PERSON: Jamal Bryant


Employer

New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
Position

Senior Pastor
Biography

Jamal Harrison Bryant (born May 21, 1971) is an American minister, author and former political candidate. He is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

In April 2000, Pastor Jamal Bryant founded the Empowerment Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and served for 18 years. In December 2018, he became pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia.

Bryant ostensibly ran for U.S. Congress in 2015, aiming to represent Baltimore, Maryland, as a Democrat. He suspended his campaign less than two weeks after announcing his run.

Officials of the A.M.E. denomination intended, as of February 2008, to enter into discussions regarding Bryant’s leadership, following mutual filings for divorce by Bryant, his spouse, Hampton alumna and future Real Housewives of Potomac star Gizelle Bryant. However, they said that Bryant did not face a disciplinary trial because no one came forward with a complaint against him. Church officials said that Bryant “was never charged through the church system with anything”. In 2019, the briefly dated. Many speculated this was just to give Gizelle a storyline as Jamal remained in Georgia and was seen with other ladies, including sing Tweet (singer).

In 2022, in Rashan Ali’s “Cool Soror” podcast, he said he wanted to develop a “new gospel for adults” who are used to having sex and wanted to grow marijuana on the land of the church to attract young people to church. Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., pastor of the Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, criticized that project, saying that “marijuana is a dangerous drug that leads to depression and suicide, and is a gateway drug, this man is wicked and leading his congregation to be worldly and not righteous.”

He makes $46,000 a month. Source: Child Support case (16-CV-1613) Georgia, USA.

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