OUR TEAM
Lucas Taylor
Pastor
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Lucas Taylor is the Pastor of Glory Church. He is a graduate of Pikeville High School and Morehead State University, and he holds a Master of Divinity in Great Commission Studies from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.
Prior to planting Glory Church, Lucas worked on staff as a Pastoral Ministry Apprentice at Center Point Church in Lexington, KY, then most recently as the Associate Pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Shelbiana, KY.
Lucas serves alongside his wife Stacie, and they have two daughters, Leigh Ellen and Lucy. As natives of Pikeville, they are grateful to root their family and ministry in the heart of the mountains that raised them.
Jordan Hampton
Church Planting Resident
Jordan Hampton is the Church Planting Resident of Glory Church. He is a graduate of Shelby Valley High School and the University of Kentucky. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Jordan is a High School Math teacher at Pikeville High School and has previously served at Center Point Church in Lexington, KY.
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Jordan serves with his wife, Tabor, and they have moved to Pike County to pursue God's call on their life to make much of Jesus in Eastern Kentucky.
OUR STORY
Why Glory Church?
God is glorious. He is gloriously holy, loving, just, and kind. The word glory literally means “weight.” The glory of God is the weight of all that He is. It is the sum of all His greatness. We are planting Glory Church because we believe that everything we do should point to God's greatness!
Whether it be pursuing an education, the relationships we form, how we use our finances, or even our favorite hobbies, everything we do should revolve around our glorious Creator and be viewed as a way to bring Him glory (1 Corinthians 10:31)
Why Pike County?
We love the hills of Eastern Kentucky and the people they hold, and we want to see this area thrive.
The vast majority of our neighbors in Pike County are not involved in a local church of any denomination. We want to see that change, for the glory of God and for the ultimate good of our communities.
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God's "Plan A" for bringing hope, healing, restoration, and new life is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is through multiplying communities of disciples who make much of Jesus that this gospel transformation can spread.
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While there are already hundreds of churches in Pike County, even if every house of worship was full each Sunday, there still wouldn't be enough space to hold the population of this county or the large proportion of individuals and families who commute here. The reality is that, if we want to see more lives changed by the gospel and communities of disciples grow, Pike County needs more churches on mission.
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By God's grace, we hope to see a lifestyle of worship and disciple-making become the norm and change the trajectory of hearts, homes, and lives in this region. We want to see families reaching families, students reaching students, coworkers reaching coworkers, neighbors reaching neighbors all throughout the mountains. We want to see disciples make disciples.
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It is our desire to see God glorified in Eastern Kentucky through gospel transformation for generations to come, and we are planting Glory Church in pursuit of that prayer.
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