Greg Breazeale

I was born on February 20, 1981 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi though I grew up in Purvis, a small town outside Hattiesburg.  Early on, I had a somewhat consistent church life, though I was by no means walking in fellowship with Jesus.  After high school, I went to the University of Southern Mississippi on a baseball scholarship.  During the summer of 2000, God brought me to a place where the things I had leaned on for my value and worth began to crumble.  In June, after my freshman year, I began to read the book of Romans, mostly as a way to get God to help me figure out why things were happening as they were.  But the more I read, the more I became convinced that I did not know Jesus as Savior, and therefore was not walking in the way God desired me to walk.  A few days later, on June 12th, was when I believe God saved me.  For the first time in my life, I felt clean and forgiven. 


Shortly after, I began to sense something stirring in me talk publicly about what I had experienced and what I was reading in the Bible.  My pastor gave me some opportunities to teach and preach, which confirmed the fact that God had called me to do pursue this kind of work full time.  On September 12, 2000, First Baptist Church of Purvis, Mississippi licensed me to full time Christian service.  I then transferred to William Carey University where I finished a degree in Religion with a minor in Communication.  During my last year there I met Heather and we married in December 2003, shortly after I had taken the senior pastor position at Wanilla Baptist Church in Monticello, Mississippi.  Three years later we moved to Covington, Louisiana in order for me to finish my masters degree at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I graduated in the summer of 2008 with a  Master of Divinity in Christian Thought.  We have two sons, Cross (born in 2009) and Rhyse (born in 2011). In November 2010 I became senior pastor of Metro East Baptist Church.


My Hope For Metro East...I want Metro East to be a church that loves and lives the Gospel.  I want to see men and women become fully devoted to Jesus and fully engaged in the world around them.  I want to continually push us to see and savor Jesus above all things, and pursue Him as our greatest treasure in life.  I have a deep passion for men to pursue godliness, and to lead their families well.  I long to see the city of Wichita loved and impacted by the Gospel as we do our part as the body of Metro East. 
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