Baypines District Superintendent
Frederick G. Outlaw is a native of Decatur, Alabama graduating from Lakeside High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Athens (AL) College in 1976. He is a graduate of Gammon Theological Seminary/Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia receiving a Masters of Divinity, 1979. Also, he is a graduate of Tuskegee University receiving a Masters of Education in Educational Personnel Administration.
Frederick was ordained a deacon in the North Alabama Annual Conference, 1977 and ordained an elder in North Alabama 1980. While in North Alabama, he served the Ashville (AL) Circuit and Enon United Methodist Church -Birmingham, AL.
In January 1985, he transferred to the Alabama-West Florida Conference to serve the Bowen UMC-Tuskegee Institute, AL. From June 1997 – May 2004, Frederick served as pastor of Toulminville – Warren Street United Methodist church in Mobile, Alabama. On June 9, 2004, he was appointed by Bishop Larry Goodpaster to serve as the Superintendent of the Baypines District of the Alabama-West Florida Conference.
Frederick taught Church History, Theology and Ethics at Miles College and Lawson State Community College, Birmingham, Alabama, 1980-1984.
From 1983-2003, he served as a study leader in regional and annual conference Schools of Christian Missions within the United Methodist Church.
Frederick has preached and studied missions in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. In April 1993, he was a guest of the Methodist Church of Cuba, preaching in Havanna and represented the United Methodist Church in establishing relationships between the two Methodists bodies.
In May 1994, he was a North American delegate to the first Pan African Methodist Regional Evangelism Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Frederick has served as a delegate to the 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, and 1992 General and Jurisdictional Conferences of the the United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Amanda, were delegates to the 1996 World Methodist Conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
In 1998,he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Gammon Theological Seminary. He presently serves as a trustee or director on boards of the United Methodist Foundation, Alabama-West Florida; Dumas Wesley Community Center; the Interdenominatonal Theological Center; and Gammon Theological Seminary.
For 38 years, he has been married to Amanda Kay Carr of Birmingham, AL. Amanda is employed as the regional agent for Urban and Non-Traditional Programs of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System - Mobile. They are the proud parents of three children, two daughters and one son: Johanna Kenese, a computer engineer; Rashida Asha, a middle school teacher; and Ahmed Asim, a computer informaton systems analyst, and three grandchildren.
