Brian Payne is the new pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church

TUSKEGEE LEE ASSOCIATION

Brian Payne is the new pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church, Auburn, beginning June 20. He will serve concurrently with longtime pastor Al Jackson until Jackson retires Oct. 31.

Payne has earned two degrees from the University of Alabama. He served as a pastoral intern on the Lake-view staff from 1999 to 2002.

Payne holds a master of divinity in systematic theology and a doctor of philosophy degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

He returns to Lakeview from Kentucky, where he presently serves as pastor of First Baptist Church, Fisherville, and professor of preaching and theology at Boyce College.

Payne and his wife, Heather, have five children.