BIRMINGHAM METRO ASSOCIATION
Buddy Gray knew when he was 16 that God was calling him to the ministry. He started preaching at rural churches and working on his theological education, and along the way he served as youth pastor at Hunter Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, in the late 1970s.
He had no idea that in 1986, the church would call him back as pastor — and he would stay there long enough to see generations grow up in the faith.
On June 1, Gray marks 35 years as pastor of Hunter Street, a congregation he calls “gracious and kind.”
During his career, Gray also has served in a variety of roles at the state and national level, including two one-year terms as Alabama Baptist State Convention president starting in 1998 and more recently as a member of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s 2018 Leadership Council.
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