Installation Services for Pastor Nicole P. Guns Set for October 17 – 19, 2025

(Gary, IND) – History is on the horizon for Gary’s oldest religious institution. First Baptist will officially install Nicole P. Guns as the church’s first-ever female pastor the weekend of October 17th through 19th. Guns is a sixth generation licensed and ordained minister and the second Black woman to serve as pastor of a baptist church in the state of Indiana.

A nurse by trade, minister by calling and training, Guns revealed that she did not expect her spiritual journey to lead to Gary, Indiana, especially after being a lifelong Virginian. She characterizes her arrival to the Steel city as “Literally and truly a God thing.”

“Sometimes God laughs at our plans,” said Guns. “I knew staying in Virginia would be

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