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Rev. Dr.
Gardner C. Taylor, born on June 18,
1918, as the only child of an educated mother
and a Baptist preacher father in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Gardner Calvin Taylor began on the
path that would eventually lead to becoming the
influential senior pastor of the Concord Baptist
Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York. His
peers named him the greatest African American
preacher and one of America's greatest preachers
in Ebony in 1993. President Bill Clinton agreed
in 2000 when he bestowed upon Taylor the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Despite his background, Taylor was agnostic
until his involvement in a 1937 car accident in
which a white man died. Consequently, he
enrolled in the Oberlin Graduate School of
Theology in 1937, where he met and married Laura
Bell Scott. They have one daughter, Martha.
While still in school, he preached at Bethany
Baptist Church in Oberlin, Ohio, from 1938 to
1941.
Taylor actively advocated civil rights as pastor
for four churches. He sought the presidency of
the National Baptist Church Convention in 1961,
and after losing, he and his followers formed
the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
Taylor taught at prominent divinity schools,
including Harvard and Yale. Now senior pastor
emeritus of Concord, he has traveled extensively
around the world and uses all his experiences in
his preaching.
Rev. Dr. Otis
Moss, III
currently serves as pastor of The Historic
Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia.
Since his arrival in 1997, Tabernacle has been
blessed, through Christ, to add new disciples
and a variety of new ministries designed to
strengthen families and develop youth.
Rev. Moss received his BA in Religion and
Philosophy from Morehouse College where he
served as Student Government President. During
his matriculation at "the House," he was
inducted as a Ford Foundation Scholar, named by
the NCAA as an All-American Track and Field
athlete and graduated with honors.
He continued graduate work at Yale University
and was awarded the FTE Benjamin Elijah Mays
Scholarship in Religion and the Yale University
Magee Fellowship. Rev. Moss is recorded as one
of the few African-Americans to ever receive
this award in the schools' 300-year history.
Rev. Moss graduated from Yale with a Master of
Divinity degree with a concentration in Ethics
and Theology.
After finishing seminary, Rev. Moss journeyed to
Denver, Colorado to pursue a Ph.D. in Religion
and Social Change at the University of Denver/Iliff
School of Theology, under the tutelage of
African-American historian and theologian, Dr.
Vincent Harding. While in Denver, he continued
his ministry to youth and young adults as the
assistant to the pastor and Minister of Youth
Programs at New Hope Baptist Church. Pastor
James D. Peters, D.Min; became a mentor to Rev.
Moss and inspired a love for African-American
homiletics and church history.
Rev. Moss has done extensive research in the
areas of African-American culture, theology and
youth development. Four-G published his first
book, Redemption in a Red Light District, in
December of 1999. His essays, articles and
poetry have appeared in The African American
Pulpit-journal, Sojourners magazine, and the
Urban Spectrum. The African American Pulpit
Journal recently named Reverend Moss one of the
"20 to watch" young ministers who will shape the
future of the African American church.
His passion for youth ministry led him to design
the "Kabasia Rites of Passage Program" for youth
development. This program contains a
comprehensive Christ-centered, Afro-centric
curriculum designed to assist in the development
of African-American youth.
His love for God and young people has led him to
speak and preach in churches, seminaries and
colleges across the globe; Including places such
as South Africa, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Egypt.
Newsweek magazine recently cited Rev. Moss as
one of "God's foot Soldiers" committed to
transforming the lives of youth. He is the
husband of Monica Brown Moss and the son of Dr.
Otis (Edwina) Moss, Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio. They
have one son, Elijah Wynton Taylor Moss and one
daughter, Makayla Elon Moss.
In addition, Rev. Moss still finds time to serve
his community. He serves on the board of the
United Way of the CSRA, Clerical advisor of the
PBS documentary The Spirituals Project, member
NAACP, Vice President of the Augusta Baptist
Ministers' Conference, member New Era State
Baptist Convention, Progressive National Baptist
Convention, board member Lucy Craft Laney Museum
of Black History of Augusta and a member of the
Rainbow/Push Coalition of Georgia 1000 churches
united.
Reverend Dr.
James E. Arnette
is Pastor Emeritus of
Metropolitan Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, N.C.
