It was through the ministry of a church in Decatur that Darryl Wood felt called to be a pastor. Forty-eight years later, Wood retired from First Baptist Church, Vincent, on March 26, where he’s served as pastor for the past nine years.
“I have never doubted that call,” Wood said, thinking back to when he was 18 and heard the Lord “clearly speak to me about His will for me to pursue vocational ministry.”
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Samford University in Birmingham and a master of divinity degree and a doctor of theology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Through the years he’s also served as pastor of Moulton Baptist Church (for 23 years); Bluff Creek Baptist Church, Clinton, Louisiana; and Goodyear Baptist Church, Picayune, Mississippi. Prior to that he served in youth ministry in Alabama and Louisiana.
Wood currently serves as an Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) trustee and previously served on SBOM’s executive committee in the 1990s. He also served as chair of the Committee on Boards and Commissions for the Alabama Baptist State Convention. He serves on the board of governors for Judson College in Marion and the board of ministerial mentors for Samford University in Birmingham.
He and his wife, Marcie, have two children and two grandchildren.
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