Chad Morrison is the new pastor at Clymersville Baptist Church in Rockwood.
His first Sunday in the pulpit was July 29.
“This is my first pastorate. It’s exciting, but I’m very nervous,” he said.
Morrison, 29, comes to Rockwood from Louisville in Blount County.
He and his wife Melissa have a son, Levi, 3.
Over the past nine years, Morrison has served as youth and family pastor at three different churches in Maryville and Kingston.