Joel Breidenbaugh has served as the senior pastor of First Baptist Sweetwater in Longwood, Florida since 2008. He has also served as an Assistant Professor of Homiletics for Liberty University School of Divinity since 2007. Joel is a graduate of both the Baptist College of Florida (B.A.) and a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Ph.D.). Joel's main passions in ministry are preaching God's Word to the local church, training others called to ministry, research and writing, and spreading the gospel through missions. Joel and his wife, Annthea, have five children. They love traveling and watching their kids in their sporting events.