serving the lord for a lifeTime
The Johnston Family
We are Ryan and Sarah Johnston. We love Jesus, we love the Church, and we love to worship. I have served 15 years at Lavon Drive Baptist Church in Garland, TX, helping guide the ministry through a challenging time of transition, revitalization, renovation, and rebirth. Serving on the Executive Team alongside the Senior and Executive Pastors, I was able to leverage my creativity, diligence, leadership, and character to be part of taking a church in slow decline to a place of health and growth, with attendance now around 1000 on Sundays across two English services and one Spanish service.
When I came on staff 15 years ago, I supervised one staff member and had a small volunteer team under my direction. Today, I lead 100+ volunteers and 10 paid staff that make up the Music, Communications, and Awaken Coffee House teams, having developed and launched the latter two departments over the course of my tenure.
Today, the church is in a healthy place, growing toward its goal of being a multi-cultural, multi-generational ministry that makes disciples who make disciples.
