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Executive
Director
Queens Federation of Churches
The Reverend N. J.
L'Heureux, Jr.
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He holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and from Boston University School of Theology where his studies focused on sociology of religion and social ethics. Ordained by The United Methodist Church in 1969, Pastor L'Heureux served churches in Northport, Long Island, and in Maspeth, Queens, before being called by the Queens Federation of Churches in 1978 to become its third executive director.
A special focus of his ministry with the Queens Federation of Churches has been the prophetic role of the church in the social order. His work emphasizes the inclusiveness of God's Covenant across the boundaries of race, nationality, or class. He is an advocate of the right of religious people to proclaim their message and to seek their adherents without the impediment of government-enforced sanction. He has exposed for remediation widespread government practices which interfere with the Church's ability to plan and manage its own ministry.
Pastor L'Heureux is an active religious leader in New York City. He is past chairman of the Committee of Religious Leaders in the City of New York and continues to chair the New York State Interfaith Commission on Landmarking of Religious Property. He is president of the Queens Interfaith Hunger Network, publisher/editor of The Nexus of Queens (the online newspaper of the Queens Federation of Churches), chairman of Tri-State Media Ministries, past chairman of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing, secretary of the Board of Directors of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, and secretary of the Commission of Religious Leaders of New York City.
His national leadership includes 13 years of service as Registrar of the National Association of Ecumenical and Interreligious Staff. He is currently moderator of the Committee on Religious Liberty of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and a member of its Justice and Advocacy Commission. He has participated in international conferences for religious freedom in several European countries and an ecumenical delegation inquiring into accusations of the persecution of Christians in Egypt which was officially received by President Hosni Mubarak.
He has served and continues to work with a number of other committees, organizations and task forces which seek to make justice the way of life for all of God's children.