Rodney Howard
Teaching Pastor
Rodney was born in Hartsville, S.C. and graduated from Hartsville High School. He received an Associates Degree in Engineering Technology from Florence Darlington Technical College in 1980. In 1982 Rodney returned to college after experiencing a spiritual awakening earlier that year. He met his wife Gay Dyches while attending Charleston Southern University and they were married in 1984. After Rodney graduated from CSU in 1985, he and Gay both began classes at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas later that year. In December of 1988 Rodney graduated with a Masters of Divinity Degree and Gay received her Masters Degree in Religious Education.
Rodney and Gay served churches in Vansant, Va., and Hemingway, S.C., before moving to Sumter in November, 1996 for him to be pastor of Crosswell Baptist. Rodney made a transition to bi-vocational ministry in February 2003 and came to Salt and Light in 2005 just before Clay and Kathryn Weeks were about to prepare for their work in Central Asia.
Gay grew up in the home of IMB missionaries in Latin America and has been a high school Spanish teacher since they returned to South Carolina. They have two children, Kate and Phillip. Kate and Shuler Spigener live in Laurens, S.C. and have two girls, Sullivan and Camille. Phillip and Bekah live near Pinewood, S.C. and have one daughter, Miriam.
Teaching Pastor
Rodney was born in Hartsville, S.C. and graduated from Hartsville High School. He received an Associates Degree in Engineering Technology from Florence Darlington Technical College in 1980. In 1982 Rodney returned to college after experiencing a spiritual awakening earlier that year. He met his wife Gay Dyches while attending Charleston Southern University and they were married in 1984. After Rodney graduated from CSU in 1985, he and Gay both began classes at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas later that year. In December of 1988 Rodney graduated with a Masters of Divinity Degree and Gay received her Masters Degree in Religious Education.
Rodney and Gay served churches in Vansant, Va., and Hemingway, S.C., before moving to Sumter in November, 1996 for him to be pastor of Crosswell Baptist. Rodney made a transition to bi-vocational ministry in February 2003 and came to Salt and Light in 2005 just before Clay and Kathryn Weeks were about to prepare for their work in Central Asia.
Gay grew up in the home of IMB missionaries in Latin America and has been a high school Spanish teacher since they returned to South Carolina. They have two children, Kate and Phillip. Kate and Shuler Spigener live in Laurens, S.C. and have two girls, Sullivan and Camille. Phillip and Bekah live near Pinewood, S.C. and have one daughter, Miriam.