Reverend Reginald Wayne Sharpe Jr., (February 18, 1991) first born child of Reginald Sr. and Fay Phillips-Sharpe, serves as Senior Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. He earned a BA in Religion from Morehouse College (2013), a MA in Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University Divinity School (2016), and an MS in Theology from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary. He is one of the proud charter members of the Academy of Preachers and was one of the youngest inducted into The Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in 2018. He taught as an adjunct professor in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Morehouse College. Among his many distinctions, he is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Since December 31, 2019, he has served as the Senior Pastor of the historic Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. He is honored to follow in the pastoral lineage of the late Reverend Clay Evans and Pastor Charles Jenkins. Fellowship Chicago has experienced astonishing growth in all aspects of ministry, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. After suspending in-person worship in March 2020, Fellowship launched #TheVirtualShip, a virtual extension of the church's ministry, which engages an average weekly audience of 25,000 people. He unrelentingly believed that “Although the building was closed, the church was still open.” He married Brianna Sullivan Sharpe. Together they serve in ministry. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha https://www.instagram.com/p/CozgBNWrM1y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
