Guest Speaker - Dr. Efraín Agosto

Sunday, July 18, 11am

Our Guest preacher, Dr. Efraín Agosto is Professor of New Testament Studies at New York Theological Seminary and the Seminary’s former Academic Dean. A Puerto Rican, Dr. Agosto was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn.  As a lay minister, he has served in assistant and interim pastorates in Pentecostal, Baptist and Congregational churches in New York, Boston, and Hartford. From April to December 2013, he was part-time interim pastor at the historic Second Spanish Baptist Church in East Harlem. He published a book of sermons from that experience, Preaching in the Interim (2018).  He also published a book entitled Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul (2005). Currently, Efrain is a lay member of Center Church Hartford (UCC), whose previous pastor was Rev. Damaris Whittaker. Efrain and his wife Olga live in West Hartford, Connecticut and they have two adult children, Joel and Jasmin.