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Joe Fain is the new pastor of Elam Church, Tallassee. He previously served as interim pastor of the church. Prior to Elam Church, Fain served as pastor of Goodwater Church. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Baptist Bible Institute (now The Baptist College of Florida) in Graceville and a master’s degree from Covington Seminary in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Fain and his wife, Sherry, have one child and two grandchildren.
What do you suppose it would be like to have Jesus as your older half-brother? To grow up in the same family as the Son of God? To have a senior sibling who is incapable of sin, who leads a perfect life?
The idea was so uncomfortable at first. Emma Kate Taylor didn’t even know if it would work. “I didn’t want to be seen as weird,” she said.
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