| Summary: | Frederick Douglass Haynes III, was born on November 10, 1960 in Dallas, Texas to the late Reverend Frederick D. Haynes, Jr. and Lynetta Haynes-Oliver. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. In 1982, he received a B.A. degree in religion and English from Bishop College in Dallas, Texas. He earned a M.Div. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2005, he received his D.Min. degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Mishawaka, Indiana and was offered the opportunity to study at Christ Church, Oxford University in Oxford, England. In 1983, Haynes accepted the call to become Senior Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church. Since then, the church has grown within and outside of the Dallas community and globally. Haynes led Friendship-West to notable accomplishments including improvements and regeneration of Dallas neighborhoods to adopting churches in Zimbabwe and a village in Haiti.
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