Darrin Patrick

Background

Patrick was born in Marion, Illinois.

Education

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Biblical Languages from Southwest Baptist University (1994), he graduated summa cum laude from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity, 1997), and received a Doctor of degree from Covenant Theological Seminary (2010).

Career

He serves as the vice-president of the Acts 29 Network, an international church planting organization. He also serves as the chaplain to the Saint Louis Cardinals. He is the author of several books, including Church Planter: The Manitoba, The Message, The Mission (2010), and The Dude"s Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits (2014).

He became a Christian while in high school, where he was an all-conference, all-area catcher on the baseball team

After beginning a successful ministry in high school, he pursued pastoral training rather than a college baseball career. He has been married since 1993 and has four children.

Patrick moved from suburban Kansas City, Missouri to Saint Louis in 2002 to plant The Journey in the urban core. The church has seen unprecedented growth in the city of Saint Louis and the broader metropolitan region.

The Journey is now a multi-site ministry with 6 churches in Missouri and Illinois, including Patrick"s hometown of Marion.

The Journey has also supported 8 additional church plants, including one in Portuguese-au-Prince, Haiti. The church has been scrutinized for its cultural engagement by the Missouri Baptist Convention and received national media attention regarding one of its outreach ministries, "Theology at the Bottleworks," for being held at Schlafly Bottleworks, a brewery in Maplewood, Missouri. In his role as the chaplain to the Saint Louis Cardinals, Patrick regularly leads chapel services and Bible studies during the baseball season. He is present for the players either before or after home games.

Shortly after the end of the 2013 season, Patrick officiated the wedding of Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller.

As a chaplain, Patrick is a part of Baseball Chapel, an international ministry recognized by Major and Minor League Baseball, which is responsible for the appointment and oversight of all team chapel leaders (over 500 throughout professional baseball). He has been interviewed by The Christian Post.

He has also appeared on Fox & Friends, and has been discussed by The New York Times, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, and British Broadcasting Corporation News Online. Patrick"s sermons are now being played back in various regions around the world through CGNTV, a non-profit mission-oriented Christian broadcasting network headquartered in South of Korea, which broadcasts twenty-four hours a day in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese all around Asia.

Achievements

• He is the founder pastor of The Journey church in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Works

• Other Work

  • Books Patrick, Darrin (2010). Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission. Crossway Books. . Patrick, Darrin and Carter, Matt (2011).
    
    For The City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel. Zondervan. . Patrick, Darrin (2014). The Dude�s Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits.
    
    Thomas Nelson. . Patrick, Darrin and DeVine, Mark (2014). Replant: How a Dying Church Can Grow Again. David C. Cook. . Contributions DeYoung, Kevin (2011).
    
    Don�t Call It a Comeback: the Old Faith for a New Day. Crossway Books. . ESV Bibles by Crossway (2013). ESV Gospel Transformation Bible.
    
    Crossway Books. .

Membership

Patrick is a council member of The Gospel Coalition, a group of Reformed Evangelical leaders from around the United States, including Doctorate. A. Carson, Tim Keller, and John Piper.