He served this congregation for twenty-six
years. On July 1, 1996, President Talbert O.
Shaw appointed Dr. Arnette Dean of Shaw Divinity
School in Raleigh, N.C. The Shaw Divinity School
received its ATS accreditation and merged with
the University under his leadership. Presentle
he serves as adjunct professor of Christian
Worship.
Dr. Arnette is a native
North Carolinian and received his early
education in the public schools of the state. He
is a graduate of Shaw University, The Shaw
University School of Religion and the Johnson C.
Smith Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C. and
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake
Forest, N.C., having received the Doctor of
Ministry degree from the latter.
Dr. Arnette has pastored
the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Biscoe, N.C.,
Nazareth Baptist Church, Wagram, N.C., and Piney
Grove Baptist Church, Evergreen, N.C. He also
served as Chaplain of The O'Berry Center,
Goldsboro, N.C. for over fourteen years. Other
professional experiences include: Serving as
"Supply Pastor" of several churches in the
Goldsboro area, Volunteer Chaplain at Wayne
Memorial and Nash General Hospitals, Instructor,
Seminary Extension Department, Visiting
Professor, Black Theology, Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, and adjunct professor,
Shaw Divinity School.
Dr. Arnette is affiliated
with several organizations, among which is the
General Baptist State Convention of N.C., Inc.
and the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missionary
Convention. While serving as Pastor of
Metropolitan Church he as affiliated with the
Neuse River Missionary Baptist Association,
Rocky Mount Minster's Conference, Nash-Edgecombe
Mental Health Association and the NAACP. His
community services included: Boy Scout Council,
Boys Club Board, O.I.C. Board, Rocky Mount Human
Relations Commission, Rocky Mount Board of
Education and Board of Directors, Visions, Inc.
Dr. Arnette is married to
Retha Parnell Arnette of Charlotte, N.C. They
have three children: Ms. Juanita B. Falls, Mrs.
Delores A. Cochrane and Thomas Evan Arnette.
They have four grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
Reverend
Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. is one of
America's most influential religious leaders and
highly sought-after public speakers. A native of
the state of Georgia, Moss was born on February
26, 1935 and was raised in the community of
LaGrange. The son of Magnolia Moss and Otis
Moss, Sr. and the fourth of their five children,
he earned his B.A. degree from Morehouse College
in 1956 and his M.Div. degree from the Morehouse
School of Religion/Interdenominational
Theological Center in 1959. He also completed
special studies at the Inter-Denominational
Theological Center from 1960 to 1961 and earned
his D.Min. degree in
ministry from the United Theological Seminary in
1990.
From 1954 to 1959, Moss served as pastor of the
Mount Olive Baptist Church in LaGrange, Georgia.
From 1956 to 1961, he also served as pastor of
Atlanta's Providence Baptist Church and
therefore, simultaneously led two congregations
from 1956 to 1959. From 1961 to 1975, he
pastored the Mount Zion Baptist Church in
Lockland, Ohio, and in 1971, he served as
co-pastor, with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
Sr., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In
1975, he was called to pastor Olivet
Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio,
where he continues today.
Moss has been involved in advocating civil and
human rights and social justice issues for most
of his adult life. Having been a staff member of
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he
currently serves as a national board member and
trustee for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
for Non-Violent Social Change. His work in the
international community has taken him to Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. He also traveled as a
member of a clergy mission to the Far East in
1970 and to Israel in 1978. In 1994, he was the
special guest of President William Jefferson
Clinton at the Peace Treaty signing between
Israel and Jordan, and, in that same year, he
led a special mission to South Africa.
Moss is the recipient of numerous awards and
honors, including Human Relations Award from
Bethune Cookman College in 1976, The Role Model
of the Year Award from the National Institute
for Responsible Fatherhood and Family
Development in 1992, Leadership Award from the
Cleveland chapter of the American Jewish
Committee in 1996, and an Honorary Doctor of
Divinity from LaGrange College in 2004. In 2004,
he participated in the Oxford Round Table in
Oxford, England and was a guest presenter for
the Lyman Beecher Lecture series at Yale
University.
