Reverend David J. Wood This is Me

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1. 1. Our Staff

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   Published on: 7/17/2008   Last Visited: 7/17/2008

   David J. WoodCoordinator, Transition into Ministry Program

2. 2. xpastor.org

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   Published on: 2/27/2008   Last Visited: 2/27/2008

   David J. Wood, Pastor
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   Reverend David J. Wood is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gardiner, Maine, and serves as a consultant to the Lilly Endowment as the Coordinator of the Transition into Ministry Program.He is currently under contract with Brazos Press to write a book on the essential connection between the practice of friendship and the practice of pastoral leadership.Rev. Wood was the keynote speaker at the 2006 College of Pastoral Leaders Conference, "The Jazz of Holy Friendship."
   
   Excerpted from Volume 3 of Communitas, a journal of the College of Pastoral Leaders at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas (http://www.austinseminary.edu/cpl).Reprinted with permission.

3. 3. www.firstbaptistgardiner.org

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   Published on: 6/1/2007   Last Visited: 6/1/2007

   Reverend David Wood
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   Reverend David J. Wood
   
   David J. Wood was born on November 12, 1956, in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up as the middle child in a family of five children with one brother and three sisters.Being the son of a pastor, David was nurtured and formed by the life of the church from an early age.At the age of seven he made his confession of faith and was baptized.
   
   In 1969, David moved with his family from Australia to Wichita, Kansas where his father became the pastor of Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).Upon graduation from Oral Roberts University in 1978, and in response to a sense of call to the ordained ministry, David enrolled in the Master of Divinity degree program at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
   
   David was awarded the Master of Divinity degree in May of 1982 and accepted a call to serve as the Associate Minister of the First Baptist Church of West Hartford, Connecticut.While serving in West Hartford, David was ordained into the ministry of the American Baptist Churches, USA (1984), and soon thereafter married Jennifer Sue Testerman.
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   In 1988, David began his studies at Yale Divinity School for the Master of Sacred Theology degree.His studies centered in Theology and Ethics.
   
   Upon graduation from Yale in 1989, David accepted a call to serve as the Pastor of the United Baptist Church in Lewiston, Maine.
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   After a wonderful and enriching tenure at United Baptist, David accepted a call to serve as the Associate Pastor of the American Church of Paris, France.The Wood family moved to Paris in July of 1997.
   
   In July, 1998, David received and accepted a call to serve as the first Associate Director of the Louisville Institute-a Lilly Endowment funded Project for the Study of American Religion based at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.As Associate Director, David sought, through grant making and convening, to stimulate a sustained, critical, constructive, and ecumenical conversation about the practice of pastoral leadership in a changing church in a changing culture.David also served on the Adjunct Faculty of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary in their Doctor of Ministry program.
   
   In March 2002, David accepted a call to become the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gardiner, Maine.In conjunction with that call, he also serves (2 days/week) as a consultant to the Lilly Endowment as the Coordinator of the Transition into Ministry Program."Transition into Ministry" is a program focuses on recent seminary graduates as they make their journey from classroom to congregation.Currently, this program includes a total of twenty-three projects across the country and the denominational spectrum.Fifteen of these programs are congregation-based and the remaining eight are institution based involving more than 120 recent seminary graduates.
   
   David is currently under contract with Brazos Press to write a book on the essential connection between the practice of friendship and the practice of pastoral leadership.