Wayne DuBose is coming home.
SHREVEPORT – Wayne DuBose is coming home.
Pastor for 14 years – 1980 through 1994 – of Summer Grove Baptist Church in Shreveport, DuBose was called July 23 to be Director of Missions for the Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association.
“Bro. Wayne brings to the Director of Missions position a deep love for our Lord, wisdom, a wide breadth of experience, a heart for missions, and a genuine love for people,” wrote T. Floyd Davis Jr., chairman of the DOM search committee, in a letter to the association’s executive board before the unanimous vote was taken. “Our committee believes that God has directed us to a man who will be able to lead us with enthusiasm and vision in these challenging days in which we live.”
A reception will follow the 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning worship service Aug. 30 at First Baptist Minden, where DuBose has served as pastor since April 2001.
Technically an Alabama native, DuBose has called Louisiana home since before he graduated in 1971 from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, though he has pastored in small to large churches in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
His extensive list of service at the associational, state and denominational levels includes, among many more, being chairman of the presidential search committee at the Sunday School Board, now known as LifeWay Christian Resources; keynote speaker at the SBC’s Ridgecrest conference center’s Sunday School Week; and trustee at different times of the Louisiana Baptist Foundation and of Louisiana College.
Honors include churches he pastors being in the forefront of baptisms, missions giving and Sunday School growth, and churches he’s pastored “have given millions of dollars to the Cooperative Program,” according to materials provided by First Minden.
DuBose and his wife Linda are parents of Tammy Kay Jones of Shreveport and Todd Wayne DuBose of Minden, and are the grandparents of eight.
“He has a strong record of commitment to the local church and to the association,” Davis wrote. “The Director of Missions Search Committee unanimously and enthusiastically recommends that Rev. Wayne DuBose be called as Director of Missions for the Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association.”
Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association includes Caddo and Bossier parishes.