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Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title ''The First Word'' were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets. The broadcasts reached a total weekly audience of 15 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House Resolution No. 141 by Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City, 2013 )〕 Lowery announced on May 5, 2013, that he would retire that year from his ministry. On September 8, 2013, the Reverend Bradley Lynn Jurkovich (born 1973), known as Brad Jurkovich, formerly of the Victory Life Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, succeeded Lowery as pastor at the Bossier City congregation. Jurkovich's Sunday morning sermon is now carried on ''The First Word''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Pastor Elect, September 8, 2013 )〕 ==Background== A native of Montevallo in Shelby County in central Alabama, Lowery is the second of four children born to a late pastor, also named Fred L. Lowery, and the former Esther Burkhalter〔 (c. 1923-2013), who spent her later years in Hurst in Tarrant County, Texas. The senior Lowerys are interred at the Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Montevallo. Lowery's maternal uncle, the late Clark Burkhalter, was also a pastor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Esther B. Lowery, July 22, 2013 )〕 Lowery's brother, John Daniel Lowery of Aiken, South Carolina, a former automobile salesman, died in 2013 at the age of sixty-eight, less than four months prior to the passing of their mother.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Daniel Lowery (August 21, 1944 - April 3, 2013) )〕 His other siblings are Dr. Charles S. Lowery (born 1948), a motivational speaker, who with his wife, Penny, lives in Denton County, Texas, and Norma Jean "Jeannie" Metts (born 1941), wife of Dr. Harold Leroy "Roy" Metts (also born 1941), of Colleyville in Tarrant County, Texas.〔 Metts is a professor of Greek and New Testament at Criswell College in Dallas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=H. Leroy Metts: Professor of Greek and New Testament )〕 Before he received the call to the ministry, Lowery wanted to be an airline pilot.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherry P. Shephard, "Fred Lowery retires after 30 years at First Baptist Bossier: 'The Lord has something out there and I will preach until I die'", January 7, 2014 )〕 Lowery received his Bachelor of Arts from Samford University in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, a Master of Theology degree in 1969 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Luther Rice University, then in Jacksonville, Florida, and since relocated to Lithonia, Georgia. At SWBTS, Lowery was accepted into the honors program and was a teaching fellow in the fields of evangelism and church growth. After seminary, Lowery worked full-time in evangelism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lowery Featured Speaker for Oklahoma Baptist University Chapel Service, February 14, 2000 )〕 Lowery and his wife, the former Lisabeth Leigh Jones (born 1951), married in 1974,〔 have two daughters, Christy Camille Lowery Faciane and husband, Ky, of Collierville, near Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee, and Shelby Lynn Lowery Koch (born 1977) and husband, Jon, of Austin, Texas.〔 Lowery previously lived in Avon Park in Highlands County in southern Florida and Inman in Spartanburg County in northwestern South Carolina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Search Results for Lowery, Fred in LA )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred L. Lowery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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