Rev. Kenneth R. Kemp, MD, Pastor,
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
 Kenneth R. Kemp, MD, is a native of Tucker, Arkansas. The son of Otis and Aristine McDonnell, he grew up in rural Arkansas and excelled in academics. After completing his junior year in high school, he enrolled on the early admissions program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff where he continued to excel. Upon graduation with a 4.0 GPA in 1984, he was accepted into several medical schools and he finally decided to attend the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In 1988, he graduated from the UAMS with honors in research and academics. Having accepted an ROTC scholarship in college and the Army Health Professions Scholarship while in medical school, Dr. Kemp was appointed a captain in the US Army upon graduation from medical school and he began his internship in internal medicine at Brook Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX. He completed residency at BAMC in 1991 and was subsequently selected to be the Chief of Medical Residents from 1991 to 1992. After his year as Chief of Medical Residents, Dr. Kemp entered fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at BAMC, which he completed in 1995. After serving three years as the Assistant Chief of the Pulmonary Service at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dr. Kemp returned to BAMC in 1998 as a member of the teaching faculty in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. During his time on active duty, he served as the Program Director of the Transitional Year Program, Medical Director of the Pulmonary Functions Laboratory, and a member of the Institutional Review Board and the Institutional Bioethics Committee. In June of 2005, he was selected as the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program at BAMC and later that same year, he was selected to be the Acting Chariman of the Institutional Bioethics Committee. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Army Medical Corps in June 2006. He is currently certified in the areas of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Kemp retired from the Army in September 2009 after 21 years of active service and 25 years of total service in our nation’s military.

In addition to his life in medicine, Dr. Kemp has a strong faith in Christ and is an ordained Baptist minister. He was initially ordained as a deacon in 1990 and later accepted his call into the gospel ministry in 1991 at the Antioch Baptist Church under the late Pastor JJ Rector, Sr. He served as the interim Pastor of the True Vision Baptist Church in San Antonio from 1994 to 1995 and he was Assistant to the Pastor for Pastoral Care at the Lewis Chapel Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina from 1995 to 1998. Upon his return to San Antonio in 1998, he resumed his duties as a member of the preaching ministry at Antioch under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. E. Thurman Walker. In 2004, he was selected to be Assistant Pastor at Antioch, under his friend and mentor, Pastor Walker. Dr. Kemp continued as Assistant Pastor at, Antioch until September 27, 2009 when he was selected as Co-Pastor. On October 26, 2009, upon the demise of Dr. Walker and the move of the Holy Spirit, he assumed the responsibilities and position of Pastor. Over the last two years, the Holy Spirit has continued to abide with the Antioch Church under the leadership of Pastor Kemp. Antioch has maintained her focus and moved higher in Christ—being determined to keep pressing for the prize—under the capable guidance of this preacher-pastor.
Dr. Kemp has been published in the areas of general medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Biomedical Ethics. He also has interest in Education in general, and Christian Education in particular. He is a member of the Baptist Ministers Union of San Antonio and Vicinity, the Community of Churches for Social Action, and the Guadalupe District Association.