·         Married to Sharon since 3/24/68

·         Two married children:   Donny Ray II and Laura Beth. Laura is a personnel recruiter and lives in Winchester, KY.  Donny teaches New Testament at North Greenville University in South Carolina. 

·         Preached in 650+ revival meetings (350+ since entering full-time evangelism nine years ago) and numerous evangelism, leadership, and Bible conferences

·         Pastor for thirty years of five Kentucky Baptist churches ranging in size from an average Sunday School attendance of  77 to 945 and in worship from 100 to 1100---Crofton, Green River (Cromwell), Southside (Princeton), Central (Corbin), Central (Winchester).  The last three, in small towns, experienced 3,200 additions with two tripling in size, and all three reaching the highest attendance in their histories.

·         Six years in denominational ministry:  Executive Director/Minister of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists and Director of Pastor-Staff Leadership, LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention

·         While with LifeWay led PSLD, the department composed of national ministry consultants relating to pastors, ministers of education, youth, children, recreation, and media, deacons, ministry assistants, conflict mediation specialists, and LifeWay’s LeaderCare ministry, as well as publishing LifeWay’s pastor-staff leadership magazines.  Gave leadership to the launching of  FAITH Sunday School Evangelism Strategy.  Also, Pastor-Staff Leadership Department provided training and published resources related to GROW.

·         Author of Surviving and Thriving in Today’s Ministry: Prescription for Effective Leadership (for young pastors; used in some college and seminary classes) and Pastor-Staff Search Committee Guide (used by thousands of SBC churches); Contributor to Proclaim, Growing Churches, Church Administration, Minister’s Family, Let’s Worship, and Deacon magazines

·         Interim pastor (the entire time while serving at LifeWay) of four churches:  Second, Hopkinsville (KY), First, Portland (TN), Eastwood, Bowling Green (KY), Second, Greenville (KY)

·         President of both the Pastors’ Conference and the Kentucky Baptist Convention

·         Bachelor of Science, Austin Peay State University; Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Doctor of Divinity, Cumberland College

·         Preached on evangelism, pastors’ conference, and/or leadership programs in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, Michigan, and Illinois

·         Taught leadership and/or preaching seminars/classes at Ridgecrest and Glorieta assemblies, Mid-Continent, Clear Creek, and Cumberland colleges, and  Southern, Southwestern, and Mid-America seminaries  

Basic Beliefs:

·         Salvation is the gift of God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior

·         The Holy Spirit convicts of sin and brings conversion to the willing individual

·         The Bible is God’s inspired, inerrant word

·         Christ loves the church and gave Himself for His bride

·         All are lost without Christ thus Christ gave the Great Commission to every church and individual Christian

·         Jesus is coming again!

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