Fred L. Lowery
| Fred Lynn Lowery | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 16, 1943 Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama, USA |
| Residence | Bossier City, Louisiana |
| Alma mater |
Samford University |
| Occupation | Retired pastor, First Baptist Church of Bossier City, Louisiana |
| Years active | 1960 - |
| Spouse(s) | Lisabeth Leigh Jones Lowery (married 1974) |
| Children |
Christy Camille Lowery Faciane |
| Website | http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/the-first-word/read/ |
Samford University
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Christy Camille Lowery Faciane
Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets. The broadcasts reached a total weekly audience of 15 million.
Lowery announced on May 5, 2013, that he would retire that year from his ministry. On September 8, 2013, the Reverend Bradley Lynn Jurkovich (born 1973), known as Brad Jurkovich, formerly of the Victory Life Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, succeeded Lowery as pastor at the Bossier City congregation. Jurkovich's Sunday morning sermon is now carried on The First Word.
A native of Montevallo in Shelby County in central Alabama, Lowery is the second of four children born to a late pastor, also named Fred L. Lowery, and the former Esther Burkhalter (c. 1923-2013), who spent her later years in Hurst in Tarrant County, Texas. The senior Lowerys are interred at the Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Montevallo. Lowery's maternal uncle, the late Clark Burkhalter, was also a pastor. Lowery's brother, John Daniel Lowery of Aiken, South Carolina, a former automobile salesman, died in 2013 at the age of sixty-eight, less than four months prior to the passing of their mother. His other siblings are Dr. Charles S. Lowery (born 1948), a motivational speaker, who with his wife, Penny, lives in Denton County, Texas, and Norma Jean "Jeannie" Metts (born 1941), wife of Dr. Harold Leroy "Roy" Metts (also born 1941), of Colleyville in Tarrant County, Texas. Metts is a professor of Greek and New Testament at Criswell College in Dallas.
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