Teman W. Knight III, pastor of Heritage Baptist Church, Montgomery, celebrated 40 years of ministry May 1. He has led Heritage Baptist since August 2010. He is also an adjunct professor of Old Testament and Hebrew for New Orleans Seminary and serves the seminary’s Caskey Center for Church Excellence as director of the central Alabama extension and associate director for Alabama.
Knight holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Southeastern Louisiana University and master of divinity and doctor of philosophy degrees from New Orleans Seminary.
He was licensed (1983) and ordained (1985) by First Baptist Church Bogalusa, Louisiana.
He served with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions from 2001 to 2010, first as an associate in the office of evangelism and later as director of the office of leadership and church health. He served as pastor of York Terrace Baptist Church, Sheffield; Hillsdale Baptist Church, Amite, Louisiana; Bethel Baptist Church, Kentwood, Louisiana; and Sunny Hill Baptist Church, Mount Hermon, Louisiana. He also worked with music and youth at FBC Springfield, Louisiana, and Lewiston Baptist Church, Kentwood, Louisiana.
He previously was an adjunct professor for New Orleans’ Clinton extension and adjunct professor of religion at William Carey School of Nursing in New Orleans.
He was a visiting professor for Guatemala Baptist Seminary, Venezuelan Mission Training School and Honduras Pastors School.
He is currently serving on the advisory board for Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery as well as on the board of regents for the University of Mobile. He was president of the Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference in 2016 and a member of the SBOM executive committee.
Heritage Baptist celebrated Knight and his wife, Darlana, April 30 during the service. The couple has two children and four grandchildren.
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