![]() Responding to fires is only about 25 percent of the emergency calls his department responds to. The job has changed a lot, he said, especially the additional emergency services that fire departments now provide. And the field continues to be a family affair, as Dwight’s son Seth is now a career firefighter in Greenville, S.C. ![]() He became interested in fire service because it seemed exciting and he wanted to spend more time with his father. In total, he has served with four different fire departments since completing his training, and became fire chief in Corinth in March of 2020. His father was a Navy firefighter, and two of his cousins also were involved with the fire service.Įasler began his fire training as a teenager in the late 1980s and would go on to serve the local fire department in Youngsville, N.C., while attending Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Easler was personally a part of responding to more than 200 of those calls.įor Easler, an interest in fire service started from a young age. Last year the Corinth Fire Department responded to more than 400 emergency calls within both its rural community and other neighboring districts. It has also taught me lessons about relationships and leadership.”Įasler said his role as fire chief is mainly an administrative and leadership role, but he will often be a part of a team responding to an emergency call in the district. “I can go back to the church and talk about these needs I see. “As a pastor, it gives me the opportunity to be outside of the church world and see what the community is really going through,” Easler said. I see this as an extension of ministry for me.”īeing in the fire service has also helped Easler in his ministry. ![]() “Many of these relationships have resulted in gospel conversations. Them seeing a pastor outside of the church world gives an opportunity to be there for them when they struggle. Over the years you pick up a first-name basis with these people in the community. “I’ve met people, and developed relationships with people outside of the church. It took him shouting ‘I Burned a Bible’ several times before they stopped cheering and realized they’d been had – they aggressively threw us out but we had a chance to disgust them with a kiss before we left.“It has been a way to not only serve people, but also meet people and share the gospel with both people in the community and fellow firefighters,” Easler said. “Video of us as my husband throws a Bible in and declared he was saving Darwin’s Origin of the Species and Fahrenheit 451 as he held them up to the crowd. “Husband and I went to a book burning in Mount Juliet Tennessee Thursday, before joining atheist and pagan counter protesters across the street playing Highway to Hell and Harry Potter on a projector,” the description read. The man’s partner uploaded the video to YouTube and described their counter-protest in the video’s description. In the midst of the book-burning fervor, one counter-protester showed up on the scene and threw a bible into the fire. “I ain’t messing with witches no more, I ain’t messing with witchcraft … I ain’t messing with demons … I’ll call all of them out in the name of Jesus Christ.” Before the burning started, Locke gave a sermon where he said that he was fighting the “Free Mason devils,” adding that he “ain’t gonna be suiciding myself no time soon”. The event drew a large crowd in the Nashville suburb of Mt.
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