J. Steven Layton is the new discipleship pastor of Double Oak Community Church, Birmingham.
Layton is a graduate of Samford University and holds a master of divinity degree in pastoral ministries and doctor of ministry degree in leadership and administration from New Orleans Seminary.
He was saved and baptized in 1971 and accepted the call to full-time Christian service in 1982. He received his minister’s license in 1984 followed by ordination in 1986.
He previously was the lead strategist for groups at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions; pastor of Riverchase Baptist Church, Hoover; discipleship minister of Brentwood Baptist Church (Tennessee); associate pastor of teaching and discipleship of NorthPark Baptist Church, Trussville; Lifeway Church Resources consultant for the south central region of Alabama; minister of Christian education of Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham; associate pastor/minister of education and interim pastor of First Baptist Church Alexander City; and minister of education and youth of Fultondale FBC.
He and his wife, Melinda, have five children and five grandchildren.
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