Keys welcomes Pastor, Author Barry Stallings

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Barry Stallings was born Franklin Glenn Stallings on August 25, 1968, to the late Claudious Albert “Bud” Stallings, Jr. and the late Sankie Glenn Stallings. After his parents divorced in 1974, he and his older brother Jay resided with their mother in their hometown of Mount Olive, NC.

After graduating from Southern Wayne High School in 1986, Barry attended Lenoir Community College in Kinston, NC to study Radio and TV Broadcasting. He landed his first radio job at WSSG-AM in Goldsboro, which led him later into Christian Radio at the former WFXN-AM in 1989; followed by his Christian television career at what is now WHFL-TV in Goldsboro, NC which began in 1992.

After answering the call to Pastoral Ministry in 1995 Barry went on to pastor Riverside Community FWB Church near Rocky Mount, NC from 1995-1999 while working full time at WHFL-TV. He has been serving as the Senior Pastor of Pleasant Grove Original FWB Church of Pikeville, NC since December 2003. He also serves on the Board of Directors of WHFL-TV 43 as Vice Chairman and has served on several boards and committees within the Original FWB denomination.

He also is a member of the National Religious Broadcasters and attends its annual convention each year. He is also a former Professor of Biblical Studies at Carolina Bible Institute and Seminary teaching a satellite class at his church in Pikeville.

In 2020 his first book and play, “A Christmas Gift for Esther,” was published by Palmer Publishing, a division of Free Will Baptist Press, Ayden, North Carolina.

Barry resides in Fremont, NC along with his wife Olivia. They have two daughters, Karen Stallings Terrell and husband Austin of Pikeville, NC, Katie Stallings of Fremont, NC and a grandson, Carter Glenn Terrell of Pikeville, NC.