Baylor University (PhD with an emphasis in New Testament studies). He and his wife, Jeanne, have two adult children.
Susan Lockwood
June 21
Rev. Susan Lockwood will be our guest preacher on Sunday, June 21. Susan is an Appalachian Kentuckian. She has been an ordained Baptist minister since 1983, and has served eight congregations as Senior Pastor or Interim Senior Pastor in Metro Chicago, Georgia, Ohio, Connecticut, and Kentucky. Susan was one of the first handful of women pastors in the SBC in 1983, and is featured in the recently released documentary, Midwives of a Movement. She and her older brother, Chip, are graduates of Georgetown College – and of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
She is married to Bruce Landis, a Library Technology Consultant, and they share three adult children, five grandkids, and currently an English Springer Spaniel rescue, Katee. They live in Jeffersonville, IN.
Jason Crosby
July 19
Rev. Jason Crosby, a Kentucky native, is the Chaplain at Centre College. Jason previously served at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville from 2008 – 2022 where he was co-pastor beginning in 2011. He was born in Louisville and raised in Covington. He attended Centre College, receiving a BA in religious studies in 2001. He earned his MDiv at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Prior to joining the Crescent Hill Baptist Church staff, Jason served as an interim minister at the First Baptist Church of Battle Creek, Mich., worked as a community organizer with the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice in Ann Arbor, Mich., and was a project coordinator with Kentucky Refugee Ministries. Jason serves on the board of directors for Kentucky Refugee Ministries and the ACLU-KY. Jason is married to Kate and is the father of two young children, Brooks and Millie Lou.