01/22/2021
2016 Commissioned CBF Church Starter, Rev. Wayne M. Weathers
Challenges are certainly not new to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church starter Wayne Weathers, who serves as pastor of Vision of Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
After all, Weathers spent 10 years pastoring in one of Philadelphia’s most distressed subsidized housing networks and later planted Vision of Hope in the nearby Strawberry Mansion neighborhood (don’t let the name fool you). But when Vision of Hope moved into a former Church of Christ Scientist building seven miles north in Jenkintown—think Tudor-style manors and towering Alaskan cedars—the real challenge began.
“It was a challenging shift for me because of my mindset; I’ve always been an ‘urban pastor’ since I started pastoring in Durham, North Carolina,” said Weathers, who was the first African-American church starter to be commissioned by CBF. “Suddenly, the commute was long and the culture was different.”
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