About The Author Carson Fender was called and ordained into the gospel ministry late in life where he served on the staff of Dr. O. S. Hawkins at the 10,000 member First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida as Minister of Adult Education and later as Minister to 1,800 Senior Adults. He served as an Associate Church Enrichment Missionary for the State Convention of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia while simultaneously serving as the Director of Missions for the 32 member churches of the New River Baptist Association in southwest Virginia. He has served other churches as pastor and also served as Intentional Interim Pastor. Semi-retired at the age of 79, he presently serves a bi-vocational church in the Panhandle of north Florida where he and his wife Martha of 54 years reside near their son, Daniel Fender and family, Daniel is also a pastor in the Panhandle of northwest Florida.