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Bro. Joshua Drye was born and raised in Carlisle, Arkansas, where he attended Landmark Missionary Baptist church with his family. He was Saved & baptized in 1996, and the Lord has had a strong hold on his heart ever since. Bro. Drye surrendered to the ministry on November 13, 2005 and accepted his first pastorate in June of 2008.

As a man of many interests, he enjoys a variety of hobbies that include fishing, hunting, soil preservation, farming, gardening & firearms, to name a few. His deepest passion however, has always been learning and is forever a student of God’s Word. He studied at Little Rock Missionary Baptist Seminary & Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received an Associate of Science Degree from the University of Arkansas. He married his loving wife in 2011 and they have two wonderful children.

John was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a child John and his family attended Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Birta, Arkansas where John was saved and baptized. He learned to sing from his mother and grandmother in Sunday School, and later with other family members in the church choir. When he was 12, he family moved to Romance, Arkansas to join a mission there. John, his sister Rebecca, and brother Jesse began singing as a trio or quartet with their mother. They made many trips to Bible School seminars, youth rallies, revivals, and other churches singing old-fashioned 4-part hymns, as well as some newer arrangements and original songs by John and Jesse. They also partnered with the West sisters from Des Arc and sang together as the group “New Life.” Later, they met future brother-in-law Joshua West on a trip to Northwest Arkansas and began playing with him as a bluegrass group.

John attended Arkansas Tech University and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, majoring in Music Education. During this time he married his lovely wife Amanda. Though a time in retail sales sidelined his music work, he was able to renew his focus when he, Amanda, and their 4 wonderful children moved back to Central Arkansas in 2017. John plays several musical instruments and enjoys arranging songs for worship services and teaching music to his daughters.