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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.
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