Roger Ball

Roger was the Senior Pastor at FBC for almost 40 years and now continues to serve as Pastor Emeritus. He began attending FBC in August 1984 as an associate pastor and became Senior Pastor in November 1990. In August of 2023 Roger transitioned to Managing Pastor with the duties of overseeing the church and church staff and on August 1, 2024 he stepped into the role of Pastor Emeritus. In addition to his pastoral duties at FBC, Roger also teaches in the various Masters’ and Doctoral classes at Phoenix Seminary and has served as Director of Mentoring at Phoenix Seminary. Local, national and international ministry for Roger has included school boards, compassion ministries, para-church work, conference speaking and Bible teaching. In the last couple of decades many men and women were launched into full-time ministry by FBC-Tempe through various training programs called Pastor-in-Training, Leader-in-Training and Missionary-in-Training. Any willing person can serve God. See our Mentoring Leaders web page. Roger and his wife, Dianna, have two daughters, Sharon and Sharmon. Roger is an Arizona native and enjoys carpentry, fishing and dreaming.

Doctor of Ministry and Resident Professor at Phoenix Seminary teaching classes in Masters and Doctoral degree programs.

You can reach Dr. Ball at 480-839-0926 or via email at rball@fbc-tempe.org

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