Highview Baptist Church (Louisville, Kentucky)
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Highview Baptist Church is a multi-site megachurch based in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention. Randy Overstreet is currently the church's interim senior pastor.
Founded in 1953, the church has multiple campuses located throughout metro Louisville. As of 2007, the campuses include the East Campus on Shelbyville Road; the Fegenbush Campus (the main location) on Fegenbush Lane, which also is home of the Hispanic Campus; and the Valley Station Campus in the southwestern part of Jefferson County.
The church sponsors Whitefield Academy, founded in 1976 as Highview Baptist Christian School.
Dr. Kevin Ezell was the senior pastor beginning in 1996 until he accepted the presidency of the North American Mission Board in the fall of 2010. Dr. Les Hughes was offered and accepted the position of senior pastor in the spring of 2012.[1] He held the position until his resignation effective June 1, 2015.
Former Jefferson County Judge/Executive Rebecca Jackson has served as a community liaison and director of senior citizens programs for the church.
Justice Sunday
The church was the focus of national attention in April 2005 when it hosted Justice Sunday, a rally where politically active conservative Evangelical Christians gathered to protest efforts by the United States Senate to filibuster conservative-leaning candidates for judgeships in the federal courts. The event attracted leading members of the conservative Christian movement, including James Dobson and R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The event was widely covered by the news media, and also was protested by critics of the movement. It was the first of three such events to date, with the others held in Nashville, Tennessee and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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References
- ↑ "Our Staff". Highview.org. Retrieved 2011-02-15.