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'''Donald Dewayne Ohm''', known as '''Don Ohm''' (born August 8, 1947), is an Independent [[Baptist]] pastor in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who since May 1999 has led the Lighthouse Baptist Church, located at 10400 Broadway Avenue west of Interstate Loop 410 and northwest of the San Antonio International Airport.

'''Donald Dewayne Ohm''', known as '''Don Ohm''' (born August 8, 1947), is an Independent [[Baptist]] pastor in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who from May 1999 until April 2019, led the Lighthouse Baptist Church, located at 10400 Broadway Avenue west of Interstate Loop 410 and northwest of the San Antonio International Airport.

   

   

==Background==

==Background==

   

   

Ohm was reared in rural Latimer in Morris County northeast of [[Wichita]] in east central [[Kansas]]. He attended a one-room school until the eighth grade. He then graduated in 1965 from White City High School in White City in Morris County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classmates.com/people/Don-Ohm/124964771|title=Don Ohm (Class of 1965)|publisher=classmates.com|accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref> As a child, he attended the [[Lutheran Church]] but voiced his personal faith in [[Jesus Christ]] after reading a gospel tract in 1966, while he was serving in the [[United States Navy]] at Camp Lejeune, [[North Carolina]].<ref>Donald Ohm sermon, "Has Righteousness Changed", August 16, 2015.</ref> Ohm has been a clergyman for more than four decades in the United States and [[Canada]], having held previous  pastorates in [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]] (Temple Baptist Church); Redwood City and San Mateo, [[California]], and Longmont, [[Colorado]].<ref name=intelius/> From 1968 to 1970, he studied at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas; from 1972 to 1974, at Hyles-Anderson College,<ref name=linkedin/> which is operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond, [[Indiana]], a large Independent Baptist congregation. He also did pastoral studies at [[Louisiana Baptist University]] in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], dates of attendance missing.<ref name=intelius>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Donald&qmi=D&qn=Ohm&qcs=San+Antonio%2C+TX&focusfirst=1|title=Donald D. Ohm|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref>

Ohm was reared in poverty in rural Latimer in Morris County northeast of [[Wichita]] in east central [[Kansas]]. He attended a one-room school until the eighth grade. He then graduated in 1965 from White City High School in White City in Morris County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classmates.com/people/Don-Ohm/124964771|title=Don Ohm (Class of 1965)|publisher=classmates.com|accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref> As a child, he attended the [[Lutheran Church]] but voiced his personal faith in [[Jesus Christ]] after reading a gospel tract in 1966, while he was serving in the [[United States Navy]] at Camp Lejeune, [[North Carolina]].<ref>Donald Ohm sermon, "Has Righteousness Changed", August 16, 2015.</ref> Ohm has been a clergyman for more than four decades in the United States and [[Canada]], having held previous  pastorates in [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]] (Temple Baptist Church); Redwood City and San Mateo, [[California]], and Longmont, [[Colorado]].<ref name=intelius/> From 1968 to 1970, he studied at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas; from 1972 to 1974, at Hyles-Anderson College,<ref name=linkedin/> which is operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond, [[Indiana]], a large Independent Baptist congregation. He also did pastoral studies at [[Louisiana Baptist University]] in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], dates of attendance missing.<ref name=intelius>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Donald&qmi=D&qn=Ohm&qcs=San+Antonio%2C+TX&focusfirst=1|title=Donald D. Ohm|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref>

==Career==

==Career==

In 2017, Ohm self-published ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' a short anthology of letters of encouragement that he has penned over the years to missionaries worldwide.<ref>Don Ohm, ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' Lulu Publishing Services, 2017, pp. vii-86, ISBN 978-1-4834-6795-5.</ref>

In 2017, Ohm self-published ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' a short anthology of letters of encouragement that he has penned over the years to missionaries worldwide.<ref>Don Ohm, ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' Lulu Publishing Services, 2017, pp. vii-86, ISBN 978-1-4834-6795-5.</ref>

On June 10, 2018, Ohm announced to the congregation that he will retire as the Lighthouse senior pastor at the end of May 2019, by which time he will have led the church for twenty years. On January 20, 2019, in a 95 percent vote of the membership, Lighthouse church called Gregory Robert "Greg" Kern (born September 20, 1965) as Ohm's successor pastor. An [[Ohio]] native reared in [[Florida]], Kern is the  founding pastor of Faithway Baptist Church, an independent congregation, in Elk Grove in Sacramento County, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/gregory-kern/gregoryrobertkern|title=Gregory Kern|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 28, 2019}}</ref>

On June 10, 2018, Ohm announced to the congregation his retirement as the Lighthouse senior pastor at some point near the end of May 2019, by which time he would have led the church for twenty years. On January 20, 2019, in a 95 percent vote of the membership, Lighthouse church called Gregory Robert "Greg" Kern (born September 20, 1965) as Ohm's successor pastor. An [[Ohio]] native reared in [[Florida]], Kern is the  founding pastor of Faithway Baptist Church, an independent congregation, in Elk Grove in Sacramento County, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/gregory-kern/gregoryrobertkern|title=Gregory Kern|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 28, 2019}}</ref> Kern preached his first sermon at Lighthouse on April 28, 2019.

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