Tim Dunavant comes to us from Tennessee. He and his wife, Staci, have been married for 17 years and have two adult children.

 

Tim was once a high school dropout that turned to a life of drugs and crime. He had an overwhelming encounter with Jesus when someone gave him a Bible while incarcerated in Nashville, Tennessee. He surrendered to God and the Holy Spirit re-ordered his life. He went back to school and got a degree in culinary arts, he was a chef at the time. After founding a jail ministry and growing in his faith, he was asked to begin pastoring in 2013. During that time, first he completed the five-year graduate level program at Emory University for Methodists called the Course of Study. Then he was awarded a bachelors in Christian Ministry from Trevecca Nazarene University. And lastly, a masters of divinity from Kairos University.

 

This unique background has afforded him a platform to be able to reach the Outcast, the forgotten, and the marginalized in the community. He and Staci feel that a part of their call is to build bridges; bridges between the hopeless and those that stand on the hope of Christ, bridges between area churches, and bridges between the church and the local government.

 

Tim is ordained as an Elder in the Global Methodist Church. He and Staci look forward to getting to know the people of the church and of Lake City and use their life experiences and education to bridge the gap between the churched and the forgotten.