Lead Pastor: John Whitsett

Pastor John Whitsett began his ministry at Tulsa Central in January 2007 after twenty years of pastoral ministry in the Church of the Nazarene.

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John grew up in the Kansas City and Oklahoma City areas and attended Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion in 1980. It was there he met and married his wife Angie, a native of Nacogdoches, Texas. John furthered his education at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, earning the Master of Divinity degree in 1986.

Upon graduation, they moved to the south suburbs of the metro Dallas area and gave three-plus years to planting the Ovilla Road Church of the Nazarene. They then moved to the Bay Area of California to pastor Cambrian Park Church of the Nazarene in San Jose for six years, and on to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he served North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene for eleven years.

John and Angie are the parents of two sons—Kevin is a Music Education major at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee and Collin attends and runs track and cross country at Union High School. They are also the caretakers of Buddy and Cassie—two of the laziest, but most loving, dogs you’ll ever meet.

Position: Lead Pastor

Favorite Vacation: Alaska cruise in the summer of 2004

Favorite authors: John Ortberg, Joe Stowell, Oswald Chambers

Favorite movie: Most recent is “We Are Marshall”

Favorite quote: “Church people understand that you can’t meet every expectation; they just want you to meet theirs.” (Can't remember who said it.)

Favorite web links:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/ (Sports section for the Kansas City Times … lets me follow my beloved Royals and Chiefs)

What's on my iPod: Give me grace here … I just learned how to use a PDA a couple of years ago.