Gospel Priorities Preaching Series
Service All Church Event
We’ll kick off the new year with our annual Gospel Priorities series. Beginning January 7, we will hear from guest pastors during morning and evening worship on themes related to and discussed in Luke 4 as Jesus begins His public ministry. Join us these Sundays for worship as we refocus on those things which Jesus made a priority in His ministry, that we might make them a priority in ours.
Guest pastors include:
January 7, 2024: Sean Boone
Pastor, The Bridge North County, Ferguson, MO
Sean Boone is a passionate and dedicated pastor with a heart for serving others. Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, he experienced firsthand the challenges faced by underserved African-American communities, including addiction, abandonment, and abuse. These experiences led him down a path of gang involvement and drug dealing. However, through God's grace, Boone found redemption and turned his life around. After surrendering his life to Jesus, Boone was mentored and trained for a life of ministry at his family's church. He served as the Youth Pastor for four years before moving to St. Louis to become a Lead Pastor. Three years later, he felt called to church planting, a ministry that resonated with his passion for reaching people beyond traditional church walls. Boone is a Master of Divinity graduate pursuing a Doctorate in Ministry. He is married to his beloved wife, Taquella, and they have a blended family of five children and five grandchildren.
January 14, 2024: Vermon Pierre
Lead Pastor, Roosevelt Community Church, Pheonix, AZ
Vermon Pierre (B.A., Princeton University, M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the lead pastor at Roosevelt Community Church, a diverse multiethnic congregation in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of Gospel Shaped Living and a contributor to The New City Catechism Devotional, 15 Things Seminary Couldn't Teach Me, and Revisiting 'Faithful Presence': To Change the World Five Years Later. He is also the author of the upcoming book, Dearly Beloved: How God's Love for His Church Deepens Our Love for Each Other, which releases February 6th. He and his wife Dennae live in downtown Phoenix and have five children.
January 21, 2024: Joe Kim
Lead Church Planter, Hope Philly, Philadelphia, PA
Joe Felix Kim is the lead planter of Hope Philly in Philadelphia, PA. Joe was ordained as a Teaching Elder in the EPC in 2015, and before church planting, has served as the English Ministry pastor of Korean churches in New Jersey and New York. Joe is married to Emii and has 2 beautiful daughters, Norah (7) and Naomi (1). Emii in particular is an advocate of special needs ministry as Norah is on the autism spectrum. It was Emii who taught Joe that Norah isn’t someone to apologize for getting in the way of ministry. Instead, Norah and his family ARE his ministry; a ministry from which all other ministries can flow. Joe has served on various committees in the EPC. In 2017, he joined the Ministerial Committee in the Presbytery of the East. In 2018, he was named the Chair of Candidate’s Care. In 2021, he was placed on the Ministerial Vocation Committee.
January 28, 2024: Walter Strickland
Teaching Pastor, Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, NC
Walter R. Strickland II (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is teaching pastor at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, NC, and assistant professor of theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has co-authored and contributed to over 10 books including his forthcoming Swing Low: A History of Black Christianity in the United States. He is a host on White Horse Inn and an entrepreneur having founded Cultural Engagement and Aptree Learning. He lives in the Raleigh area with his wife and children.