SENIOR PASTOR, First Baptist Church, Woodstock, GA | www.fbcw.org

Dr. Johnny M. Hunt is Senior Pastor of the 11,500 member First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia. The church has grown from just over 1,000 members when he arrived in 1986 to its present membership. Sunday School attendance has grown from 275 to 7,500 in that same period.

Johnny received his education at Gardner Webb University where he received at B.A. Degree in 1979. He graduated from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div.) in 1981. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from Immanuel Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Sacred Laws and Letters from Covington Theological Seminary. A Chair of Church Growth as established in his name at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1997.

Dr. Hunt pastored three churches in North Carolina before coming to First Baptist, Woodstock, Georgia. His current church gives over $2 million dollars annually to missions. He has been active in several areas of Baptist life, including being elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the SBC Pastor’s Conference.

Johnny is married to his wife Janet and they have two daughters and four grandchildren.