Pastor Henry J. Payden, Jr. has been the Senior Pastor-Teacher of First Baptist Church of Malvern, Ohio (www.fbcmalvernoh.com) since July 21st, 1996. Preaching each Sunday, and teaching a Wednesday virtually now after the pandemic, traveling one hour south of his home in Akron, he is an expositor of scripture teaching faithfully the whole counsel of God's Word. He has taught several workshops, preached itinerantly, and is currently writing his first book. He has also sung with the Akron Symphony Chorus, and their Gospel Meets Symphony community event.
Pastor Payden is the Executive Director Church & Culture Conference Ministries, LLC, which is his passion for the Lord's command of church unity, and particularly as it pertains to elements that seek to divide the church, such as politics, societal sins and dysfunctions, racism & prejudice, biblical ignorance, to name a few. This is an effort to speak to all ethnicities regarding God's truth and to create a functionally effective conference and workshop outreach to engage, admonish, and incorporate the churches in Northeast Ohio and beyond to uphold the unity of the body without compromise.
He is married to Angela and they have four children and six grandchildren.
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Henry James Payden, Jr., is currently the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Malvern, Ohio (www.fbcmalvernoh.com). He has been pastoring only there since July 21st, 1996. For 21 years he conducted a workplace Bible Study at the AJC Federal Building in Cleveland, working at the Defense Finance & Accounting Service, before retiring January 3rd, 2014. He attended Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, Maranatha Institute of the Bible, Cleveland, OH, and the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, IL. He has taught at the former Black Renaissance Bible School, in Cleveland, and has taught workshops for several years at the former Ohio Christian Education Association. He is a baritone soloist, and performs with the Akron Symphony Chorus and the Gospel Meets Symphony Choir.
His vision is to encourage and admonish the church to unity and ethnic diversity in light of the gospel (Gal. 2:2, 11-14; Eph. 4:3) by conferencing with national authors and speakers in the church, holding firm to the faithful authority and activity of the scriptures (2Timothy 2:15; Titus 1:9; James 1:22-23; 1John 2:5). The goal in the near future is to have regular debates of differing authors and speakers to encourage unity and love in spite of disagreements. Communication and constructive confrontation is vital to unity within the church. He also hopes soon to help other churches to conduct spiritual conferences, looking to use this as a vehicle to stir faithful, systematic doctrine within the church.
He is currently writing his first book entitled "The Elements of Church Endurance - Maintaining Jesus' Vision for His Church", a workshop he conducted in the past.
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