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First Baptist Opelika welcomes new interim associate pastor of encore and pastoral care

  • November 12, 2022
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Cade Farris is the interim associate pastor of encore and pastoral care of First Baptist Church Opelika.

First Baptist Opelika welcomes new interim associate pastor of encore and pastoral care

Cade Farris is the interim associate pastor of encore and pastoral care of First Baptist Church Opelika.

Farris holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of North Alabama and a master of divinity degree in theology from Southern Seminary. He previously served as minister of music at Baptist churches in Alabama and Indiana. He served on the staff at FBCO for the first time from 2004 to 2011 as minister to college and singles for two years, and then as the minister to adults for five years. He left FBCO to serve as the lead pastor at FBC Wedowee from 2011 to 2015. Before returning to the staff at FBCO, Farris was pastor at FBC on the Square, LaGrange, Georgia, from 2015 to 2022.

He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children.

Jeff Meyers is pastor.

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