Moss is married to the former Edwina Hudson
Smith. They have three children, Kevin, Daphne
(deceased), and Otis, III.
Reverend Dr. H. Beecher Hicks,
Jr., is a native of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, the son of the late Reverend Dr. H.
Beecher, Sr. and Mrs. Eleanor Frazier Hicks. He
was licensed and ordained to the Gospel Ministry
by the Mount Olivet Baptist Church of Columbus,
Ohio.
He is an honor graduate of the University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and a recipient of the
Rockefeller Protestant Fellowship, graduating
from Colgate Rochester Divinity School in May
1967. Selected as one of the original Martin
Luther King Fellows at the Colgate Rochester
Divinity School in 1972, Dr. Hicks earned the
Doctor of Ministry in Theology degree in 1975.
In 1994 Dr. Hicks received the coveted
Merrill Fellowship for post-graduate study at
the Harvard Divinity School, and in 1999 he
received his Master’s Degree in Business
Administration from the George Washington
University.
Dr. Hicks served as Senior Minister of Second
Baptist Church, Mumford, New York; Mount Ararat
Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and
the Antioch Missionary Church of Christ in
Houston, Texas. Since June 1977, Dr. Hicks
has served as the fifth minister in the 141-year
history of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, the
membership of which exceeds 6,000. He is widely
published in religious publications and has
authored seven books; the two most popular
volumes of which are Preaching Through a Storm
[1987, 12th printing] and My Soul’s Been
Anchored [1998]. His most recent writing is
entitled On Jordan’s Stormy Banks, published in
2004, featuring a series of writings on "Leading
Your Congregation through the Wilderness of
Change." In November 1993, Ebony Magazine honored
Dr. Hicks with his selection as one of
America’s Fifteen Greatest Black Preachers. In
January 2000, Dr. Hicks was selected to be
the keynote preacher for the prestigious Baptist
World Alliance in Melbourne, Australia. Most
recently Dr. Hicks was honored by the Howard
University School of Medicine for his leadership
in and promotion of the connection between
spirituality and medicine.
The leadership of Dr. Hicks in the
Metropolitan Church has produced the founding of
the Metropolitan Day School, and
Afro-centric/Christian elementary school, grades
pre-K through 6, the Metropolitan Community
Development Corporation and IAMA, Inc., a
non-profit Christian Counseling ministry. Dr.
Hicks served a vital role in the creation of the
Metropolitan/Delta Adult Literacy program that
provides literacy training for adults and
families throughout the greater Washington, D.C.
community. The Metropolitan Church, under the
leadership of Dr. Hicks, is currently engaged
in an effort to erect a $30 million dollar
sanctuary and related facilities on a 34-acre
campus in Largo, Maryland.
Dr. Hicks is married to the former Elizabeth
Harrison of Selma, Alabama. They are the parents
of H. Beecher Hicks, III, the Reverend Ivan
Douglas Hicks, and Kristin Elizabeth Hicks. They
are also the proud grandparents of twin
granddaughters, Austynn and Ashley Hicks, and
grandsons, Henry, IV and Harrison Patton Hicks.
Rev. Dr. Daniel L. Akin
became the sixth president of Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary on Jan. 15, 2004,
after a unanimous vote of election by the
seminary’s Board of Trustees.
Known by many as a strong leader, brilliant
scholar, zealous evangelist, compelling
preacher, exemplary husband and father, and
genuine man of God, Akin, 47, is admired and
respected by many Southern Baptists for his
dedication to his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
and his commitment to teach and proclaim His
Word.
Akin, who previously served at Southeastern as
assistant professor of theology and dean of
students from 1992-1996, was vice president for
academic administration/dean of the school of
theology at The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Ky., a position he held
until his return to Southeastern.
After earning a bachelor of arts in biblical
studies from Criswell College in 1980, Akin went
on to earn both a master of divinity degree from
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
1983 and a doctor of philosophy in humanities
from the University of Texas at Arlington in
1989.
His experience includes serving 10 churches in
Texas, Florida, Alabama and Virginia in both
interim and full-time capacities. He has also
authored numerous articles and several books
including Epistles of John appearing in the
New American Commentary, "Song of Solomon",
appearing in the Holman Bible Commentary, and
God on Sex.
