About Our Revivalist
 The Reverend Dr. James C. Perkins was ordained to Gospel Ministry in 1974. He has served as pastor of Greater Christ Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan for twenty-nine years. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio (1990, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Fellow). An internationally recognized minister, Dr. Perkins fulfills speaking engagements at churches, seminaries, and conferences across the United States and abroad.
He is the author of Building Up Zion's Walls: Ministry for Empowering the African American Family and Playbook for Christian Manhood: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys, published by Judson Press (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania). His other writings, as well as profiles of his ministry and details of his community activism, have been included in both secular and Christian publications such as Black Enterprise, USA Today, Ebony, American Baptist, The African-American Pulpit, several edited works published by Judson Press, and the best-selling Success Runs in Our Race, by George Fraser.
Dr. Perkins has been very busy in his community-wide ministerial outreach. He was involved in the construction of Providence Place—a $10 million development, providing fifty single family homes for low and middle income families. Responding to the crisis he witnessed in the available educational options for young, urban African American males, Dr. Perkins instituted the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy in 1993. This Christian school for boys offers kindergarten through sixth grades.
In addition, Dr. Perkins has served on numerous boards. He is currently serving as 2nd Vice President of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. He is a past President of the Michigan Progressive Baptist Convention and member of the Detroit Baptist Pastors Council, Detroit Chapter NAACP, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Dr. Perkins was also a recipient of the Ghandi, King, Ikeda Award, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; the Minister of the Year Award, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; the Benjamin E. Mays Award, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the Charles Andrew Hill Achievement Award; Michigan Progressive Baptist Convention; Michigan Chronicle's Pastor's Salute Award; Who's Who in Black Detroit (Inaugural Edition), and the Outstanding Church Leadership Award, American Baptist Churches of Michigan.
Dr. Perkins is married to Linda Adkins Perkins and is the father of two daughters and the grandfather of one grandson.
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