Speaker: Rev. Dr. Joseph Daniels

Rev. Dr. Joseph Daniels, Jr., has served as the senior pastor of Emory United Methodist Church for the past 15 years.  He has focused on offering Jesus Christ locally, nationally and globally.  The Emory congregation has grown from an average of 70 people in weekly worship attendance to over 300 every Sunday.  During his leadership at Emory, the church has been awarded the "Kim Jefferson Northeast Jurisdictional Award" for effective urban ministry representing the United Methodist Church and has been selected as one of the 25 initiative churches in the "Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century" effort of the United Methodist Church.

For the past five years, Pastor Daniels has served as a delegate in mission service to churches in Zimbabwe and South Africa.  He is committed to a spirit of “peace on earth” confined not only to the local community he serves near Washington, D.C., or the United States of America.  He is an advocate for community development and believes that there can be healthy, wholesome, economically stable families and communities all over the world.  In addition Pastor Daniels is very active in community affairs and teaches at Wesley Theological Seminary in the Urban Ministry and Practice of Ministry and Missions programs. 

Pastor Daniels has been happily married to his wife Madelyn for the past 20 years, and has two children ages 19 and 17.

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