Eighth Sunday After Pentecost

Date:

Sunday, July 23, 2023, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Location:

The Memorial Church Sanctuary

Preacher: The Rev. Art J. Gordon, Pastor of St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Boston.

Rev. Art J. Gordon is a fourth generation pastor, born and raised in Georgia. After graduating from Savannah State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History, he moved to Boston to attend the Boston University School of Theology where he received his Master of Divinity Degree in 2016. While a student at the School of Theology, he was the Vice President of the Student Association, a Worship Intern in Marsh Chapel, and received the Donald A. Well Prize for Preaching. In 2017, he was called to lead Roxbury's St. John Missionary Baptist Church as the youngest elected pastor in the church's history. Under his leadership he has overseen a community scholarship fund and the church was both a COVID testing site as well as vaccine site during the pandemic.

Passionate about religion and politics, Rev. Gordon was engaged in local politics and several civic engagement opportunities across Boston. He served on Senator Ed Markey's 2020 re-election campaign and was most recently the Senior Advisor to Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-7). He is a New Leaders Council Fellow, a 2018 Seminarian Fellow for Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and is currently a Doctor of Ministry student focusing on Transformational Leadership at BU School of Theology. He has served on several local boards, received several community based awards. He is married to Portsha Franklin-Gordon and father to Jaxyn P. Gordon.

Rev. Gordon believes deeply in the power of faith and politics to create avenues of systemic change in urban communities across Greater Boston.

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