Mike Bush has accepted a call to be pastor of Trinidad Community Baptist Church in Roswell.
The church extended the call May 17. Bush’s first Sunday was May 24.
On Bush’s first Sunday, Woody Sizemore, chairman of the deacons, led in a pastor installation service. In the service, the church pledged to support the pastor, following his leadership, praying for him and his family, forgiving his mistakes and working with him as fellow laborers in the ministry. Bush pledged to love the church as a good shepherd, lead the church and faithfully proclaim God’s Word.
Bush responded to the commitments with remarks he titled “Focus on Christ,” based on Col. 3:1-17.
Bush, 61, a native of Roswell, received a bachelor of arts degree from New Mexico Sate University in 1975 and a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1980. After pastoring churches in Kirkland, Texas, and Winterhaven, Calif., Bush returned to New Mexico, where he served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Ruidoso Downs, from 1987-94.
He worked at the Roswell Daily Record from 1994 until 1998, when he and Gail Whitehead started Edgewood Community Church. Bush left Edgewood to become editor of the Daily Record in 2000 and continued to work for the Record until 2008. While working at the Record, Bush served as a supply preacher for various churches, mostly in the Pecos Valley Baptist Association, and also taught Sunday School and Discipleship Training classes at First Baptist Church.
Bush is a bivocational pastor. In addition to his church responsibilities, Bush has his own business, Content Services Inc., in which he works under contract to Triton Group, a local public relations firm. Bush also is editor of a new online news magazine, 575magazine.com.
He is married to the former Shala Warren and they have two children, Jennifer Foster, 30, of Austin, married to Jeremy Foster, and Jonathan Bush, 27, of Roswell; and one grandson, Iain Michael Foster, of Austin.