Ben Avon Baptist is excited to welcome Pastor Shep Bevis and his family to our church. She graduated from Gardner Webb University in 1997 and went on to complete his education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and his wife, Amanda, have four children: Lauren, Anna, Drew, and Caroline. Both Shep and his wife are native to the upstate, they have lived in many different states planting churches and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. God recently led them back to Spartanburg and to Ben Avon Baptist in August of this year.