Ino Baptist Church calls new pastor

Danny Branch is the new pastor of Ino Baptist Church, Kinston.

While teaching high school and then serving as principal, Branch served bivocationally as children’s minister of First Baptist Church Samson; pastor of Reese Baptist Church, Samson; and pastor of Piney Grove Baptist Church, Samson. When he retired from education, he became the full-time pastor of FBC Samson.

Branch holds a bachelor of education degree in secondary education, social science, from the University of Alabama; a master of education degree in educational leadership from Troy University; and is pursuing a master of arts in pastoral ministry from New Orleans Seminary.

He and his wife, Cricket, have four children and two grandchildren.