Outstanding Leadership in Queens
2002 Honoree of the Queens Federation of Churches

The Rev. Dr. Dwight McCauley Jackson

 
The Rev. Dr. Dwight McCauley Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his early training in the public and private schools of Atlanta, Georgia. He continued his education and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cum Laude, from Morehouse College in Atlanta; Master of Arts Degree in Urban Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh; Master of Divinity Degree, with honors, from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary of Philadelphia. The United Theological Seminary in Monroe, Louisiana, conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him. Pastor Jackson has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Western Europe. He did further studies at Roberts College in Istanbul, Turkey.

He was installed as Pastor of Amity Baptist Church, Jamaica, in April 1986. In his ministry at Amity, he has brought over 1,000 souls to Christ; enhanced stewardship; developed leadership training programs; deployed three new vans; renovated the main sanctuary; renovated and dedicated two Human Service Commission buildings. Pastor Jackson has organized new ministries touching the lives of children, youth, adults, and seniors with programs to meet various human and spiritual needs. He has been recognized as Pastor of a church with the most significant annual support of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center of Non-Violence for Social Change.

Clearly, Pastor Jackson recognizes both the human and spiritual dimension of the person created in God's holy image. His ministry has provided creative leadership within the congregation and in the community to serve the whole person.

Dwight Jackson is a strong supporter of the United Negro College Fund and serves as the General Chairman of the Queens Borough Campaign. He has served as Vice Chairman of the York College Foundation Board and as a member of the Finance and Property Committee of the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York. He is an Area Vice President in the Empire Baptist Missionary Convention, and served as Campaign Finance Chair for the Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson Campaign for President of the National Baptist Convention, Inc. He was recently appointed President of CUSH (Churches United to Save and to Heal).
 
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