Meet The Author
Anthony Payton
Anthony Payton is a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He has served as Senior Pastor/Teacher of Come As You Are Community Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for twenty-seven years.
Anthony accepted his call to the ministry in 1986. He preached his first sermon on April 14, 1986, at True Love Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, under the pastorate of the late Bishop Jesse White.
Led by the Holy Spirit in 1995, Pastor Payton accepted the responsibility of stewarding 12 people of the former Greater Come As You Are Missionary Baptist Church. Today, with a membership of over 600 people, the church’s home is a 28,000-square-foot state-of-the-art sanctuary. Among other accomplishments are: