ABOUT US
B. Lee McDowell is the president of Lee McDowell Christian Ministries, a preaching teaching, discipleship-making ministry. Having been a pastor for over 30 years, his various experiences have given him a broad perspective of Life as a Christian.
Lee and his wife, Barbara, have 2 children and four grandchildren.
Born into a family of educators - 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, both father and mother, sister, uncle and aunt -- the author ultimately set his sights on other fields and became first a professional golfer and later a salesman. But God had different ideas eventually.
With a father who was a college tennis player and later a football - basketball - track coach, Lee was involved in athletics from an early age. With an injury changing his athletic plans he became a golfer, ultimately winning the Texas State Amateur Championship, playing on the Texas A&M University golf team, then becoming an assistant golf professional at Ridglea CC in Ft. Worth, Texas. And, lastly he played on the PGA Tour for a couple of years.
In his late twenties, he became a salesman, and then manager/vice-president of the world's largest small-boat dealership in Houston, Texas, Louis DelHomme Marine.
But in 1981, God called Lee and his wife, Barbara, to a life of ministry. While a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, he served alongside Pastor Frank Whitaker at Lawn Terrace Baptist Church in Mineral Wells, TX. Later, God placed Lee is various ministerial positions, first serving as Bus Minister - Children's Church Pastor & Minister of Evangelism at Sagemont Church in Houston under Pastor John Morgan. Following that, he pastored Cranes Mill Baptist Church in Canyon Lake, TX, then the First Baptist Church/Spring Branch in Houston, and Anchor Baptist Church in Houston.
Life changed in 2003 when Lee suffered a major heart attack. In a few years God then had him serving in part-time pastoral roles in Muldoon, TX, and finally in Nacogdoches, TX.
On his 70th birthday, God moved Lee into writing books and blogs. And from an encounter 20 years before at a men's retreat where Lee got the idea of doing ministry at a local park on Sunday mornings, he has been going to Festival Park in Nacogdoches for over 5 years now, having begun "Christ In The Park" in September, 2015.