Pastor Allen Davis retired effective Feb. 26 from East Gardendale Baptist Church, Gardendale, after serving for more than 17 years.
In 1978, while serving as youth director at Fellowship Baptist Church, Birmingham, Davis was called into the gospel ministry. His first pastorate was bivocational in 1981 at Warrior’s West Side Baptist Church. In 1984 he began serving at Gardendale First Baptist Church in the adult education department under then-Pastor David Dykes and later Pastor Steve Gaines. Throughout the years, Davis continued his education at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary through Samford University in Birmingham. Davis was called to serve as interim at East Gardendale Baptist in September 1999 and then as pastor in January 2002. He and his wife, Donna, celebrated 45 years of marriage March 3 and have been blessed with three children and three grandchildren. (Cathy Edwards/East Gardendale Baptist Church)
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