Pastor Willie E. Kline, Sr was born and reared in Tallulah, Louisiana. He accepted Christ and was baptized at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Tallulah at the ripe age of 10 years old.

In August 1992, Pastor Kline accepted his call into the ministry and preached his first sermon on October 3, 1992 at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Tallulah.

Pastor Kline graduated as salutatorian from Thomastown High School in the Madison Parish School District. He continued his education at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana - “The Place Where Everybody Is Somebody”. At Grambling, he was a Dean’s List student and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and graduated Cum Laude.

It was in God’s plan to use an old country boy from Tallulah to begin Logos Baptist Church. Subsequently, Pastor Kline conducted Logos’ first service and on April 14, 2002 and was installed as Pastor on June 8, 2002.

Pastor Kline is married to the former Nyralin Lamb of Joliet, Illinois and they are the proud parents of a daughter (Moryah Faythe Kline) and a son (Willie E. Kline, Jr.)