About Doug Varnado
Pastor Doug Varn
ado began his ministry with Community Church in 1992 while also serving as an Associate Professor at Lipscomb University. He has served in a full time role as the Senior Pastor since leaving the academic community in 1999. Doug grew up in Guam and Charleston, S.C. before moving here to Nashville where he met his wife Linda, who also serves on our staff as Pastor of Caring Ministries. After serving as missionaries in London, England for several years, they returned home to Nashville where Doug then went on to received his M.Div. in theology at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. With an insatiable appetite to learn more about God, Doug later received his doctorate in Missiology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago.
Doug and Linda have two wonderful adult children, Nick and Kate and a beautiful grandson, Westin that they are crazy about.
Presently Doug also serves on the boards of Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center and Mission Discovery, and is the President of the Community Pastor’s Association.
Community is an interdenominational church that is focused on loving God and others. The 2011 focus has been on “Life Apps” – monthly themes that have broken down pracitical applications of God’s Word. In this final Advent month the focus will be on the “Expectation” of … Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. Come join us …
Doug, I was a student of yours at Lipscomb in the mid-1990′s, and I had never encountered Christianity and faith before in the way that you obviously so passionately lived it. I did not like how it didn’t fit the dispassionate faith that I assumed to be the only acceptable way. I want you to know that as I have grown in faith and even left the church of my heritage, your influence still moves me as a minister to this day. Thank you! I never got to tell you that before, that I am grateful for all the lives you have influenced and continue to change for the better, like mine. Blessings to you and to your church. In Christ’s Love, Dustin Adkins
Dustin Adkins said this on June 12, 2010 at 2:55 am |
Amen.
Lynne Carter said this on November 17, 2009 at 11:25 am |