By Neisha Roberts
The Alabama Baptist
Doug Prestridge, pastor of Harmony Grove Baptist Church, Edwardsville, has seen children grow up in the church and then have their own children, he said. He’s served as the Cleburne Baptist Association church’s bivocational pastor for 40 years, even after retiring from Moore Business Forms Inc. in Heflin six years ago.
Prestridge said he knew the Lord called him to preach because he was “miserable until I started doing it.”
Ordained in 1973 at his home church, Pine Grove Baptist Church, Heflin, Prestridge went on to serve as pastor of McCollum Baptist Church, Lineville, and then Harmony Grove Baptist. “It’s been a blessing to see the families grow (at Harmony Grove),” he said.
The church held an afternoon reception in his honor in November 2016 at Edwardsville Baptist Church.
Prestridge and his wife, Cleo, have three children, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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