The Reverend Dr. Darryll H. Young was born and raised in New York City. He attended the High School of Music & Art and graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a double major in Sociology and Visual Arts in 1981. After moving to San Jose, California, he owned and operated "Focus Graphics" and worked as a silk-screen-printer and graphic artist. He graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1989 with a Master of Divinity degree. He was ordained on January 7, 1990.

Dr. Young served four years as Pastor of the Featherbed Lane Presbyterian Church in the Bronx. He served as Pastor of Trinity Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York from 1994 to 1998. He was the Interim Co-Pastor of Evangelism and Stewardship at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York for 25 months. He earned the Doctor of Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio in December of 2000. His doctoral dissertation is entitled "Transformation Through Proclamation and Leadership: Transcending Walls and Building Bridges." He served the Witherspoon Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey as Interim Pastor for eleven months.

Dr. Young began as Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Kansas City. Missouri, on October 1, 2001. He was Vice President of the Heartland Presbytery Urban Ministry Network and was on the Board of the Upper Room Ministries which oversaw the Community Summer Academic Camp and the Covenant Before and After School Program.

Dr. Young began as pastor of Siloam Presbyterian Church on June 1, 2004. He is married and has one daughter.

What Is My Mission?

By the Rev. Dr. Darryll H. Young

My mission at Siloam is to help heal the hurts and heighten the hopes of this church and community through the love and power of God.

This Mission and purpose can be accomplished when we work together to help others be healthy spiritually, psychologically, intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically and financially.

I believe God has called me to Siloam Presbyterian Church because this congregation has a real team spirit for evangelism and social action.

I resonate with Dr. Martin Luther King's statement, "The church should be a headlight pointing the way for the world and not a tailgate merely reflecting the world."

I am committed to congregational-based ministry and I bring a concern for excellence in worship and preaching, a love of teaching, a concern for individuals, and an ability to articulate the importance of social witness and outreach to the community in which I work.

I am guided by the Word of God found in the Scriptures, and my preaching style would be considered Biblical. The church characteristics I cherish are commitments to the great commandment and the great com-mission which Jesus Christ gave us. We are called to obey the great commandment which is: "Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbors as yourselves." And we are also called to obey the great commission which is: "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel."