PERSONAL
Rev. Dr. Joshua Antoine Harris, Sr. is a proud product of inner city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Being the son of a pastor and skilled social worker, he developed an early awareness and sensitivity for the human condition. Dr. Harris accepted his calling into the preaching ministry at the age of eighteen. He has served as an Associate Minister of the Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; Youth Pastor for the Zion Hill Baptist Church of Blue Ash, Ohio; the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Mathews, Virginia; and the Senior Pastor of the St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church of Cleveland, OH. In the Fall of 2020 he became the senior pastor at 1st Gethsemane Baptist Church