"There
was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came
for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through
him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear
witness of that Light."
John 1:6-8
Pastor John Louis Wright is a native Baltimorean. He has
received the Special Theology Certificate award from the Maryland
Baptist Center School of Religion. He received his Bachelor
of Divinity Degree from the National Theological Seminary
and College; he received his Master Degree of Divinity of
Eastern Theological Seminar; he received his Doctorate of
Divinity Degree from the National Theological Seminary and
College and he received his second Doctorate of Divinity Degree
from Virginia Theolo gical
Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Virginia. He has also received
an Honorary Doctorate, Letter of Humanities from the United
Baptist Missionary College and Seminary and a Special Theology
Certificate from the Maryland Baptist Center School of Religion.
Dr. Wright is also a 1997 graduate of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation Citizen’s Academy, Baltimore, Maryland,
U. S. Department of Justice. He has received several certificates
from the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine for the
completion of Mini-Med School Classes for 2006 and 2007. In
July 2007, Dr. Wright received a Certificate for his active
(panel) participation in the Oxford University Round Table
at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, England.
Dr. Wright has served as Pastor of First Baptist Church of
Guilford since 1972 during which time its discipleship and
ministries have grown tremendously, to the glory of God. As
community leader and civil rights activist, Dr. Wright has
served in various capacities and in various organizations
to include the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), of which he is a life member, the
Howard County General Hospital Trustee Board, Maryland State
Governor’s Commission on Handgun Violence, Marylanders
Against Handgun Abuse, Maryland Children’s Initiative,
and the Howard County Center for African-American Culture.
Pastor Wright has also served as President of the Baptist
Ministers’ Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity, President
of the United Baptist Missionary Convention and Auxiliaries
of Maryland, and as Director of the Baptist Aged Home of Maryland.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Regents of
the United Baptist Missionary College and Seminary.
Recently, Dr. Wright was enstooled as a Chief in the village
of Asiaskwa outside of Accra, Ghana, being crowned Chief Nanna
Appiah Atu III. He has also been robed an African Chief of
the Village, Bong County, Liberia; Refugees, Danane. Having
the mind of a missionary, he has traveled extensively all
over the world to such countries as Ghana, Togo, Benin, South
Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Hawaii, Finland, Switzerland, Canada,
Israel, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, China, and South Korea. While
in Israel, he baptized believers in the Jordan River.
Over the years, Dr. Wright has mentored and “fathered”
many ministers of the gospel who have gone on to pastor churches
in the states of Ma ryland,
Virginia and Kentucky as well as Washington D.C.
A man who strongly believes in family, Pastor Wright is the
oldest of nine children born to the late George and Joanna
Wright. He is married to Ida Mitchell Wright. They have one
daughter, Dr. Sheila Wright.
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