Our Staff.
Senior Pastor - Jason Owens
Pastor Jason Owens is a native of Marietta, Georgia, and serves as the Senior Pastor at Dogwood Church in Athens, Texas. Pastor Jason previously served as Pastor at First Baptist Church in Norfolk, Nebraska, and as Senior Pastor at Fork Baptist in Fork, South Carolina.
He separated from the United States Air Force in 2013 after serving as a network intelligence analyst and subsequently worked as a Department of Defense contractor in Afghanistan, Maryland, Virginia, and Florida.
Jason was ordained in 2021 within the Southern Baptist. He completed his undergraduate work and seminary at Liberty University (Go Flames!) and is currently working on his Doctor of Ministry at Andersonville Theological Seminary.
Dedicated to global missions, Jason serves as a board member for Love Worth Sharing International, a 501c3 ministry that has educated and fed children in Haiti since 1998.
Worship Leader - Nathan Anderson
Children’s Ministry - Cody and Tasha Parnell (Interim)
Youth Ministry - Michael and Jennifer Hannigan
Michael and Jennifer Hannigan have been serving the children and youth of Dogwood Church for more than a decade. Michael is a longtime journalist and public servant who has a knack for seeing God at work in the everyday, while Jennifer, a speech teacher at Trinity Valley Community College, has a gift for encouraging young people to find their voice -- literally and figuratively. They believe youth ministry isn’t about big programs or perfect answers, but about sharing life and walking with students as they figure out who God is and what that means for them. Sometimes that looks like deep conversations, sometimes it’s just pizza and games, but either way, they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
