“God planted me [at New Salem Baptist Church] and He’s never moved me,” said Mike Hall, who recently was honored for 40 years as pastor of the Pickens Baptist Association church in Reform.
During the June 28 service Hall shared about his years as pastor and a few “truths” he learned during his ministry: be flexible; one may be elected as preacher but one must earn the position of pastor; build and keep trust; and when God’s people know the will of God they cannot be stopped.
Chip Smith, associate in the office of LeaderCare and church administration for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, also spoke during the service.
Hall became New Salem Baptist’s bivocational pastor at age 23. He worked at a chemical plant in the 1970s and later became a disc jockey at a local radio station before eventually buying the station and running it for several years. Later he worked for American Family Radio for 13 years until retiring in 2011.
Hall and his wife, Davene, never had any biological children but he said they have multiple “children and grandchildren” they have adopted as their own at church.
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