First Baptist Church of Vinita

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Skip McClain - Associate Pastor Education/Senior Adult Ministry

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   Brother Skip grew up at Ketchum, Oklahoma and was baptized into First Baptist Church of Ketchum upon accepting Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord at the age of ten.  After completing an Associate of Arts Degree at Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College in Miami, Oklahoma (1969) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (1971), he earned a Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Oklahoma (1974).

   While working as a Social Worker at Eastern State Hospital and attending First Baptist Church of Vinita, Brother Skip felt the Lord’s leading to pursue the call to be a Pastor that he had first felt in childhood.  He recommitted his life to that call in 1989, was licensed to preach by FBC and was called to his first pastorate at Mt. Zion Baptist Church near Miami, Oklahoma in 1991.  He was called to be Pastor of Bunker Hill Baptist Church near Vinita in 1994 where he served until his call to join the staff at FBC Vinita in April 2008.

   He and his wife Carol have two children and one grandchild.  Their son Jeremy,  wife Chenelle, and grandson Rylan live in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.  Their daughter Courtney lives in Moore, Oklahoma.