Chattanooga resident David Wyke is familiar to many on Signal Mountain from the six years he worked as a trainer at Signal Mountain Athletic Club as well as the two years he coached sixth-grade football on the mountain.
He is embarking on a new guiding endeavor within the mountaintop community – though his focus is now on people’s spiritual lives rather than their physical performance.
Wyke recently took over as minister of Taft Highway Church of Christ, where he preached his first sermon on Christmas Eve.
“They were looking at trying to grow and advance the church,” David Wyke said of his brother Darrel Wyke – also a physical trainer who had been preaching at the church on Sunday nights – and former minister Clint Henley. “They asked me to come and do the work.”
David Wyke served as the minister at MLK Church of Christ in Adairsville, Ga., for two and a half years, but was happy to have a chance to preach closer to home where his wife and son could attend with him.