

State of the Black Church
October 7 – 9
Sunday Night Worship Service @6pm
Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes, III
Glad Tidings Church of God in Christ
970 Glad Tidings Way. Hayward, CA 94544


Bishop J.W. Macklin
Pastor of Glad Tidings COGIC, Hayward, CA

Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll
Founder of Green The Church

Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III
Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX

Rue Mapp
CEO & Founder of Outdoor Afro
Featured Speakers

Danny Kennedy
Managing Director California Clean Energy Fund

Rev. Dr. James Brenneman
President of American Baptist Seminary

Reginald Chatman
Senior Director of Customer Experience at Bloom Energy

Deacon G. L. Hodge
Community Conduit

Rev. Michael McBride
Pastor of The Way Christian Center, Berkeley, CA

Rev. Dr. Charley Hames
Senior Pastor, Beebe Memorial Cathedral, Oakland, CA

Rev. Bruce Carroll Sr.
Senior Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church, Shreveport, LA

Rev. Emily L. Carroll
Vice President of Carroll Ministries Inc

Rev. Dr. Dwight Webster
Beth Eden Baptist Church, Oakland, CA

Kimberly Lewis
Senior Vice President, Community Advancement, Conferences & Events of U.S. Green Building Council

Pastor Shane B. Scott
Senior Pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA

Pastor Welton Pleasant, II
President of the California State Baptist Convention

Dr. Sandra Curtis
Director of Innovative Projects, Plastic Pollution Coalition

Shaniece Alexander
Executive Director, Oakland Food Policy Council

Rev. Michael Smith
McGee Avenue Baptist Church, Berkeley, CA

David Braun
Project Director, Rootskeeper

Rev. Dr. Barbara Galloway-Lee
Community Care Liaison in collaboration with Alameda County Care Alliance in Oakland, CA

Servant B.K. Woodson, Sr.
Pastor & Founder of The Bay Area Christian Connection Oakland, CA

Michael Harris
Co-Chair of the California Black Agriculture Working Group

Rev. Michael Wallace
Senior Pastor Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Oakland, CA

Rev. Susan Hendershot
President, Interfaith Power & Light (IPL)

Alvaro S. Sanchez
Director, Environmental Equity for The Greenlining Institute

Aminah ‘Chef Mimi’ Robinson-Briscoe
Creator, ‘Bringing it to the Table” Culinary Docu-Reality Competition

Aaron Clay
CEO of Sunwwarm

Lindi von Mutius
Chief of Staff, Sierra Club

Minna Toloui
Program Manager, Ecology Center

Kahlil Kettering
Urban Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy

Pastor Anthony L. Trufant
Senior Pastor, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY

Rev. Dr. Tyson-Lord Gray
President & Founder of Green Community Vision Inc.

Kevin D. Williams, JD, MPH
Associate Director of Berkeley Youth Alternatives

David Roach
Co-founder, The Familyhood Connection Inc.

Lena Easton-Calabria
Urban Conservation Associate, The Nature Conservancy

Rev. Kenneth Chambers
Pastor of West Side Missionary Baptist Church

Susan Stephenson
Executive Director, Interfaith Power & Light

Cheryl Vaughn
Executive Director, Solar Richmond

Rev. Rodrick Burton
New Northside Missionary Baptist Church St. Louis, MO

Mark Hall
Founder of Revalue.io

Elsadig Elsheikh
Director, Global Justice Program University of California-Berkeley

Taison Kwamilele
Head of Public Relations and Community Engagement California Waste Solutions

Pastor Leroy Gill
Founder & Senior Pastor of Jubilee Community Church, St. Louis, MO

Rebecca Weaver
Cities Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy

Nuvia Alvarez
Co-founder of Youth Going Green

Tiffany Grant King
Program Mentor, Youth Going Green

Rev. Earl W. Koteen
Sunflower Alliance

Pastor Brian Hunter
Senior Pastor, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, West Oakland, CA

Andreas Karelas
Founder and Executive Director of RE-volv

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