Rev. Dr. Ivan Douglas Hicks
has served as the Senior Minister of the
historic First Baptist Church North
Indianapolis, Indiana since April of 1999. Prior
to moving to Indianapolis, Pastor Hicks served
as assistant to Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. at his
home church, Metropolitan Baptist Church, in
Washington, D.C., while his father, the Senior
Dr. Hicks, earned his MBA. He was retained and
served as the Assistant Minister/Chief Operating
Officer at Bright Hope Baptist Church in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Congressman
William H. Gray, III is the Senior Minister. He
served faithfully for three years, from May of
1994 until June of 1997.
In August of 2003, Dr. Hicks earned the Doctor
of Philosophy Degree in African American Studies
from Temple University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Renowned scholar, Molefi Kete
Asante, provided mentorship to Dr. Hicks in his
course work and dissertation preparation.
"Centering African American Religion: Toward an
Afrocentric Analysis" is the publication that is
the result of Dr. Hicks’ terminal matriculation.
Since 2000, Ivan Douglas Hicks has served as
Resource Consultant for the Indianapolis Center
for Congregations. At this organization,
established through the Alban Institute by the
Lilly Endowment, Hicks serves as a retained
consultant, working on specific development
initiatives with and for Indianapolis churches,
synagogues and other faith organizations.
Pastor Hicks sits on the Board of the
Indianapolis Urban League, and has for the past
three years served as both the Chair of the
Indianapolis Church Campaign and the Major Gifts
Committee, for the Indianapolis branch of the
United Negro College Fund. Additionally, Dr.
Hicks is the Co-Chair of Celebration of Hope, an
ecumenical organization of Indianapolis
congregations that is intentional about tearing
down racial barriers, and building bridges of
racial reconciliation.
Rev. Hicks graduated from the United Theological
Seminary in Dayton, Ohio where he received a
Master of Divinity Degree in 1994. He will begin
teaching a group of students in August 2005 at
United, in the Doctor of Ministry program. Ivan
Hicks is also a proud alum of Morehouse College
in Atlanta, Georgia. While matriculating, he was
a campus leader, having founded the Morehouse
Mentoring Program in the Fall of 1989. Recently,
in April of 2004, Pastor Hicks returned to the
Morehouse Campus to be inducted onto the
Morehouse Board of Preachers at The Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. Toward
the end of his collegiate matriculation, Ivan
Douglas was elected and remains the President of
the Morehouse Class of 1991.
Ivan Douglas Hicks resides in the city of
Indianapolis with his bride of eight years,
Christia Lynett Hicks. They are the proud
parents of engaging twin daughters Austynn Lene'
and Ashley Rene'.
Rev. Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant
is a pastor with a global mission, which is to
Empower the World Through the Word. He believes
that the body of Christ should be empowered in
every area of life. His preaching and teaching
focuses on empowering believers spiritually,
developing them educationally, exposing them
culturally, activating them politically and
strengthening them economically.
Prior to his role as pastor, Reverend Bryant
served as the director of the NAACP's youth and
college division. A dynamic motivational
speaker, he was responsible for over 650 youth
councils and college chapters, representing over
68,000 young people in the United States,
Germany and Japan. During his tenure, he held
the "Stop The Violence, Start The Love Crusade",
and organized the HBCU speaking tour, "Youth At
Risk." His contributions have been highlighted
in numerous publications, including Emerge,
Sister To Sister, USA Today, and The Source.
Reverend Bryant has appeared on BET, CNN,
C-Span, and Politically Incorrect. He also
served as a panelist on the national town hall
meeting, "The State of Black America", and "The
State of the Black Church", hosted by Tavis
Smiley. According to Ebony Magazine, he is one
of America's future leaders.
While Reverend Bryant has distinguished himself
and attained great accomplishments, it is
noteworthy that he failed the 11th grade and
dropped out of high school. However, he later
obtained a GED certificate and went on to
further his education. He received a bachelor's
degree in Political Science and International
Studies, from Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia, and earned a master of divinity degree
from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
This year Reverend Bryant completed a Ph.D. in
Theology at Oxford University in Great Britain.
