Belief Series: Southern Baptist

Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Douglas Peirce has been in Sidney for about 22 months but has been a pastor at three other Baptist churches.

However, he began his adult life as an engineer with his own business in surveying and engineering in Indiana, “When I was 50 years old, back in 1994, the Lord spoke to my heart and told me to sell the business and go to seminary.”

Though he did not grow up Baptist it would be the foundation of his beliefs in his early adult life.

“I grew up in a very liberal denomination and I was in that church for 26 years. A neighbor of mine back in Niles, MI invited my...