Pastor Dillon Awes was born in Fresno, California. He did not grow up going to church. As a young teenager, he saw a video online of a gospel presentation given by Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church and he decided to put his faith in Christ for salvation.

After getting saved, he started soul-winning and serving in his local independent fundamental Baptist church.

In 2018, he married his wife Jassamayn, and together they have four daughters: Bethany, Leah, Anna, and Heidi.

Pastor Awes started preaching at the age of 20 and went into full-time ministry at 23 when he moved to Texas to serve on staff at Stedfast Baptist Church. After serving at the church for four years, Pastor Jonathan Shelley ordained him and sent him to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to start Anchor Baptist Church, which was formerly a satellite church of Stedfast Baptist Church.

Pastor Awes’ vision for Anchor Baptist Church is to train soul winners and preachers to get the gospel out to our city, state, nation, and world. He is passionate about bringing Christianity back into our culture and desires to pass on the old-time traditions of soul-winning and hard preaching to the next generation.