EDMOND — John Wohlgemuth was maybe 10 years old when his grandfather asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
“Preacher,” Wohlgemuth said.
Wohlgemuth doesn't tell that story. His mother does. Sitting in his office at Henderson Hills Baptist, a few weeks into his new role as lead pastor at the mega-church just off Interstate 35, Wohlgemuth talks of not coming to repentance until he got to college.
“I had played the traditional, growing-up-small-town-church-kid life, where you do everything right on the outside, but very privately you're running away from Jesus,” Wohlgemuth said.
Which might raise eyebrows from the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Les Miles era.