Pastor Slayden & Staff pic
Pastor Linzy & Carla Slayden 

Rev. Linzy & Carla Slayden
Senior Pastor

Senior Pastor Linzy Slayden, Jr. was called to pastor Friendship Baptist Church the third week of July in 1992. His experiences as a youth director, music director and associate pastor helped to prepare him to pastor this rapidly growing church. Pastor Slayden was born in Moline, IL and raised in the Quad-Cities area until moving to the small farming community of Cambridge in his junior high years. It was here that he graduated from High School, and met and married his high school sweetheart, Carla.