Hale Baptist Association welcomes new mission strategist

Jake Duke, a native of York, Alabama, is the new associational mission strategist for Hale Baptist Association.

Before accepting this position, Duke served as an Alabama Baptist state missionary in the office of collegiate and student ministries as campus minister for West Central Alabama, which included the University of West Alabama and community colleges in the area.

From 2003 to 2007, he was director of missions for Bigbee Baptist Association. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Alabama and a master of divinity from Southwestern Seminary. He is bivocational pastor of Jefferson Baptist Church and Epes Baptist Church, both in Demopolis. Duke and his wife, Jannalee, have two children.