Jerry Prevo

Prevo was born on January 12, 1945, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Milan and Aray Phillips Prevo.[1][2] He graduated from Baptist Bible College. He did graduate work at Belmont University, Tennessee Temple University, the University of Tennessee, and Chapman College. A Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred on him by Hyles–Anderson College.[3][4]

For 47 years, Prevo was a pastor at the Anchorage Baptist Temple in Anchorage, Alaska. In January 1980, he founded Alaska's chapter of the Moral Majority and began to boost Republican politicians.[5] Upon his retirement from the Anchorage Baptist Temple in March 2019, the Anchorage Daily News referred to him as the city's "loudest evangelical voice."[6]

In 2020, Prevo was serving as chairman of the board of trustees of Liberty University when controversial photos of Jerry Falwell Jr. came to light.[7][8] After Falwell resigned, Prevo was selected by the university's executive committee to serve as the school's interim president.[9][10][11]

In the Fall of 2022, Jerry Prevo gave his most memorable sermon while speaking at Liberty Convocation. This sermon begins with Prevo explaining how he had a dream where he died but still was conscious. His wife Carol then takes him to a taxidermist where she wanted him stuffed. She then would have regular conversations to which he couldn't respond. After a while, Carol reduced the conversations and then brought another man into the house who hated the stuffed human. This new person, now her husband, then convinced Carol to throw Jerry out to a dumpster. Jerry then makes the analogy that everyone needs a little help out of the dumpster that they are in, and that can be through Jesus. [12]