With a mission to "Empower the World Through the
Word", the "Power for Life" broadcast is heard
weekly across the United States, the Caribbean,
England and throughout the continent of Africa.
In 2003, The Empowerment Academy, an elementary
school for grades Pre-K through 2nd, and The
Empowerment Temple Family Life Center opened its
doors to serve the community. The church has
also registered more voters than any other
church in Baltimore City.
After three years of worshiping in several
locations, a banquet hall, a college campus and
a high school auditorium, on February 15, 2004,
the Empowerment temple congregation triumphantly
marched into its new 2,000 seat sanctuary
located in Baltimore City. In spite of the
awesome anointing on his life, Rev. Bryant is
still modest enough to "keep it real." His
humility allows him to connect with those from
age seven to seventy.
He is the proud husband of First Lady Gizelle
Bryant, and a devoted father to his precious
little ladies, Topaz and Grace. No matter how he
is described, Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant is
"Empowering the World Through the Word."
Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams
Bryant was awarded a B.A. in
International Relations and an M.A. in
Political Theory from Boston University (’68.
’70). She is the recipient of a Masters Degree
from Howard University School of Theology (’83).
Paul Quinn College conferred upon Rev. Bryant
the Honorary Doctor of Humanities in 1998.
Her ministries to women began in New England and
have spread throughout the United States,
Canada, England, Amsterdam, Israel, Jamaica, The
Bahamas, Bermuda, Guyana, Ghana and Nigeria.
Rev. Bryant has established Women’s Resource and
Development Centers in Baltimore Maryland,
Houston Texas, Liberia, The Ivory Coast and Free
Town Sierre Leone. The Center in Sierre Leone
has been named in her Honor. Dr. “C” has
established schools for children in Cambridge
Massachusetts, Dallas Texas and a primary school
in Grand Bassa Liberia that bears her name. In
January 2003. Dr. “C” initiated the Children of
Promise Housing Mission for 30 children in Cape
Town, South Africa. A newly constructed early
childhood education center has been named in her
honor in Seattle, Washington.
In 2000, Dr. “C” organized the OSUSU (Women
Creating Wealth) Campaign in 15 states on the
West Coast of the United States. This represents
a continuation of her commitment to eliminate
poverty from the lives of women and children.
Financial literacy, debt elimination, home
ownership, from Welfare to work, Investment and
Global possibilities anchor this movement.
Each of Dr. “C’s” four publications is designed
to strengthen the Spiritual foundations of women
as they make life-transforming decisions:
Kiamsha, Kujua, I Dance With GOD, OSUSU.
Dr. “C” is the wife of Right Reverend John
Richard Bryant, the 106th Consecrated Bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the
mother of Rev. Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant and Dr.
Thema Simone Bryant-Davis (PhD).
Bishop John Richard Bryant
is the son of the late Bishop Harrison James
(82) and Edith Holland Bryant. He was elected
and consecrated the 106th Bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church at the 1988 General
Conference in Forth Worth, Texas.
He has taken seriously the words “Study to shew
thyself approved…"
*Morgan State University – B.A., 1965
*Boston University School of Theology – M.Th.,
1970
*Colgate Rochester Divinity School – D.Min.,
1975
He also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Paul
Quinn College, Payne Theological Seminary and
Virginia Seminary. He received the Outstanding
Alumnus Award from both Boston University School
of theology and Morgan State University. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame of his High
School, Baltimore City College.
“The spirit of the Lord is upon me…” is
reflected in the witness of John Richard Bryant.
He has pastured three (3) churches: Bethel
A.M.E. Church, Fall River, MA, St. Paul A.M.E.
Church, Cambridge, MA and Bethel A.M.E. Church,
Baltimore, MD. With an emphasis on church
growth, community development and political
empowerment, he has preached and/or taught on
more than 25 college campuses. Preached on five
continents and was a Peace Corps volunteer in
West Africa from 1965 to 1967.
“Who will go for us? Here am I, send me…” is the
living testimony of John Richard Bryant. The
Gospel is being proclaimed as he preaches not
only in the major cities, but also in the towns,
villages and hamlets throughout the United
States and the world.
