Baptist church calls transgender pastor
Members of an Ohio congregation invited the community to a September 8 worship service officially welcoming as its new pastor one of the few openly transgender Baptist ministers in the US.
Erica Saunders, a 2019 graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity ordained to the gospel ministry this spring by Wake Forest Baptist Church, began July 1 as pastor of Peace Community Church in Oberlin, Ohio, affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA.
Saunders began the process of changing her gender presentation during her first year of seminary.
