Cope resigns from Fairburn Baptist

Cope resigns

from Fairburn Baptist

Dr. Oscar T.

Cope has resigned as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fairburn after

19 years of service. He will become Associated Missionary of the Western

Baptist Association on April 1. The association is composed of 54 churches

in Coweta, Heard and Meriwether counties.

Cope has served

as chairman of the Georgia Baptist Executive Committee for two years and

as vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He has served as

moderator of the Fairburn Baptist Association, Noonday Baptist Association,

and the Mount Vernon Association. He is currently a member-at-large of

the state executive committee. Cope recently spent several days at the

Tri-State Crematory in Walker County as a chaplain through the Georgia

Baptist Disaster Relief.

He also serves

as a chaplain in the Civil Air Patrol in the rank of Lt. Colonel. He has

served two years as Georgia Wing Chaplain and is now Deputy Wing Chaplain

for the Southeast Region, Civil Air Patrol.

Before coming

to Fairburn Baptist in 1983, Cope served as pastor of the Milford Baptist

Church of Marietta for more than eight years and pastored the Brown Memorial

Baptist Church of Wrightsville for more than four years.

Cope and his

wife, Glennie, have been married 38 years. They have two children and

four grandchildren.

The Copes will

continue to reside in the Fairburn area.

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