Jackie English has been a local pastor in the Highland Lakes area since 1977, and he is currently Senior Pastor of Christ Redeemer Fellowship in Granite Shoals. During that time he has also served as a founding board member of the Highland Lakes Family Crisis Center, which is an outreach to women and children coming out of domestic abuse, as well as a founding board member of The Helping Center – a ministry to those in the Marble Falls area experiencing food insufficiency and other life management challenges, In 2018 he became a founding board member of the Highland Lakes Crisis Network, and is currently serving as President of that board.