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Article: PASTOR CHIP ROBERSON RETIRES FROM CAVE SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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When you first meet Pastor Chip Roberson, pastor at Cave Spring
Baptist Church, you may feel like you've known him for years.
Roberson is 57 and been preaching at Cave Spring Baptist Church
for the last five years, but what you may not know about him is the
road it took him to get to where he is today.
Roberson was born in Cedartown, Ga., and went to college to
become a pharmacist. Roberson, an atheist at the time, said he had
everything he ever wanted: a great wife, a house, and a Mercedes,
which he had always wanted. He also had two children, Ben -- who
recently exited the U.S. Army, received a Purple Heart and V-Tag
for Valor -- and Claire, a graduate of Southeast Seminary at Wake ...