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Reverend J.A. Jefferson
The author has studied the Bible from the time he was solemnly and publicly set apart in 1985 and ordained to the work of the gospel ministry by the authority and order of the Sixteenth Street Bapt...view moreThe author has studied the Bible from the time he was solemnly and publicly set apart in 1985 and ordained to the work of the gospel ministry by the authority and order of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church under Reverend Curtis Kyle. He was publicly ordained in 1990 to the work of the Gospel Ministry to the views of the Holy Bible and the Christian Faith of the Pentecostal Church.
The author received instruction in Part I and II of the Old and New Testament at Howard University in 1977. He was a member of the 1988 Ministry Class at the Jericho Christian Training Center, Washington, DC; attended Chaplain Moral Leadership Staff College at Dover College, Dover, Delaware in 1988; then completed further studies in Moral Leadership at the Middle East Region Chaplain’s Staff College at Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Maryland in 2000. That same year he received the Chaplain of the Year Award.
After serving as chaplain for the District of Columbia Jail, the author became chaplain for the District of Columbia Department of Corrections under the federal government from 1997 until 2004. He joined the Chaplain Department at the District of Columbia General Hospital in 1985 and served diligently until his retirement in 2004. He also served as police Clergy with the Philadelphia Police Department and for 9 years volunteered as a Big Brother in the District of Columbia.view less