Mac Brunson
| Mac Brunson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Donald McCall Brunson September 20, 1957 Greenwood, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Spouse(s) | Debbie Brunson |
| Children | Courtney, Trey, Wills |
| Website | inlight |
Donald McCall "Mac" Brunson (born September 20, 1957) is an American Baptist minister who is the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) megachurch. He has served as senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
Brunson was born in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina, the youngest of three children. He helped out in his father's retail furniture store and played football in high school. He became convinced of the truth of his religion at the age of 12 while at a summer camp run by the church. Brunson decided to become a minister during his freshman year at North Greenville College, where he completed his associate degree. He then obtained a B.A. at Furman University in Greenville. He studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity degree in 1985 and his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1991. Thereafter, he became pastor of South Norfolk Baptist Church in Chesapeake, Virginia, and then Green Street Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina.
In 1999 Brunson was appointed senior pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. He was president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor's Conference in 2003. He moved to Jacksonville, Florida in February 2006 to replace retiring pastor Jerry Vines as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville. At that time the Jacksonville church, with 28,000 members and occupying nine blocks of downtown, was almost three times the size of the Dallas church.
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