Pastor Larry Burd has been the Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the past twenty-four years. He is a graduate of Houghton College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Pastor Burd pastored churches in Melrose, MA and Buffalo, NY before moving to Bethlehem in 1983.

As a pastor/evangelist, he has ministered the gospel in North America, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. The motto of his life is, “HE DIED FOR ME, I’LL LIVE FOR HIM.”

Pastor Burd is host of “The Living Truth” television program, aired on 13 cable channels twice each week. He and his wife, Sharon, have four married children, two boys and two girls. He also has two grandchildren.