Pastor finds global mission field in Louisville’s refugee community

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – Alex Tenenbaum has a heart for the nations, and that calling is shaping both his ministry and his daily life. He serves as an assistant pastor at Forest Baptist Church, an historic African American congregation, where he leads community engagement efforts.

Tenenbaum lives in a refugee community in Louisville, sharing the gospel with his neighbors and discipling those who are interested.

“I’m probably the only American in a building with 12 units,” he said. “My next-door neighbors are Afghanistan, Cubans, Rwandans. I have a heart to live overseas as a missionary. But God has placed the nations here as well. I’m the minority wherever I am in my church or community.”…

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