Our Staff

Pastor Pearson

Pastor Chuck Pearson was saved while serving in the U.S. Navy, on the USS JF Kennedy, in December of 1986 at the age of 22. Returning to the Tidewater area he immediately became involved in a small local church where he was able to grow in the Christ-centered emphasis of God’s Word. Faithful witnessing to his girlfriend led to the salvation of Cathy Hill, who would later become Cathy Pearson in April of 1989.

Soon Chuck was called to preach and began attending Tabernacle Baptist Bible College for his formal training. His immediate heart was for his New England home, and he prepared with that in mind. Meanwhile, the Lord had led him to leave the Navy, and he began contract work as an electrical engineer.

As the Lord would have it his church merged with Tidewater Baptist Temple and soon thereafter he left engineering and came on staff. While he finished his degree and did his Master’s work, he also began teaching Bible College Classes. The Lord was working in his heart with the knowledge that a need is not necessarily a calling and was moving his heart away from New England. In October of 2004, the church called Pastor Pearson as the Senior Pastor of Tidewater Baptist Temple. 

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Jon James

Jon James is the youth minister at Tidewater Baptist Church in Chesapeake, Virginia. He was raised in Detroit, Michigan and came to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 15. Jon works full-time as a Human Resource Analyst for Xerox Cooperation and has served as the youth minister at Tidewater Baptist Church since the year 2001. Jon met his wife Kitty at Tidewater Baptist Church in 1999, and they married in 2001. In 2002, the Lord blessed the James family with a son, Noah, whom they homeschool.

Jacob Mckinney

Jacob McKinney is a youth minister at Tidewater Baptist Church and primarily works with the senior teens from 9th to 12th grade. He was blessed to have been raised in a Christian family and was saved at the age of twelve. He is currently finishing his senior year in Bible college and working toward God’s calling on his life to be in full-time ministry. Jacob married his high school sweetheart Shera, and they have been happily married for five years. Shera had the wonderful opportunity of being raised as a pastor’s daughter and like her husband, was also saved at the age of twelve. God has blessed them with a beautiful son named Ryland, and they are expecting another son in November of 2014. Their desire and prayer is that God would use them for His glory, and that He would enable them to make an impact in the lives of the young people at Tidewater Baptist Church.