Associate Pastor Duane is the Associate Pastor of Shepherding, Children and Evangelism Ministry. Pastor Duane Lawrence serves as Associate Pastor of Children and Youth Ministries at Living Word Fellowship Church. He is the Founder/Director of Train Up A Child Seminars, and has taught a Teacher Training Tract at the College of Biblical Studies (Houston).

Pastor Lawrence conducts training sessions for teachers who teach children in variouschild related ministries, as well as conducting parenting seminars. He has been doing this for more than 25 years. Brother Lawrence has served as Assistant to the Pastor and Children’s Pastor at Mount Corinth Baptist Church, A. Louis Patterson, Jr., Pastor, for 20 years. He has served as a former staff member for Child Evangelism Fellowship (Houston), has served as a Workshop Leader for Children’s Pastors Conference, Nashville, Tennessee; served as a Workshop Leader for TEACH (formerly Houston Area Christian Educators); and a Teacher Training Team Member for Children’s Ministry Seminars.

Pastor Lawrence is married to his “high school sweetheart” Bobbie and they are the parents of two wonderful sons, Daniel Michael and David Matthew. About the EvangelismMinistry The Evangelism Ministry’s goal is to proclaim the historical, biblical Christ as Savior and Lord in the community and the world, with the intent of persuading people to come to know Jesus Christ personally and then be reconciled to God.