Lia Scholl, Pastor

Lia Scholl has been pastor of Wake Forest Baptist Church since August of 2014. Prior to that, she was the pastor of Gateway Christian Community in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia, and the Richmond Mennonite Fellowship in Richmond, Virginia. When she was a bi-vocational pastor, she worked in the trenches of ministry with sex workers, drug users, and women exiting prison. She is the author of I Heart Sex Workers (Chalice Press, 2013). She did her M. Div. work at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, where she learned a deep love for our sacred Scripture and a deep distaste for theologies that promote exclusion. Lia is originally from Alabama and is newly married.