Don Gordon
Role at Yates: Senior Pastor
Date started on staff: March 2002
What I love about Yates:
This is easy: low conflict, high involvement.
Also: great diversity, strong unity, without uniformity.
Family: Married to Elizabeth for 26 years.
Sarah is a student at Campbell Divinity School and is working as a Children's Ministry Intern at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh.
Hannah is a junior at NC State, majoring in Public Relations and minoring in Political Science.
Rebekah is a senior at Jordan High School and a member of their girls' volleyball team.
Education:
West Forsyth High School, Clemmons, NC 1979
Campbell University, Mathematics 1983
N.C. State University, Graduate School in Math 1985
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, M. Div. 1988
Columbia Theological Seminary, D. Min. 1999
For fun I enjoy:
Watching ACC basketball games with my family
Chaperoning my daughters' slumber parties
Traveling with my family around the country
Reading good books
Running, swimming, exercising, golf, and tennis
Cooking homemade buttermilk biscuits
Favorite Bible passage:
"Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all."
Mark 10:43-44
Favorite movies:
1. Wizard of Oz
2. Sound of Music
Tied for 3rd: A Beautiful Mind, Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Ghandi, Jesus of Nazareth, Judgment at Nuremberg.
Favorite restaurant:
The Loop in Chapel Hill
Favorite books (after the Bible):
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Prayer, Richard Foster
Favorite team:
Jordan Girls' Varsity Volleyball
Previous job people should know about:
I loaded trucks for UPS on the midnight shift during seminary.
Favorite donuts: Dunkin
