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  Monday - Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS
 

Prayer Meeting - Wednesdays 6:00-6:45PM (Harvard Chapel)

Bible Study
- Wednesdays      --            12 noon-1:30PM (Harvard Commons) & 7:00PM-8:30PM Adults (Harvard  Commons) / Youth (Awana and Teen/Tween) Bonebrake Hall

Men’s Choir Practice – Every Saturday, 10:00AM (Harvard Chapel)

 

 


 

 
 
 
 
 
 


 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 


 

   

Biography

Reverend Dr. Daryl Ward 

The Reverend Dr. Daryl Ward serves as Senior Pastor of the Omega Baptist Church.  The membership of Omega Baptist Church has grown from 100 to more than 4,000 members since he became the pastor in May 1988.  The congregation has over 30 active ministries including a prison ministry, a full service bookstore and a community development corporation. 

Reverend Ward served on the administration/faculty of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH from 1986 to 1996.   During his tenure at United Reverend Ward held the titles of Director of Admissions, Executive Vice-President and President/Chief Operating Officer and Dean of African-American Ministries. He was responsible for the creation of an African-American Ministries Program where the African American presence rose from 1 to more than 35% of the student body. At its height the program was considered to be one of the largest and most successful of its kind.  Reverend Ward now serves as President Emeritus and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the seminary.

From 1996 to 1998 Reverend Ward served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Outreach Foundation.  This non-profit organization sponsored national and regional educational events for hundreds of pastors, Christian educators and lay leaders of urban congregations throughout the country.

Reverend Ward received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster in 1979.  He earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and was inducted into the Ohio State Bar Association in 1985.  He obtained his Master of Divinity from the Colgate Rochester Divinity School and was ordained to the ministry at Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, Rochester, New York in 1986.  Reverend Ward did further graduate study at Harvard University in 1994 & 2008.

As a community leader, Pastor Ward currently serves on several boards including the Payne Theological Seminary, University of Dayton Board of Directors, and Parents Advancing Choice in Education [PACE].   He has also earned several awards, including: Honorary Chief of the Ekumpfi Asokwa Village in Ghana, West Africa, United Theological Seminary’s Daryl Ward Scholarship (named in his honor), Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers, and Doctor of Divinity Degree from Simmons Bible College in Louisville, Kentucky, The Dayton SCLC’s Martin Luther King Jr. award and the 2004 Distinguished Alum of the year for the Colgate Rochester Divinity School.

Reverend Daryl Ward is sought nationally as a speaker for colleges, conferences and churches. He and his wife, Reverend Vanessa Oliver Ward, have one son, Joshua (Barbara), and two daughters, Rachel and Bethany.