Daily News | Philip J. Ginyard, senior pastor, theologian, counselor, and inspirational blogger, has died at 62
Philip J. Ginyard, 62, of Mullica Hill, former senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Swedesboro, chaplain for the Woolwich Township Police Department, theologian, program director at Missio Seminary, and inspirational blogger, died Friday, May 5, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at his home.
“He was a fighter,” said his wife, Donna Brown Ginyard. “He did not let that [illness] stop him. And he never complained.” The youngest of four children, Philip Jerome Ginyard was born Jan. 17, 1961. He grew up in Wynnefield, attended Calvary Gospel Chapel in West Philadelphia, and graduated from Overbrook High School.
Pastor Ginyard never lost his interest in political science and read everything he could, especially newspapers. He wrote on his own often and said in a 1997 op-ed in The Inquirer: “Despite the growing pains and the changing faces of the residents, Wynnefield has a special place in the mosaic of neighborhoods that is Philadelphia. It was truly a privilege to grow into adulthood in Dr. Wynne’s ‘hood.
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