Darrell Jackson

Darrell grew up in the Isle of Man, came to faith in 1972, and was baptised in 1979. He gained a BA at London School of Theology, was ordained as a Baptist pastor in 1989, and graduated with a Th.D. from the University of Birmingham in 2009.

Darrell has missionary experience in Europe, and short-term mission experience in Africa and Asia. His wife, Beth, grew up in the USA and served as a missionary in the UK before marrying Darrell and partnering with him in mission service in Hungary. He has been an ECMI Trustee since 2014 and helped shape the current ECMI policy on human sexuality.

He has served in pastoral ministry, regional ministry and was the National Mission Advisor to the Baptist Union of Great Britainfrom 1996 until 2003. He was seconded by CMS(UK) from 2004-2007 to serve as the Executive Researcher for the Conference of European Churches, based in Hungary. He became the founding Director of the Nova Research Centre and Lecturer in European Mission, Redcliffe College, England between 2007-2011. In early 2012 he relocated with his family to Sydney, Australia, to take upthe position of Associate Professor of Missiology at Morling College. In 2019 he began work as the Director of Research at Whitley College, Melbourne, the Baptist theological college for Victoria.

Darrell and Beth, both ordained Baptist pastors, have two children, Kai and Karys.

October 2019