About Us

We are a welcoming body of believers that desire to glorify God, proclaiming the gospel of Christ, making disciples and loving God. 

Our Pastor

Nathan Martin is a bi-vocational pastor serving Crossville Baptist Church as well as teaching at Bunker K-12 school.   Pastor Nathan and his wife Ashley have been married since 2013 and have one son, Silas.   Pastor Nathan is a native of the Bunker area and graduated from Bunker school where he now teaches (12 years).  Pastor Nathan holds degrees from Mineral Area College (A.A. teaching), Central Methodist University (B.S. education), Park University (M.Ed. education leadership).  Pastor Nathan served at First Baptist Church as Music Director, Sunday School teacher and Discipleship Training teacher.  Pastor Nathan has been gifted teaching abilities and is devoted to the expositional teaching of God’s Word, feeding the church.

Pastor Job Description

We are part of the Dent County Baptist Association, located in southeastern Missouri. 

Responsibilities of our pastor are to work to advance the Great Commission through work carried out by shepherding the local church. Accomplishing this requires faithful, accurate Bible teaching, preaching, evangelism, outreach, and mission work. 

A born-again believing male who agrees with and practices the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Meets the Biblical requirements for a pastor (1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9, 1 Peter 5:1-4). 

Bunker is very rural, as such, Crossville pastor is bivocational.