Board of Directors
Gary Wyder
Age 62
2702 NW 52nd Ave
Gainesville, FL 32605
Gary has a BAA from the University of Wisconsin and Southeastern Biblical Institute. Gary has been the prison evangelist at the Lake Butler church of Christ for 26 years. His ministry includes teaching, preaching, and counseling at prisons in the north Florida area. He has also conducted prison training workshops all over the United States. Gary has been married for 36 years and has one grown son.
Daryl Townsend
Daryl lives in Middleburg, Florida, just south of Jacksonville. A member of the church of Christ from his youth and affiliated with the congregation in Middleburg for over 25 years, Daryl has been teaching and preaching in Florida Prisons since 2004. He began doing prison ministry full time in December of 2005 and is currently being supported by about seven congregations of the Lord’s church.
Daryl works primarily in prisons in the NE Florida area, including the Florida State Prison at Raiford, particularly the Reception and Medical Center, Union Correctional Institution in Lake Butler, Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson and the Lawtey Correctional Institution, the state’s only men’s faith and character-based prison, which is located near Starke. Daryl teaches classes, conducts worship services, does individual and group Bible studies and performs individual and group counseling, developing close relationships with inmates who desire to change their lives through Christ. Daryl and his wife, Missy, own two transition houses. They have been married since 1984 and have three adult children.