John Bouquet: The Pastoral Is Political

Interview and story by Tracy Leturgey, Ashland Source.

John Bouquet values faith and family, and he loves the United States of America. In his photo for Ohio Values, the senior pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in the small village of Savannah, Ohio, stands with his wife Sherry outside the newly relocated US Embassy in Jerusalem. For the New Jersey native who moved to Ohio as a boy and built his life here as a religious leader, husband and father, the image represents what he sees as a clear connection between his role in his church and his role as an activist pastor.