Larry Link

Associate Pastor of Education
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What year did you start working at First Baptist?
1985

Tell us how you came to know Christ: 
Through the influence of a Sunday School teacher when I was in the 3rd grade, living in Stillwater, Oklahoma.  He was a college football player at OSU.

What’s your favorite thing about your job? 
Working one-on-one, & in small groups with folks in my ministry area.  

What’s your favorite Bible verse currently? 
“…but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:13-14  

What do you feel like God is teaching you lately?
To “be still”…

What are your hobbies? 
Running, spending lots of time w/grandkids (all 8 of them)

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up and why? 
Coach…because my coaches growing up had influenced my life a great deal.  

Tell us a bit about your family? 
My wife, LaVon, and I will have been married 47 years this spring…we have 3 amazing kids, and 8 grandkids (2 dogs).  Our youngest is our daughter…married for 2 years, has a son, lives in Dallas.  Our middle child is a son, been married 19 years, 4 children, lives in Tulsa.  Oldest child is a son, been married 17 years, 3 sons, lives in Sanger, TX.

What’s your favorite meal and who would be attending?  
Barbecue w/all the trimmings…lots of spice sauce, and tons of Tobasco…refills on coffee.  Attended by our entire family…all 16 of us!  

Tell us a little known fact about yourself: 
I wasn’t in ministry, or considering going into ministry when my wife and I married.  That didn’t happen until several years into marriage.  

Why should someone get involved at First Baptist Church Arlington:
It is a very “open-to-new-ideas” church…not a church stuck in an expected mold of all other churches.  In 25 years of ministry here, I’ve watched time and time again as we have reached out to embrace new avenues of ministry.  My own ministry is an example of something that didn’t exist two years ago!