WEST PARIS — Pastor Scott Randolph will mark his ninth Sunday at the West Paris Baptist Church by holding an outing at the town ballpark this weekend.

Randolph said children and parents alike are invited to come to the ballpark on High Street at 10:30 a.m. Sunday for games, a short message and hamburgers and hot dogs. The festivities will end promptly at noon.

This is the first activity planned to reach children who are not enrolled in a church program.

Scott Randolph succeeds Pastor Bruce Tyner, who retired May 2.

Trustees are creating an office in the basement of the church where Randolph can counsel people.

Randolph said he and and his wife, Jenny, returned from a mission to Brazil a year ago and didn’t know what God had planned for them and their three children. About the same time, Tyner announced he would be retiring in May 2010.

Toward the end of a yearlong search for a pastor, the search committee was made aware of Randolph’s name and the church voted in April to call him to the job.

The family resides in Hartford.

Scott and Jenny graduated from the New Tribes Bible Institute in Wisconsin, majoring in cultural studies. They served 10 years in Brazil and taught in a missionary children’s school.

“The culture in West Paris is much different from that in Brazil. I want to find out the needs in the community and try to lead our church to fill that need,” Scott said.

Jenny teaches piano at home and does substitute teaching in schools. Their daughter Emma is in kindergarten at Hartford-Sumner Elementary and sons Laney and Jonathan will be attending the junior high school in the fall.