Our Pastor

 

Pastor

PASTOR RODNEY J. PARROTT

 

Rodney J. Parrott was born February 24, 1942 in Columbus, Georgia. At the age of 17 Bro. Parrott enlisted in the U.S. Marines Corps. He served his country from April 1959 to April 1963.

One month after Bro. Parrott was discharged from the Marines he was saved. He soon met Barbara Long who later became Barbara Parrott on February 6, 1964. Three years later, they joined the Peoples Baptist Church in Forest Park, Georgia in 1967. It was there that they found the Will of God for their lives. Bro. Parrott answered the call to preach in 1968. Through the counsel of their Pastor, Talmadge Walker, they enrolled at Tennessee Temple Bible School in 1969 and Graduated in 1973.

Bro. Parrott and his wife were accepted as Missionary Candidates in February 1973 with Baptist International Missions, Inc. based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their primary calling was to work with the Spanish-speaking people in Spain. To prepare for this, Bro. and Sister Parrott went to San Jose, Costa Rica and enrolled in the El Instituto De Lengua Espanola. They spent a year in Language study there and then went on to Madrid, Spain to continue their studies in the Spanish Language.

Bro. Parrott had visited several times the Bethel Baptist Church, a Military Work in Rota, Spain. It was through these visits and ministering to the U.S. Armed Forces stationed there that the Lord led Bro. Parrott to take the Church in 1976. They stayed and pastored the Bethel Baptist Church until 1984 when they took their first furlough.

The Parrotts have served the Lord faithfully in the planting of Military Churches throughout Europe. They served in the countries of Spain, Germany and Italy until 2002. They are dedicated to our U.S. Armed Forces stationed throughout the world. They have been instrumental in helping to establish over 12 churches in these countries over the past 35 years of their Missionary Service. From 2002 until now the Parrotts have travelled the world filling the pulpits of many of the Military Pastors needing a short furlough or in most cases an emergency leave of absence. May the 28th 2008 the Parrotts once again has taken a pastorate in Yokota, Japan. The Yokota Baptist Church will be the seventh church the Parrotts have pastored in the last 35 years.


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