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Michael-Ray Mathews We welcome longtime Alliance member Reverend Michael-Ray Mathews as the proclaimer in worship on Friday night and are grateful for his leadership.
Michael-Ray is the Director of Outreach and Recruitment for the PICO National Network, a faith-based network of over 1000 congregations engaged in community organizing in over 150 cities in the United States. A native of Los Angeles, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences and Communications from the University of Southern California and a Master of Divinity degree from the American Baptist Seminary of the West and the Graduate Theological Union – Berkeley. Rev. Mathews is a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry degree at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif. His dissertation project is an introductory pastoral theology for pastors engaged in faith-based community organizing.
This year, Michael-Ray celebrates twenty-one years of pastoral ministry. An ordained American Baptist minister, his early ministry leadership experiences began at Trinity Baptist Church – Los Angeles where he served as Assistant Financial Secretary and Operations Manager. He has also served as Campus Minister for the American Baptist Campus Ministry at USC; Youth Pastor at Temple Baptist Church – Los Angeles; Minister of Outreach at Beth Eden Baptist Church – Oakland; and Program Associate for Contextual/Field Education at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Most recently, he served as the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church of San José, California.
Michael-Ray is married to Dené Murray-Mathews, a telecommunications engineer with AT&T Mobility in Pleasanton, Calif. They are the proud parents of eleven-year old Kenan Michael Mathews.
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