First Baptist Villa Rica ordained Nathan Dorrell and Pedro Tomas to the ministry Sept. 17. Dorrell is a children’s ministry evangelist. Tomas is pastor at Iglesia Bautista Hispana.

Brian Hosmer, youth pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Luthersville, and Matt C. Gwinn, administrative pastor at Carver Road Baptist Church in Griffin, were ordained at Royal Baptist Church in Newnan Oct. 12.

Friendship Baptist Church in Metcalfe ordained Thomas B. Johnson, Edward E. Rehberg, and Richard O. Poulk as deacons on Oct. 29.