Pastor with Oklahoma ties is appointed to national post
A minister with ties to Oklahoma has been appointed to a leadership position with a national black Baptist denomination. The Rev. LeRoy Hill Jr. recently was appointed to serve as Board of Evangelism chairman for the National Baptist Convention USA.
Hill, who lives in Suffolk, Virginia, is longtime senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, but he was raised in Compton, California, and the Oklahoma City metro area. Hill graduated from Douglass High School and Langston University, playing football at both schools. He has a master's of divin
ity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas and a doctorate in ministry with an emphasis on evangelizing and discipling African American males from Virginia University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The preacher also has another doctorate in spiritual leadership and renewal with a concentration in community transformation from Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
He and his wife, Chanda Braxton Hill, have four children. In addition to his role as pastor, the minister teaches homiletics and the Old Testament, and he serves on the board of directors at the Angelos Bible College, in Portsmouth, Virginia.
He was chair and co-chair of the African American Men's Health Leadership Council and the African American Men's Health Forum serving as many as 600 men in the Hampton Roads community. He recently served on the board for PVH (Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless) and was the vice president.
Hill said he was excited about his new leadership appointment to the National Baptist Convention USA's evangelism board.