Return engagement: Jaggers is pastor at Cape church for second time in his life

Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Rev. Dean Jaggers is the pastor at First General Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau for the second time in his life. After having served the church from 1977 to 1980, Jaggers and his wife, Hazel, received a call in 2007 asking them to return. "We were semiretired living in the Tampa, Fla., area when the call came," Jaggers said. Deacon Jerry Wilson told Jaggers the church needed an interim pastor. Jaggers and Hazel decided, after much prayer and consideration, that it was God's will for them to return to Cape Girardeau. A few months after returning, the church asked them to serve indefinitely, and they accepted. Jaggers said the church is growing "numerically, spiritually and with a passion to evangelistically reach more unchurched folks in the Cape Girardeau area."

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