{"id":209,"date":"2020-05-20T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:48:16","slug":"our-leaders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/?page_id=209","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pastor Randy Keiss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:34% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"518\" src=\"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/laurarandy-e1591112995953.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534 size-full\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/laurarandy-e1591112995953.jpg 580w, http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/laurarandy-e1591112995953-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Randy is the son of Vernon and Sue Keiss and is a lifelong resident of Watson, Oklahoma.&nbsp; He was raised in Sulphur Springs Missionary Baptist Church in Watson, Oklahoma where he was born again and baptized at the age of&nbsp; 7.&nbsp; Randy graduated from Smithville High School in 1987.&nbsp; He married his wife Laura (Davis) Keiss in 1990.&nbsp; Laura was raised in Mena, Arkansas in the Catholic faith. &nbsp;She was born again and baptized at the age of 18.&nbsp; They have two daughters and sons in law:&nbsp; Brooke (Keiss) Carter and husband Cameron and Brandi (Keiss) Routh and husband Alec.&nbsp; Randy surrendered to preach and was ordained into the ministry in 2002 at the age of 33.&nbsp; He has served as Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church of Octavia since 2004.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deacon Vernon Keiss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Vernon Keiss and his wife, Sue, are lifelong residents of the Watson\/Smithville area. They have been married since 1962.&nbsp; Vernon was born again and baptized at the age of 13 and Sue at the age of 16.&nbsp; Vernon was ordained as a Deacon in 1995 at Sulphur Springs Missionary Baptist Church and has served as a Deacon at Trinity since July 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"956\" src=\"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277-1024x956.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-771 size-full\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277-1024x956.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277-768x717.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277-1536x1433.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vernon-scaled-e1593452133277.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Randy Keiss Randy is the son of Vernon and Sue Keiss and is a lifelong resident of Watson, Oklahoma.&nbsp; He was raised in Sulphur Springs Missionary Baptist Church in Watson, Oklahoma where he was born again and baptized at the age of&nbsp; 7.&nbsp; Randy graduated from Smithville High School in 1987.&nbsp; He married his wife Laura (Davis) Keiss in 1990.&nbsp; Laura&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}