He also served as guest chaplain for the United States Congress House of Representatives in 2009. Pastor Bennett has ministered and served in pulpits and universities throughout the state of Connecticut as well as around the country including Yale and Harvard Divinity Schools and Fairfield University. He serves as Co-Chair of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT), a Fairfield and New Haven county multi-issue broad based organization that is an affiliate of the national body of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) Past President of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Bridgeport and Vicinity (IMA), a collective of fifty-five pastors and churches past board member of the United Way of Eastern Fairfield County, Past Chair of Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition (BCAC), a collective of seventy-five community and social service providing agencies. This was the first of its kind in the state of Connecticut. In 2006, he led Mount Aery to partner with Optimus Healthcare to form the Hollow Community primary healthcare center. Whereas Pastor Bennett’s holistic vision of health and healing extends beyond the borders of Mount Aery, he is very active in the greater Bridgeport community.

Pastor also serves as Chair of the Mount Aery Development Corporation. These included: the Leadership Institute, a ministry designed to develop the church’s lay leadership People Learning Under God (P.L.U.G.), a ministry designed for teens to explore both their spiritual and ancestral history Restoring Everlasting Faith Under God’s Embrace (R.E.F.U.G.E.), a ministry for those recovering from dependencies and co-dependencies. Believing in the practical power of prayer, the church’s subsequent theme became, ‘A Praying People, With a Powerful Witness, of the Perfect God.’ As Mount Aery had a historical commitment to extend itself to the Bridgeport community, Pastor Bennett created new ministries that would continue the church’s legacy of outreach and evangelism. Paul Community Baptist Church, he was called to serve Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut as its fifth pastor. He also holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from The United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio (2001).įollowing his tenure at St. There he served as the Associate Pastor from 1991-1993, then Assistant Pastor from 1993-1994. While in seminary he joined the staff of the Saint Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York under the pastoral leadership of the Reverend Dr. Upon graduating from Morehouse College (’88), he entered The Union Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity degree (’91).

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