Who We Are
Logan Hargis, Lead Pastor
Anissa Bowling, Church Secretary
Dustin Rader, Associate Pastor
Logan was born and raised in Somerset and has lived here his entire life. He and his wife Rachel have been married since 2018 and have one son, Theo. Logan graduated with a Bachelor's of History from Eastern Kentucky University in 2012 and he is currently working on a Masters from Missionary Baptist Seminary. He has been at LSBC since 2014 and his priority in his capacity as pastor of Langdon Street is to see people grow closer to Jesus, and to mobilize people for Jesus' mission to take the gospel to all the world starting right here in our own communities.
Dustin Rader, Associate Pastor
Anissa Bowling, Church Secretary
Dustin Rader, Associate Pastor
Dustin was born and raised in Somerset but has not always lived here. He's lived and ministered in Lancaster, Lexington, and even in the country of Belize. He returned to the Somerset area in 2012.
He and his wife Brooke have been married since 2006. They welcomed our first child Urijah in 2014 and their twin daughters Madison and Marley in 2019.
His ministry began at a young age. He was 18 years old when he began to feel the call to ministry. In 2005 he went to the country of Belize as a Missionary Helper where I taught in the mission’s Christian School and helped establish Church meetings in the different villages surrounding our central mission location in the village of Sarteneja. After returning from the mission field he began his studies at Cumberland Baptist Institute.
Shortly thereafter he accepted his first official ministry position serving youth at a local Baptist Church, Pastored a Church in Lexington Kentucky, and then returned to the Somerset area in 2012 to serve as Pastor of Children’s Ministries at East Somerset Baptist Church before returning to his Home Church at Langdon Street.
He started as a part time Associate Pastor in late 2017. It wasn’t until 2023 that he came on as the full time Associate Pastor. Over the years in ministry his heart became firmly planted in a few core ministries within the Church. He loves to minister to children and lead them toward Jesus at the most vulnerable yet formidable time of their lives.
It is imperative to the health of a Church to invest and pour our hearts into the next generation. This extends into Student ministry which is another area he loves to serve in. As students leave the Children’s ministry they enter another stage of life where suddenly they are faced with big concepts, questions, and decisions that can shape the trajectory of their life for years to come.
In all of this his desire is to lead our next generation into a deeper relationship with Jesus with the hopes that their lives continue to be shaped by their relationship with Christ.
One of his other favorite ministries is our Worship Ministry. He believes one of the central themes of scripture is for every heart and mind to be drawn toward worship of the God of all creation and that only happens through submission to name and person of Jesus. When he gets the opportunity to lead worship, he does his best to blend the young and the old, the new and the traditional, to allow each heart and mind an opportunity to be drawn closer to God in preparation for the message from God’s word.
Anissa Bowling, Church Secretary
Anissa Bowling, Church Secretary
Anissa Bowling, Church Secretary
Our Beliefs
American Baptist Association Doctrinal Statement
1. We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent (Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34, 35; John 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5).
2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice (Psalm 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17).
3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection (Matt. 28:19).
4. We believe in the Genesis account of Creation (Gen. 1; 2).
5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev. 20:10).
6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:18-20; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22).
7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19).
8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches (Luke 24:49; John 14:16, 17; Acts 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4).
9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts (1 Cor. chapters 12-14).
10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12, 19).
11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe (Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2).
12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints (Matt. 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18).
13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age (John 14:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15; Rev. 21:8).
14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9), and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer (John 3:6; John 16:8, 9; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5).
15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish (John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5).
16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12).
17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament churches only, and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches (Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21).
18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance (Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20, 26).
19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.
20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches (Matt. 20:25-28).
21. We believe the Biblical definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman (Gen. 2:21-24; Mat. 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Cor. 7:2-4; Eph. 5:22-31)