Meet The Pastor
Sr. Pastor Dr. Grant Ethridge
Dr. Grant Ethridge is the Senior Pastor of Libertylive.church in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He holds six academic degrees, including a Doctor of Ministry and a Doctor of Divinity. He served as President of the National SBC Pastors’ Conference, as President of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, as President of the SBC of Virginia, and on many other state and national boards and agencies.
Dr. Ethridge became Senior Pastor at Liberty in 2006. Since that time, the church has baptized over 5,900 people and has been recognized in the Top 100 Fastest Growing / Largest Churches in the U.S. Liberty is a multiethnic, multigenerational, multisite church, with locations in Hampton, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Williamsburg, and Smithfield, Virginia. In 2017, Liberty launched LibertyLive.Online, a new online worship experience.
Dr. Ethridge and his wife, Tammy, have four children and eight grandchildren. They have one son, Christian, who went to be with the Lord June 4, 1992.