JOSHUA BAPTIST CHURCH

Dr. Gene Wolfenbarger was born to a farming family in the hills of eastern

Tennessee, where he spent the first sixteen years of his life.  He attended a

very small four-room country school until his sophomore year.  The

Wolfenbarger family moved to California in the mid-fifties where Dr.

Wolfenbarger finished high school and college.

He came to Texas in the early sixties and managed Dallas Extrusion Die, Inc.  While

attending Central Park Baptist Church, he accepted Christ as his personal Savior.  He

entered Bible Baptist Seminary in Arlington, Texas in 1967 where he received his Bachelors

Degree in Biblical Studies.  He later received his Doctorate from the Baptist Christian

College of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Dr. Wolfenbarger has served as pastor of three Baptist churches, and served as a full time

evangelist for twelve years.  He presently is the founding pastor of the Joshua Baptist

Church, which he started in 1986 with about 10 to 15 prospective members.  The church

currently has a membership of well over 1,000 people.

Besides the duties of pastoring a church, Dr. Wolfenbarger serves as the Dean for the

Joshua Baptist Bible Institute, and as the Founder and President of the Joshua Christian

Academy.

Dr. Wolfenbarger is the proud father of six children.  He and his wife, Ginger, enjoy

spending time with the family out at the "ranch".  In his spare time, he enjoys breeding and

training coon dogs, hunting, and working outdoors.