Austin began serving as lead pastor at Highland Park in February of 2023. Austin is originally from Suwanee, GA and met his wife Emily while attending college at Valdosta State University in South GA. Austin and Emily were married in June of 2009 and have four children: Annie Ruth, Everett, Elias, and Lydia. Austin graduated…

Jay Wollmann has been at Highland Park since October 2011. Jay is a native of Louisville and grew up worshipping and serving at Highview Baptist Church. He was led to Christ by his father at the age of eight and then baptized in the sixth grade. He began to sense a calling to full-time ministry…

Matthan McQueen is our Associate Pastor of Students and Discipleship. He graduated from Indiana State University with a BS degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing prior to moving to Louisville to attend Southern Seminary.  While attending Southern, Matt began leading 6th through 12th-grade ministries at HPFBC in 2000.  Upon completion of his Master of Divinity in…

Edward A. Wasson was born in Arlington Virginia on April 22, 1963. The youngest of three sons Ed committed his life to Christ at Sullivan First Baptist Church, he graduated High School in 1981 and went into the US Navy serving four years as an Avionics Electronics technician. He was discharged in 1985 and went…