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Fred came to serve greater Williamsburg and WCC as lead pastor in October of 2010 and is grateful to be a part of the family. He is a husband, father, certified trauma professional, S.T.A.R. (strategies for trauma awareness & resilience) practitioner, community organizer, TEDx alum, founder of 3e Restoration, Inc. and co-owner of Philoxenia Culture LLC. He received his B.S. in Ministry/Bible at Amridge University and his Master’s of Religious Education in Missional Leadership from Rochester University. Currently he is a candidate for a Doctorate of Ministry in Contextual Theology in at Northern Seminary in Chicago. Fred also serves as an adjunct lecturer for William & Mary and has served as an adjunct professor for Rochester University and Regent University where he taught courses in philosophy, ethics, leadership, pastoral care, intro to Christianity, and ethnography. Fred has authored on book (Racialized Cultural Systems, Social Displacement and Christian Hospitality) and several curriculum offerings, including The FloorPlan: Living Toward Restoration & Resilience. Fred enjoys hanging out with his family anytime, anywhere. He is deeply grateful for how God graciously works through the Church in all her various forms, despite our brokenness. He is passionate about seeing the last, least, and lonely of every neighborhood, city and nation experience God’s in-breaking kingdom, and come to know Jesus as King. Oh, and his favorite season is Advent and Christmas. Fred serves on the advisory boards of Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Bacon Street Youth & Family Services, and FreeKind. He is also a founding member of the board of directors for Virginia Racial Healing Institute, a member of Greater Williamsburg Trauma-Informed Community Network's Racial Trauma Committee and Training Committee.

Hospitality & Abundance, Part 6

In the Ancient Near East the practice of hospitality moved beyond relational embrace to holistic care. It was a moral commitment that involved compassionate care and generosity for the “other,” especially someone far from home. Food, shelter, and physical well-being … Continue reading

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Hospitality & God’s Abundance, Part 5

Thinking of Jesus’ closest followers they would have been hard to describe as a community. The social descriptions available to first-century Palestine didn’t have a clear category for them. They were not only the destitute or only the rich, among … Continue reading

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Hospitality & God’s Abundance, Part 4

Jesus spoke liberation to the “ptochos,” neighbors pressed down by poverty systems. (Lk. 6:20-23; 12:22-34). Jesus often brought attention to them when talking with others (Mk. 10:21; 12:41-44; Lk. 14:13-14; 16:19-31). His relentless commitment to extending God’s hospitality to them … Continue reading

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Hospitality & God’s Abundance, Pt. 3

What else can be observed when considering the images Jesus associates with God’s hospitality and abundance is that the Church cannot become a living parable or a “sign, instrument, and foretaste” of Christ’s reign if we are seduced to other … Continue reading

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Hospitality & God’s Abundance, Pt. 2

The numerous images of God’s kingdom associated with God’s abundance and hospitality that Jesus used leads me to believe that Jesus and his followers were to be a kind of living parable of how people live together from God’s abundance. … Continue reading

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