REVEREND DR. JOHNNIE W. SKINNER SR. PASTOR'S  MESSAGE

June Message from our Pastor…

Andrea and I want to thank you for attending our 34th Pastor’s Anniversary on June 29, 2025. We also thank all of you who attended the reception following Sunday services; it was a great time for food, fun, and fellowship. Thank you for staying and allowing us to greet you personally. We truly appreciated the food, good fellowship, spoken words of Kindness, well wishes, and the many gifts of love, as well as Reverend Leroy Franklin for preaching such an inspiring and uplifting message. Thank you for your love and support through the years.

On the Fourth of July, which we call Independence Day or Freedom Day, the United States officially declared its independence from the rule of Great Britain. We became an independent and united country. As you celebrate, remember the reason for our celebration and pray that we will always be a free and united country. Please don’t take our freedom and country for granted. continue to faithfully pray for our country, and know that we can only stay a strong, truly blessed democracy when we pray and turn away from our sins. 
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2 Chronicles 7:14 says that God will heal our land when we pray and turn from our wicked ways. We, America, need to turn to God and become a righteous nation and people. Let’s begin with the church.

Johnnie William Skinner, Sr., Th.D., Pastor

Rev. Dr. Johnnie W. Skinner Sr. & wife Andrea Skinner

Reverend Dr. Johnnie W. Skinner was born in Harlem, New York to the late Reverend Alester J. Skinner and the late Georgia Skinner. He was raised in Harlem, New York, and educated in New York City.  Dr. Skinner graduated from Nyack College (NY) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy. He received his Master of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary (NYC), and earned his Doctor of Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, as a Samuel DeWitt Proctor Fellow. 

During his ministerial career, Dr. Skinner served for seven years at Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York, under the senior pastorate of the late Dr. Gardner C. Taylor. Dr. Skinner served seven years as pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio.  On February 15, 1991, Reverend Dr. Skinner accepted the call to lead Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Knoxville and has been with us ever since. 

John 15:13 KJV
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."