Zion Baptist Church learned about AIPM while we were serving at nearby Milnsbridge Baptist Church in Huddersfield from 2003 to 2005. Mollie Jackson, Zion Church Secretary, got in touch with us in late 2006 and learned the protocol for partnering with AIPM to provide candidates for short-term volunteer pastors. The proposition was taken to a church meeting and the church voted to have our help. We sent profiles, videos of sermons and videos of interviews of candidates to Molly. Zion chose to invite Darrell Grice (wife Faith) to be their first American short-term pastor. Darrell and Faith began ministry at Zion in January 2007. They had previously served at Milnsbridge.

We had 3 additional couples serve our Lord at Zion. Each couple served one-half year and handed over the ministry to the next couple. Great care was taken to do a good job of orientation of the incoming couple both at the McComb’s home in Texas during brief visits by the candidate couple and the outgoing pastor and wife departing Zion.

We prepared a flyer to communicate with folks in the USA the opportunity to serve our Lord in Mirfield, Yorkshire (See flyer below).