Rusty Williams - Senior Pastor
Biography
John David “Rusty” Williams is at First United Methodist Church for his twenty-sixth year of Appointed Ministry. He has served Cleo Springs, Granite/Carter/Willow, the Wesley Foundation at OSU, Wesley in Shawnee, and Good Shepherd in Yukon. Prior to ministry, Pastor Rusty taught in Broken Arrow High School.
Pastor Rusty was born in Muskogee and grew up in Braggs. He attended Northeastern State in Tahlequah where he met and later married Shirley Goss. Shirley has taught wherever Rusty was appointed and is now retired. They have two children. Amanda Palafox and husband T.D. are in Chantilly, Virginia, where they are managers for Walgreens. Seth is a student at Oklahoma City University.
After doing graduate work at the University of Tulsa, Pastor Rusty finally answered his call to ministry and graduated from Phillips Theological Seminary in Enid.
Rusty’s hobbies include gardening, lawn care, walking, reading, country cooking, and perusing maps and house plan books.
Rusty’s personal creed for many years has been, “I can trust in the real presence of the Risen Lord.”
pastorrusty@fumcmuskogee.org
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