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Jerry Turner
Music Director
Biography
Jerry Turner serves as Music Director at Macland Baptist Church. Beginning music ministry in 1978, Jerry served three churches in Smyrna, Georgia before coming to Macland in the spring of 2002. He has conducted more than twenty Christmas Cantatas and Easter productions, originated and led numerous Thanksgiving gatherings, 4th of July celebrations, and other special services. He now leads an adult choir that numbers more than seventy, and has been instrumental in developing a two-choir system to accommodate the dual morning worship services held at Macland each Sunday. Along with other music leadership, Jerry has been involved in the development of a church orchestra, and has overseen the addition of several new musical instruments used in worship. He is an accomplished musician and vocalist, and is gifted in many styles of music. He has shown a special gift in continuing the Southern Gospel tradition at Macland. Jerry was previously ordained as a deacon. He and his wife Laquita have two grown children, Kinzie Turner Bader and B. J.
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