Pastor Doug Widger, Lead Shepherd

Doug has served churches in Oklahoma, Florida and Texas for the past 35 years. He has served as a DCE and Pastor in the LC-MS. He and wife Karen were married in 1985 and have two adult children. Sarah (daughter) and her husband Stephen live in the greater Houston area where they are raising Jonathan (born in 2019). Son, Joshua lives in the College Station area, having recently graduated from Texas A&M.
Doug loves to share God’s word and delights in seeing the Holy Spirit bring people into new life. One of his life verses is from 1 Corinthians 1:23-25 “but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.”