Elder Walter Petree II & wife

He was born May 5, 1950 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Walter was raised in a family of seven, the eldest of five children. He has three children and six grandchildren. Walter attended O.M.B.I. Four years(1981-1984). He completed his seminary training at F.M.B.I.(1995-2003) with a Doctorate of Theology degree. He has Pastored three of the Lord's churches-Maranatha MBC, Centralia, MO., Calvary MBC, Madill, OK., and was called August 1, 2001 to the Shasta MBC, Redding, CA.(2005) and is our current pastor. Walter states, "I have hopes to write and publish in my later years, Lord willing."