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'''Parents''':<br>

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James and Betty Jo Preston

James and Betty Jo Preston

}}'''Daniel James Preston''', known as '''Dan Preston''' (born August 5, 1974),<ref>Daniel James Preston, 49 - Lubbock, TX, (mylife.com), accessed November 20, 2023.</ref> is the senior pastor at Bethany Baptist Church in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. He has been since 2015 the pastor of the Independent Baptist congregation located at the intersection of 40th Street and Quaker Avenue. He is the fourth pastor of Bethany, which was organized in August 1973, a year before Preston's birth, by pastor [[Ross Spencer]]. He followed the previous pastor, [[Aaron Denson]], who moved to the Arden Road Baptist Church in [[Amarillo]].

}}'''Daniel James Preston''', known as '''Dan Preston''' (born August 5, 1974),<ref>Daniel James Preston, 49 - Lubbock, TX, (mylife.com), accessed November 20, 2023.</ref> is the senior pastor at Bethany Baptist Church, an Independent [[Baptist]] congregation located at the intersection of 40th Street and Quaker Avenue in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. He has been the Bethany pastor since September 2015, the fourth person in the position. He followed pastor [[Aaron Denson]], who moved to the Arden Road Baptist Church in [[Amarillo]]. Bethany was organized in August 1973, a year before Preston's birth, by pastor [[Ross Spencer]].

Preston was born to James and Betty Jo Preston in Effingham in south central [[Illinois]]. His father became a pastor in Cortez, a small municipality in Montezuma County in northern [[Colorado]], when Dan was in the fifth grade. Preston converted to [[Jesus Christ]] in 1983 at the age of eight. He surrendered to the ministry at the age of eleven while he was attending summer camp at Silver State Baptist Youth Camp in Sedalia in Douglas County, Colorado, located north of [[Colorado Springs]]. He graduated from high school in Cortez and attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], at which he completed undergraduate studies.<ref name=info>{{Information | Bethany Baptist Church (churchstillworks.org), accessed November 21, 2023.</ref>

Preston was born to James and Betty Jo Preston in Effingham in south central [[Illinois]]. His father became a pastor in Cortez, a small municipality in Montezuma County in northern [[Colorado]], when Dan was in the fifth grade. Preston converted to [[Jesus Christ]] in 1983 at the age of eight. He surrendered to the ministry at the age of eleven while he was attending summer camp at Silver State Baptist Youth Camp in Sedalia in Douglas County, Colorado, located north of [[Colorado Springs]]. He graduated from high school in Cortez and attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], at which he completed undergraduate studies.<ref name=info>{{Information | Bethany Baptist Church (churchstillworks.org), accessed November 21, 2023.</ref>