Pastor Larry Carrier has many years experience in the ministry, having served as assistant pastor and music director of churches in Texas, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He is an alumnus of the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in Music Education with a proficiency in voice. He has been music director of Morningside since February of 1988. He and his wife, Eny, have four children: Robin, Randy, Ranya and Rochelle. Both Robin and Ranya are married to pastors. (Ranya is married to the assistant pastor of Morningside.)

Larry is also Production Coordinator of Sound Forth, the music division of Bob Jones University Press. He has written and arranged music for many years, and has compiled and published a collection of old-time gospel songs which Morningside uses as a supplemental hymnal. It is his desire to serve the Lord through a Christ- honoring music ministry at Morningside Baptist Church.