We welcome Bro Vann Dempsey and his wife, Rhonda, to Altamaha Baptist Church as our Interim Pastor. Bro Vann has served in various churches, most notably, a sister church, Calvary Baptist Church in Jesup, GA for many years before his retirement. 

Brother Chris was raised in Tampa, Florida, the son of a Southern Baptist Pastor.  He is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University.  He was called into the ministry in 1992, at the age of twenty-two. 

He served as Associate Pastor of Borinquen Baptist Church in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for seven years and taught English at Carib Christian School.  He served as the  Minister of Youth at Kathleen Baptist in Lakeland, Florida for 5 years before beginning teaching English at Wayne County High School in Jesup, Georgia, in 2005.  In 2007, Chris was called to serve at Altamaha Baptist as Minister of Music. 

He married his wife, Amy, in 1993.  They have three children:  Daniel, Jared and Adeline.

I began my salvation journey with Jesus Christ when I was nine years old. I remember years ago when I was invited by a friend to a church event and the gospel was preached and my heart awoke to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Since then, my personal relationship with Christ has grown. As I “work out my salvation” in faithful conduct and Christian living, I see His hand guiding me and sanctifying me all along the way and I fully recognize “for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” and that there is no other in whom I can go and find such forgiveness, peace and complete joy! 

I surrendered the call to vocational ministry in my sophomore year of college. I've served as interim assistant youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Americus, Ga; preschool, children and youth minister at Limestone Baptist Church, Cochran, Ga; youth pastor and later education pastor at FBC Ludowici, Ga. I graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007 with a Master's of Education in discipleship and leadership. Candice and I have been married since 2000 and have three children: Haddon, Hannah and Hudson. We are excited to be ministering since 2013 at Altamaha Baptist Church and find joy in seeing children and their families grow in Christlikeness!

Joey Scarborough, along with his  wife, Ericka have been members at Altamaha Baptist Church for many years and have served faithfully with our Pastors in the Children and Youth ministries. Joey recently has started a community wide ministry reaching out to youth called ROOTS Ministry here in Wayne County, GA. They have two sweet kids, Josie and Cade. We are thankful for them serving our youth during this time as we search for our next Youth Pastor.