Reverend Harold Poindexter Sr.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

      I came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior at the age of twenty-three and joined the family church, Antioch Baptist Church, Youngstown, Ohio. My wife and I have been married for forty-seven years. God has blessed us with three children.

     I am grateful and give thanks to God, who has given me the opportunity to prepare myself for the ministry, which he has called me. I also sincerely believe if God has prepared me for the ministry he has a place for me to serve. Plus I believe the pastor must live what he teach and preach, equip God's people for the work of the ministry, and win the lost to Christ. The pastor and the church must continue to grow in the knowledge, and the love, and the grace of God.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

Pastor  New Life Baptist Church, 501 N. Maple St, Athens, TX 75751, 1994-2000.

A building was purchases and paid off.

The membership went from six members to one hundred and nineteen members.

The Sunday School attendance went from four to twenty-nine.

The mission church was organized and constituted to church status.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Pastor / Broadview Missionary Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX 1991-93

Assistant Pastor/ Antioch Christian Joy Center Baptist Church, El Paso, TX 1990-91.

Associate Minister / Unity Missionary Baptist Church, El Paso, TX 1988-90.

Deacon /  Unity Missionary Baptist Church, El Paso, TX 1981-83.

EDUCATION

B.A., Theology                                                                                    2005

Anderson Ville Theological Seminary                   Camilla, GA

DIPLOMA, Theology                                                                         1993

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary                        Forth Worth, TX

GRADUATE DIPLOMA, Theology                                                  1993

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary                         Fort Worth, TX

LICENSES

Ordained Deacon - Unity Missionary Baptist Church, El Paso, TX, 1981

Licensed to the Ministry - Unity Missionary Baptist Church, El Paso, TX, 1983

Ordained to Ministry - Unity Missionary Baptist Church, El Paso, TX, 1987

MINISTY OBJECTIVE

to serve as Pastor in a Baptist Church.

MAJOR SECULAR EXPERIENCE

Retired United States Army (twenty years)

Retired truck driver

PERSONAL INFORMATION

BIRTH DATE:                        September 9, 1944

MARITAL STATUS:   Married Priscilla Miles

                                    April 3 1964

CHILDREN:               Harold, Jr.

                                    Jeffery Allen

                                    Lisa Rena

Reverend Poindexter before becoming pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, was an intricate part of the ministerial staff of the  Shiloh Baptist Church of El Paso, Texas. He was active in the Christian growth and development of the congregation in the following areas;

• Associate Minister enrichment and empowerment
• Bible study teacher
• Brotherhood adviser and teacher
• Proclamation of the preached Word
• Assistant to the Pastor in many areas of support
• Intercessory Prayer
• Evangelism and Outreach
• Pastoral Ministries (Ministry to the sick and shut in)
• Ministry to the elderly

His former Pastor Dr. Ponce L. Brown, seen him as a principle Barnabus (encourager) to the Shiloh congregation.