Bishop John serves on several boards, including
the Interdenominational Theological Seminary
(Atlanta, Georgia), the Congress of National
Black Churches (Washington, DC), South Dallas
Accents, the Nation Church Advisory Council of
the American Bible Society, and Vice President,
North American Section, World Methodist Council.
In 1988, Bishop John Richard Bryant was assigned
to the 14th Episcopal District (West Africa)
where he presided over 101 churches and 25
schools. He was given the additional assignment
of the 10th Episcopal District (Texas) in
January 1991. The Episcopal Committee of the
44th Session of the General Conference A.M.E.
Church, (July, 1992) assigned him to preside
over the 10th Episcopal District, there he
presided over 300 churches where he served
faithfully. In July 2000, the Episcopal
Committee of the 46th General Conference
assigned him to the 5th Episcopal District,
where he presides over the A.M.E. Churches in 14
states West of the Mississippi.
Honors, Awards and Accomplishments: Bishop John
has received the Boston Jaycee’s Outstanding
Young Man’s Award, the Delta’s Outstanding
Achievement Award, an award from Prince Hall
Masons and is listed on Ebony Magazine’s Honor
Roll of Outstanding African American Preachers.
In 1997, he published a collection of sermons
entitled God Can: Sermons of Encouragement
from the Life of Elijah.
Bishop John is married to Rev. Dr. Cecelia
Williams Bryant and the father of Dr. Jamal
Harrison Bryant and Thema Simone Bryant, Ph.D.
Bishop J. Douglas Wiley
was influenced from the very beginning by a
prayerful and devoted mother, Lena M. Wiley and
the rarefied atmosphere of the local church.
With this foundation he heard the call to preach
the Word of God at the tender age of seven. This
was the beginning of an exciting spiritual
adventure.
Educated in the public school systems of
Pensacola, Florida and Flint, Michigan, he was
active in Student Government. In 1973 he was
selected by the Michigan Board of Education as a
delegate to the William Randolph Hearst Senate
Youth Program in Washington, D.C. Through the
travel study program of John Wesley College in
Owosso, Michigan he had the opportunity to
travel to Israel in 1979. In the same year, he
graduated John Wesley College with a Bachelor of
Arts in Theology.
In 1981 J. Douglas Wiley was called as Senior
Pastor of the Greater Morning Star Baptist
Church of Mount Clemens, Michigan. In
recognition of his achievements in 1993 the
Union Baptist Theological Seminary of
Birmingham, Alabama bestowed upon Pastor Wiley a
Doctorate of Divinity Degree.
Pastor Wiley married the former Lisa Vanessa
Reese of Mount Clemens, Michigan. They have
three children, Kourtney Olan, Aisha Elizabeth
and Alicia Felise. They have one grandchild,
Kavon Dalen Wiley.
After twelve years at the Greater Morning Star
Church, Pastor and Mrs. Wiley set out for a new
home and to begin a new church. On November 26,
1993 with the support of Bishop Paul S. Morton,
Sr., and the Greater Saint Stephen Full Gospel
Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana, the
Life Center Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral was
born in Gretna, Louisiana.
Life Center has a membership enrollment of over
13,000 with four Sunday worship services, two
Mid-Week services every Thursday and a Saturday
Service. The church has an administrative staff
of 21 full and part-time employees. The Lead Men
of Life, Women of Life, Life Center for Biblical
Studies, five choirs, a radio and television
outreach ministry, a Saturday Sabbath
Celebration, and a Street Witnessing
Evangelistic Team are among the thirty-two
ministries of this active, growing congregation.
Life Center demonstrates its concerns for the
larger community with its adoption and support
of the William J. Fischer Elementary School, a
Tutorial Program, a Clothes-Give-A-Way Program,
a Food Pantry, an Annual Health Fair, an Annual
Life-Against AIDS Walk-A-Thon, and the J.
Douglas Wiley Save the Children Fund.
In January 1994, Pastor Wiley was consecrated to
the office of Bishop in the Full Gospel Baptist
Church Fellowship where he serves as National
Secretary and Southern Regional Prelate. Bishop
Wiley was listed in the International Who's Who
in 1996.
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