Jay Strother
Senior Pastor at
Brentwood Baptist Church
About Jay
Jay Strother serves as the Senior Pastor of Brentwood Baptist. Previously, he served as the Campus and Teaching Pastor of The Church at Station Hill in Spring Hill, TN (a regional campus of Brentwood Baptist). Before that, he served as Brentwood Baptist’s Next Generation Minister, developing a family-equipping model for the spiritual formation of preschoolers, children, and students.
He’s a graduate of Greenville (IL) University (B.S. in Education), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Ed.Min. in Leadership).
He’s the author of Loving Well: Healthy Relationships (equippedchurch.es, 2016), a contributing author to Perspectives on Family Ministry (B&H, 2009), Trained in the Fear of God (Kregel, 2011), and an author of several small group and video resources. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a guest lecturer at seminaries. Jay and his wife Tanya have four daughters (including one Union University graduate and one current student), one son, and are passionate about Foster and Adoption Ministry. Jay enjoys good books, long hikes, strong coffee, and St. Louis Cardinals baseball.