About us
our team:

Dr. John Green
Lead Pastor
Herbert Beck
Pastor of Music & Worship
Chase Campbell
Pastor of Young Adults & College

Matt Crabtree
Pastor to Students

Dr. Chad Crawford
Campus Pastor / CumberlandKnox

Chad Davenport
Associate Student Pastor

Steven Hoover
Associate Worship Director
Dale Maddox
WallaceKnox Administrator
dmaddox@wmbc.net

Jarred Morgan
Pastor of Creative Arts & Communication


Jeff Stevens
Pastor to Children & Families
Grant Williams
CumberlandKnox Administrator

Kent Williams
Pastor of Pastoral Care
Darrell Wright
Pastor of Discipleship & Leadership Development
Sandy Bolton
Missions Director

Megan Kewaza
Director of Children's Ministry


Jennifer Harbin
Ministry Assistant
Nancy Harbin
Ministry Assistant

Nancy McBee
Ministry Assistant
Jane McPherson
Ministry Assistant
Laura Simpson
Ministry Assistant

Kristi Spencer
Ministry Assistant

Rita Laxton
Finance Manager


Emily Summers
Business Office Manager
Kristie Bell
Weekday Ministries Director

Tim Bennett
Facilities
Martha Gammons
Facilities

Our history
On Sunday morning, September 21, 1952, under the leadership of the missions committee of Arlington Baptist Church, the first service of the Clinton Highway Baptist Chapel was conducted in the Tillery Theater on Clinton Highway with 73 people present.
On July 6, 1953, in the afternoon following the first service in the new location, the church was duly constituted, adopting the name Wallace Memorial Baptist Church in honor of Dr. William Lindsay Wallace, medical missionary to China for 17 years until his death at the hands of the Communists in 1951.
In 1964, Wallace's pastor at the time, Dr. Jim McCluskey (far right in photo), and a team from Wallace Memorial Baptist Church planted Cumberland Baptist Church in order to reach the Cumberland Estates community.
In 1988, as the church began to plan the construction of a new worship center, the idea grew to have an illuminated cross that would be high enough to be seen from nearby Interstate 75. The entire tower was designed with a stained glass front that would extend to the cross itself. The cross was erected on Sunday morning, October 7, 1990, as a part of the worship service of Wallace Memorial.
On November 15, 2015 after a five month period of prayer and teaching, Cumberland Baptist Church voted with a strong majority of 85% to dissolve its charter and become part of the Wallace Memorial Baptist family of faith through the Legacy Church Planting strategy.
In July 2017, Wallace voted unanimously to name Dr. John Green IV as the fourth Lead Pastor in the history of Wallace Memorial Baptist Church.
Previous Lead Pastors:
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Rev. AW Parker (1953-1958)
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Dr. Jim McCluskey (1959-1996)
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Dr. Mike Boyd (1997-2016)




