V. Neil Wyrick

V. Neil Wyrick, B.A., B.D.

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V. Neil Wyrick is an ordained Presbyterian minister/evangelist. He served twenty-one years in the pastorate in Virginia and Florida, and since 1971 has traveled the world as a dramatic evangelist. Beginning in 1992, he has also served three churches as Interim Pastor while continuing his dramatic, speaking and seminar ministry. He presently writes, speaks and presents his One Man Drams.

He has had nine books published, The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is his latest, authored and created nine one man dramas which he has presented over 8,000 times from coast to coast, in Europe, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. For twenty years, he wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled, The Why Of It all. Currently he writes a syndicated column, Senior Snippets. He has written and directed over one dozen Orange Bowl extravaganzas, both secular and sacred. He was Director of Radio/Television for the Miami Council of Churches and is President/Founder of Pageantry, Inc., The Church Without Walls.

He was written up in TIME magazine in 1962 for his creative talents and has had extensive radio and television experience as a moderator, newscaster and in professional spots. He was moderator of three radio programs; Family Line, Young Miami Speaks and Rap Around, all aired over WKAT (CBS) in Miami, Florida, and was moderator of the television series Man To Man on Miami's PBS station. In 1962, he also received the J.C.'s Outstanding Citizen's Award.

Neil is listed in: "Who's Who In America," "Who's Who In The South," "Contemporary Authors," "Historical Records Association" and in the 1967 edition of "Outstanding Personalities Of The South." As a professional artist he has had art works in three Miami galleries, is illustrator and cartoonist for three books and his own newspaper column.

Neil has traveled extensively throughout all fifty states, in England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, Greece, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, the Caribbean, Columbia, Venezuela, China and Panama.

He is an avid tennis player, enjoys playing the piano and practing art in many different forms. He has had art work hung in local art galleries. He has a private pilot's license and a glider rating.