GOODMAN The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Goodman Jr., pastor and teacher at The Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, will be the Black history program speaker at New Ford Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 14.

A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Goodman is a graduate, with honors, of Wake Forest University. In 2005, he graduated from the Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta with a concentration in Homiletics and Black Church Studies. Last year, at the age of 29, he earned his Doctor of Divinity Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., with a concentration in Preaching in the 21st century.

Goodman began his preaching ministry at the age of 21. Prior to arriving at Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in December 2006, he served as pastor of what had become the fastest growing church in eastern Alabama. Under his leadership at Tabernacle, the church has completed the groundbreaking and construction of its Church Family Life Center facility that houses the administrative and ministerial arm of the church. This is the beginning of the vision God has given him to develop the Tabernacle Baptist Church Campus.

The congregation now exceeds 3,000 members and is growing each Sunday. Goodman is also featured locally on the ”Kingdom Living” television broadcast and he broadcasts live every Sunday and Thursday on Streamingfaith.com.

Goodman was inducted into the prestigious Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers of Morehouse College in April 2008. He was recognized by the African American Pulpit as one of the “20-to-Watch” Young Preachers under the age of 40 when he was 28, making him one of the youngest ever to achieve both of these distinctions. His sermon “The Curse of Being Average” is featured in African American Pulpit. Goodman was voted one of “America’s Most Loved Pastors” in the September 2006 edition of Gospel Today magazine. He is also a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

“With a practical, yet insightful and charismatic preaching style, Rev. Goodman is dedicated to spreading the good news of the Gospel to everyone he meets,” according to Rev. Ed Anderson of New Ford Baptist. “The Wilkes and surrounding communities are encouraged to come and worship at New Ford’s Black History program.”