User:Rev. Roger L. Ball

 Rev. Roger L. Ball  (born December 7,1947 in Council, Buchanan County, VA) is the founder and pastor of Faith Baptist Tabernacle of Bristol, Tennessee, as well as a former original member of the Mountain Gospel Singers and a musician of all staring instrumentalists.



 Biography : 

Roger L. Ball attended Vance Jr. High, U.S. Academy of Investigation and the Bristol Tech School in Bristol Tennessee studying architecture and building mechanics.

At the young age of nine years old Ball first public performance was 1956 with his cousin Author Thurman (AT) Ryder band The Rockets at The Bristol Paramount Theater and later on in his teen-age years performing occasionally with other bands up and down the northeastern coast.

In 1972 -2015 started a local freelance company dealing with all type of flooding and home interior remodeling.

Ball was ordained into the deaconship by Gary Garland at Freedom Baptist Church, Bristol, TN 1992. On the day June 28, 1998 he was ordained into the ministry as pastor by Howell Osborne at Grace Bible Fellowship. In the year of 2000 went on to pastor Faith Baptist Tabernacle of Bristol, Tennessee. In 2014-2019 He was once again with Freedom Baptist church in Bristol, Virginia as acting assistant pastor until retirement.

 Hobbies: 

Wood carvings and building music instruments his been joy as part of his lifetime hobbies as well others. As a young man Amateur ''astronomy was a hobby he dearly loved. Joining up with the Bristol Astronomy Club located at the King College, Bristol, Tennessee 1982-2014. Ball'' enjoy observing celestial objects as astronomical events where visible using his 10.1 telescope. He was a participant in amateur astronomer scientific research and contributed to the public in performing expedition. He worked with the B.A.C with the filming of the comet and Jupiter encounter (Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 in year 1994) also reported information with the Alpo (Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers) in the Lunar, Comet and Mars research programs 1980’s.

In his retirement years he is spending more time with his wife “Wanda Julia Ball” and family and enjoying life in the Slow Lane.