A beloved man of God has left the earth. The Bishop Reginald T. Jackson has died.
Below is a statement from the Rev. Dr. Charles Franklin Boyer:
No one has impacted my ministry as profoundly as Bishop Reginald T. Jackson. As a young Black man growing up in New Jersey repeatedly pulled over by state troopers on Route 78, I can still remember looking up at the television and seeing him stand in the gap—fighting for young men like me. When I was rebelling against Christianity, convinced it had become irrelevant to my generation, I was compelled to pause when I saw him fighting for us. That image—and the witness behind it—reshaped how I viewed Christianity, the Black Church, and African Methodism…