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DR. ROCKY RAMSEY
Senior Pastor
Rocky Ramsey has been the senior pastor of Corryton Church for the past 25 years. During his tenure, the church has more than quadrupled in size even though it is still located ten miles from the nearest highway. The church has also added over fifty acres of property to the campus and completed over six million dollars of renovations and additions.
Rocky lost his father to cancer before he turned five and eventually become an angry young rebel. A three-sport all-star, he discovered that the trophies, the reckless living…all that the world had to offer, did not satisfy the deepest longings of his heart. Through the influence of some friends, he discovered that what his heart longed for most could only be satisfied by a personal relationship with the God he was made for. Rocky came to Christ and eventually gave up college basketball to do what He was made to do: help others.
Rocky has a business degree from UT Knoxville and graduate degrees from Mid-America and Luther Rice Seminaries. He has been married to his wife, Betsy, for 30 years. Their oldest daughter Sarah and her husband Houston are the parents of grandson Brady Qualls. Their younger daughter Emily is married to Matt Windham.