Our Pastor

Pastor Darrell Hurst was saved at the age of 8 in Sunday school. Later, while at a camp in Monticello, Kentucky at the age of 18, he surrendered to preach the Gospel.

In 1985, he graduated from Hyles-Anderson College and in 1987, became the Assistant Pastor of Inland Empire Baptist Temple in Spokane, Washington.

God called him to move from Washington state to Williamsburg, Kentucky where he became the Senior Pastor of New Zion Baptist Church. In the spring of 2000, under his leadership, the church moved from the landlocked area that they were in to where the church is now located.

Married to his college sweetheart, Grace, the Hurst's have been blessed with 4 sons and 1 daughter: Darrell II, Nathan, Monica, Levi, and Seth.

Pastor Hurst has led the congregation of New Zion Baptist Church to be an independent, fundamental, soul-winning, missions-minded fellowship of believers. With a wide variety of ministries to that end including a bus ministry, a nursing home ministry, and other outreach ministries, many souls have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, lives have been miraculously transformed, and several Christian workers have been sent from New Zion Baptist Church into mission fields around the world to reach others with the Gospel.