Gary Carver retired after 53 years in the pastorate. He served the First Baptist Church and the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Pastor Carver is a graduate of Samford University (B.A.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div. and. Min.), and has done additional graduate study at the Candler School of Theology with Fred Craddock and Harvard Divinity School with Harvey Cox. He has authored numerous titles for CSS Publishing. His radio and TV ministry Gotta Minute? has been running almost continuously for 35 years.
