My Pilgrimage of Faith - Buddy McGohon - Bog

The Memoir of a Baptist Minister whose path at crucial points has seemingly been shaped by divine guidance.
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Buddy Clay McGohon, an ordained minister, retired in 2004 after 18 years as Director of Mission for the Montgomery Baptist Association, Montgomery, AL. Prior to that he was a pastor for 28 years, serving 6 churches in Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama. The last three of those were First Baptist, Vernon (1964-73), and in Birmingham 66th Street Baptist (1973-77) and South Avondale Baptist (1977-85).

In retirement he has served as an Intentional Interim Pastor for four congregations in the Birmingham area, the most recent being First Baptist, Center Point. Others were the Indian Springs First Baptist Church, Pelham, First Baptist, Leeds, and First Baptist Irondale. He also served the Birmingham Baptist Association as its Interim Executive Director and the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions as a part-time associate. He has also served churches in Alabama, Kentucky and Missouri as a strategic planning consultant.

Buddy, a Kentucky native, is a graduate of Georgetown College (Kentucky) and holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from The Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, KY. He is also certified as an Intentional Interim Minister by the Center for Congregation Health, Winston Salem, NC.

He and his wife Barbara are the proud parents of 3 daughters, Beth, Amy and Alisa, 6 grandchildren and 3 great-granddaughters. They currently live in Birmingham where they recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.