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'''Dennis Dale Bigham''', known as '''Dale Bigham''' (born April 4, 1952),<ref name=mylife>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/dale-bigham/dbigham72269dm|title=Dale Bingham|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref> is an [[Independent Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]. From 1981 until his retirement in 2015, he was the senior pastor of the Arden Road Baptist Church.

'''Dennis Dale Bigham''', known as '''Dale Bigham''' (born April 4, 1952),<ref name=mylife>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/dale-bigham/dbigham72269dm|title=Dale Bingham|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref> is an [[Independent Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]. From 1981 until his retirement in 2015, he was the senior pastor of the Arden Road Baptist Church.

In the 1970s, Bigham was employed by the Thorington Road Baptist Church, a [[Southern Baptist]] congregation in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Dale-Bigham/Amarillo-TX|title=Dale Bigham Amarillo, TX|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref> In 1981, while a church youth director, accepted the [[Pastor|pastorate]] of Grace Baptist Church in Amarillo, which in 1986 was relocated and expanded as the Arden Road Baptist Church. When Bigham became pastor, the church had twelve in attendance in one [[Sunday school]] and twenty-six in the congregation assembled for morning preaching. Bigham said the [[Lord Jesus Christ]] has called numerous persons from Arden Road Baptist Church to full-time service,. The church developed a significant missions program and grew from an average Sunday morning attendance of 93 in 1982 to more than 500.<ref name=ministries>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalebighamministries.org/baptist-times-2015.html|title=Dalebighamministries.org|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref>

In the 1970s, Bigham was employed by the Thorington Road Baptist Church, a [[Southern Baptist]] congregation in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Dale-Bigham/Amarillo-TX|title=Dale Bigham Amarillo, TX|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref> In 1981, while a church youth director, accepted the [[pastor]]ate of Grace Baptist Church in Amarillo, which in 1986 was relocated and expanded as the Arden Road Baptist Church. When Bigham became pastor, the church had twelve in attendance in one [[Sunday school]] and twenty-six in the congregation assembled for morning preaching. Bigham said the [[Lord Jesus Christ]] has called numerous persons from Arden Road Baptist Church to full-time service,. The church developed a significant missions program and grew from an average Sunday morning attendance of 93 in 1982 to more than 500.<ref name=ministries>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalebighamministries.org/baptist-times-2015.html|title=Dalebighamministries.org|accessdate=March 29, 2018}}</ref>

In 2013, Bigham began to contemplate retirement after then thirty-two years at Grace and Arden Road churches. He proposed to the deacons that [[Aaron Denson]], a former Arden Road youth pastor, who later pastored congregations in Hobbs, [[New Mexico]], and [[Lubbock]], Texas, be first considered to choose a new Arden Road pastor. After Denson agreed to return to the Amarillo congregation in 2015, when Bigham stepped down, two other contenders were not interviewed. Denson said: “It is an honor to follow the man I call pastor. By [[God]]’s grace it is our desire to carry on what God has been building for many, many years.”<ref name=ministries/>

In 2013, Bigham began to contemplate retirement after then thirty-two years at Grace and Arden Road churches. He proposed to the deacons that [[Aaron Denson]], a former Arden Road youth pastor, who later pastored congregations in Hobbs, [[New Mexico]], and [[Lubbock]], Texas, be first considered to choose a new Arden Road pastor. After Denson agreed to return to the Amarillo congregation in 2015, when Bigham stepped down, two other contenders were not interviewed. Denson said: “It is an honor to follow the man I call pastor. By [[God]]’s grace it is our desire to carry on what God has been building for many, many years.”<ref name=ministries/>