Mike Carryl is a native of Jacksonville, Florida. Growing up, he attended Westside Baptist Church and Luther Rice Seminary where he graduated in 1992. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies from Luther Rice Bible College. Mike has worked in the tire and automotive industry with three local businesses from 1976-present and presently manages Tire...Mike Carryl is a native of Jacksonville, Florida. Growing up, he attended Westside Baptist Church and Luther Rice Seminary where he graduated in 1992. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies from Luther Rice Bible College. Mike has worked in the tire and automotive industry with three local businesses from 1976-present and presently manages Tire Kingdom at 591 Park St. in downtown Jacksonville. From 1985 until 1992, he served in a leadership role at Westside Baptist Church last serving as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Deacons. In 1992 Mike left Westside Baptist Church to help support a new mission work that originated from WBC and pastored by Rich McRae.
After an extensive study of the Scriptures concerning church leadership by Pastor McRae, Mike came to the conviction that the local church should be led by a plurality of Godly men (i.e. elders), which greatly influenced he and his family in 1993 to consider being a permanent part of the church plant in Orange Park, Florida now known as Orange Park Bible Church that would be elder led. To his surprise but also to his delight, this work of God in Mike’s life resulted in Mike becoming one of the two founding elders of Orange Park Bible Church. For the past 21 years, Mike has faithfully taught adult Bible studies in the two churches he and his family have attended. His passion for the Word of God and diligent study is evident as he continues to teach verse by verse in the youth Bible study each week at Orange Park Bible Church for the past two years. Mike encourages people to study the Word of God for themselves and to know the Truth so that they might be able to “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
Mike and his wife, Laura, have been married for thirty years, and they have three Children: Jason 28, Morgan 25, and Jonathan 16. They also have one grandchild through Morgan: Micah 6 months old as of Jan. 5th, 2009. | more | less