Jamal Harrison Bryant

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Jamal Harrison Bryant (born May 21, 1971) is an American minister, author and former political candidate. He is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia.

Jamal Harrison Bryant was born on May 21, 1971, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Richard and Cecelia Bryant (née Williams). He has a younger sister. He was raised in the Westside neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, where, as a child, he attended his father’s church Bethel A.M.E. Church. He preached his first sermon when he was a child at Bethel titled “No Pain, No Gain.”
Bryant attended Morehouse College where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science and international studies. He obtained a master’s of divinity degree from Duke University. He received a doctorate of ministry degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation. However, the Graduate Theological Foundation is not accredited by the Association of American Theological Schools (ATS). Bryant is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

In April 2000, Pastor Jamal Bryant founded the Empowerment Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and served for…