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Pastor Vernon C. Lyons has served the Ashburn Baptist Church as Administrative Pastor since 1951 and has led the church through eight building programs. Under his leadership Ashburn Baptist has founded 38 other Baptist churches.

Pastor and Mrs. Lyons have eight children and twenty-eight grandchildren. Two sons are Baptist pastors.

Lyons is president of the Ashburn Baptist Bible Institute and serves on its faculty. He has lectured to various pastors' groups and at Omaha's Grace Bible College, Pillsbury Bible College, Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Denver Baptist Bible College, DePaul University, Thomas Aquinas Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Temple Baptist Theological Seminary and other schools.

Lyons has visited 36 nations in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Orient.

His ministry has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Pastor Lyons has edited the Ashburn Baptist News since 1953, authored various pamphlets, and his articles have appeared in Moody Monthly, The Baptist Bulletin, The Sword of the Lord, The Biblical Research Monthly, Psychology for Living, and The Christian Reader.

The relevance of his pulpit ministry has been recognized as television crews from NBC, CBS, ABC and WBC have videotaped at Ashburn Baptist.

Lyons has appeared on television in every major city of the nation, on every channel in Chicago, and on every leading radio station in Chicago. He has had major confrontations on television with atheist Madalyn O'Hair, satanist Anton La Vey, and radical British theologian John A. T. Robinson. He hosted his own TV show in Chicago for over four years.

Pastor Lyons is also the author of the book called "The Revivals in the Bible" (Pleasant Word-A Division of WinePress Publishing/June 1, 2009).

You may reach Pastorn Vernon C. Lyons at Vernon.Lyons@ashburnbaptist.com.