For the past 20 years, Ray Owens has served as the pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church in north Tulsa. The church honored him this March, which also marked another milestone for Owens — four decades of serving in ministry.
Owens said his call to ministering came one night in Austin, Texas, when he was working for the state comptroller. He remembers being the only person in the office and seeing someone’s bookmark with biblical scripture printed on it.
“I just had a moment where I felt like God was speaking to me,” Owens told The Eagle in the week leading up to his celebration. “I grew up in church but I never saw myself as being a pastor, a preacher or anything like that.”…