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Pastor John K. Jenkins, Sr.

Executive Council Chairman of the Wheaton College African American Church Evangelism Institute


Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover and Upper Marlboro, Maryland. He has been leading the church since 1989. He is also the president of Converge, becoming the first African American to lead the organization, and is the Co-founder and Executive Council Chairman of the Wheaton College African American Church Evangelism Institute since 2020.

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