Off 2010-2012, Bishop Goodpaster try brand new President of your own Council out of Bishops. ———————— He had been produced from inside the Memphis, Tennessee. He invested their very early young people from inside the Crenshaw, Mississippi, before swinging with his relatives to northern Indiana. The guy generated his B. A good. studies out of Millsaps College, up coming went to Candler College or university of Theology from the Emory University inside Atlanta, Georgia, in which he received an Yards. Div. knowledge. Larry try ordained good deacon throughout the former Northern Mississippi Fulfilling of the Bishop Edward J. Pendergrass. Stokes. The guy received his D. Min. training out-of Candler College or university off Theology.
Through to researching his Yards. Div. studies, Larry supported multiple visits into the Mississippi, together with an appointment once the an area Superintendent of your Tupelo Section. During his election towards episcopacy, he had been Elderly Pastor of one’s First United Methodist Chapel in the Tupelo, Mississippi. He was as well as a member of work Force you to delivered regarding the 1988 merger of your own former North Mississippi Conference, together with Mississippi Fulfilling, inducing the latest Mississippi Fulfilling.