Lynn Ester among best known, most talented music ministers

JUNE 2023

  • Lynn Ester, minister of music at Woodrow Baptist Church, leads the congregational singing. He usually plays the guitar and and sometimes the trumpet at his church, and sometimes plays the piano and organ. He can also play the drums and bass fiddle. He has been minister of music at different churches in Southeast Texas for more than 64 years. Photo by Dan Eakin
    Lynn Ester, minister of music at Woodrow Baptist Church, leads the congregational singing. He usually plays the guitar and and sometimes the trumpet at his church, and sometimes plays the piano and organ. He can also play the drums and bass fiddle. He has been minister of music at different churches in Southeast Texas for more than 64 years. Photo by Dan Eakin
Lynn Ester is probably one of the best known ministers of music in Southeast Texas. Now at age 82, he has been serving as a minister of music somewhere in Southeast Texas for more than 64 years, since 1959. He also is among the most versatile and most talented of music ministers. At the 11 a.m. service each Sunday at Woodrow Baptist Church in Silsbee, he may be seen and heard leading the…

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