I am currently 42 years old and live in Hebron, KY with my wife Mandy and two daughters Brooke and Hannah.  My wife and I have been married almost 21 years and been together for 26 years, serving the Lord together in ALL of them!! I was saved in 1991 at age 12 on a Wednesday night under the preaching of Chuck Miracle at Orchard Street Baptist Church. I left church that night, running from God, but I only ran about 1 mile before I got BORN AGAIN at home beside my bed under Holy Ghost conviction!! Praise God!! From that moment, my life has never been the same!! At age 16, the Lord began to deal with my heart about preaching the Gospel. I begin to pray about a wife to serve the Lord with just a few days after knowing the Lord was calling me to preach HIS Word. The day I met my wife Mandy, I knew I would marry her. About one year after I met my wife at the age of 17, I surrendered to preach the gospel!

  I graduated high school in 1997. The summer of 1997 I enrolled at Temple Baptist College to study Theology and Ministry. In 1999 a door was opened for me to preach in prisons and jails in various places, while also filling pulpits and preaching revivals. For approximately 20 years, I preached in the prisons, while also continuing to preach revivals and filling pulpits as the Lord would lead. I served the Lord during these years as a youth pastor as well, helping, teaching and encouraging young people to run from sin and turn to the Savior! In 2013 after sitting under Pastor Doug Foster at Immanuel Baptist Church in Florence, KY I became the Director of the Good News Prison Ministry. Around the same time I became one of the Asst. Pastors under Bro. Doug Foster at Immanuel Baptist Church.

  At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 doors began to open and the Lord started to deal with my heart regarding pastoring.  During this time I entered into a 36 day prayer and fasting season, in which the Holy Ghost made it absolutely crystal clear through prayer and HIS Word that HE was calling me to Pleasant View Baptist Church in Dry Ridge, KY!! Hallelujah!! My first Sunday as Pastor at Pleasant View was 2/24/2019. In April of 2019 the Lord opened up Heaven for us! We saw the first person come to Christ in Salvation in April of 2019, and since then a revival and awakening in the church has taken place and still continues!! We have now seen over 300 people SAVED by the grace and power of God so far that we know of. We have seen tremendous growth within the church numerically but more importantly…spiritually! We are currently IN a move of God I have never witnessed but only read about in the past! We are so thankful for God’s Hand of Grace and favor upon the church to bless us and show us HIS power and glory during these days! Bless HIS Name!! It has truly been a miraculous and supernatural journey our Lord has put us on, and we look forward by faith in great anticipation to see what happens in the next year as we pray the Revival and Awakening in the church continues!! 

Pastor Lawrence Longworth

Matt 5:14 “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”