St. John’s United Methodist Church will welcome a new pastor Sunday, Rev. John Sea-ton. His wife Reagan, also a Methodist minister, will pastor churches at Lexington and Blue. Their sons are Joshua, 8, and James, 6.
A native of Dublin, GA, a small town, Pastor John said his “eyes lit up” as he drove through Rockdale. “I saw little pieces of home,” he said.
He graduated with honors from Dublin High School in 2000, having played baritone in the band and on the golf team, and worked part-time for the parks and recreation department and writing sports for the community newspaper.
He graduated in 2005 from Georgia Southern where he was active in the Wesley Foundation campus ministry.
He received his Master of Divinity in 2009 from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY, where he met his wife Raegan, a native Texan. They married July 21, 2007 in The Woodlands, TX.
John served as pastor of Center UMC in Vidalia, GA where they welcomed their first son, Joshua on July 28, 2009. They moved to Texas where John’s first appointment was to restart the Wesley Foundation campus ministry at the University of Texas at Tyler.
He served four years as associate pastor of West University UMC in Houston where they welcomed their second son, James, Nov. 1, 2011.
In 2013, John was ordained an elder in the Texas Annual Conference. In 2015, he became pastor of Highlands UMC just east of Houston. At the same time, Raegan entered full-time ministry as associate pastor at St. Mark’s UMC, Baytown. They served the last three years in the Baytown/Highlands area where John has been a part of the Highlands Ministerial Alliance and Rotary Club.
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