Meet Our Pastor
Pastor Vincent Edward Clark
Born on August 28, 1962, Vincent Clark is a native of Kankakee, Illinois, and is the second of seven children born to Frank and Bonnie Clark, of Kankakee.
Recognizing that he was a sinner and being convicted by the Holy Spirit, Clark professed faith in and thus received salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. Knowing, through divine intervention of the Holy Spirit, The Lord had a higher calling on his life, he answered his "Call to Preach the Word of God," being duly Licensed to Preach in November, 1982, and ordained in August, 1992, by the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Kankakee, Illinois.
Pastor Clark’s education included tenures at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois; Kankakee Community College (Kankakee), and Governors State University, University Park, Illinois, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Clark has been certified as a Family Development Specialist by The National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and The University of Iowa School of Social Work, Iowa City, Iowa. In addition to being a Certified Family and Community Development Specialist, Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies, Springfield, Illinois, Clark is a Certified Facilitator for "Quenching The Father Thurst" curriculum by the The National Center for Fathering, Kansas City, Missouri.
Pastor Clark is married to the former Alisha Z. Hall of Kankakee (native of Tennessee) whom he married on February 14, 1987. Four children were born to the union of Vincent and Alisha: Vincent Edward, II; Jacqueline Olevia; Justin Edward; and Jaeden Edward. Clark also has one other daughter, Carrie of Chicago.
Clark has served as the Senior Pastor of the Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, Bradley since April 1998. Pastor Clark currently serves as the Executive Director of Kankakee County Community Services, Incorporated (a non-profit community action agency), where he has been employed since August 1992.
Preaching engagements of Clark includes the States of Tennessee; Missouri; Kentucky, Iowa, and Indiana. He has Preached on the state level for Illinois Baptist General and facilitated regional leadership workshops for Kankakee Community College and Northeastern Illinois Area Agency on Aging.
Clark has served in a number of religious, social and political organizations and his affiliations, memberships and positions are listed as follows:
Current Positions/Affiliations/Memberships:
v2nd. Vice-Moderator, Kankakee County Baptist District Association
vPresident, Will County Community Action Building Corporation
vCo-Chairman, Project Turn Around of Kankakee County –National Church Adopt A School Initiative
vTreasurer, Kankakee County Re-entry Program
vTreasurer, Epsilon Eta Sigma Alumni Chapter, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
vTreasurer, John R. Tate Advocacy Center, (formally Victim’s Assistance Center of Kankakee County), Kankakee, Illinois
vAdvisory Board Member, Student African-American Brotherhood (S.A.A.B) – Brother 2 Brother, Kankakee Community College, Kankakee, Illinois
v Advisory Committee Member, Marriage Inc., Kankakee County, Illinois
v Member, NAACP, Kankakee County Branch, Kankakee, Illinois
Former Positions/Affiliations/Memberships:
vPresident, Kankakee County Baptist District Association’s James M. Smith Institute of Christian Education
vChaplain, Bourbonnais Bears Junior Football League: Varsity Black, Bourbonnais, Illinois
vPresident, NAACP, Kankakee County Branch , Illinois
vPresident, Dr. M. L. King Jr. Memorial Foundation, Kankakee, Illinois
vPercussionist, Kankakee Municipal Band
vVolunteer Coach, Eastside Junior Football League, Kankakee, Illinois
v Member, Blue Ribbon Improvement Committee, Kankakee County Housing Authority
vPresident & Vice President, Illinois Community Action Foundation
vMember, Board of Directors, Illinois Community Action Development Corporation
vMember, Board of Directors, Provena Fortin Villa Adult Day Care, Kankakee
vMember, Kankakee County Housing Authority Family Self-Sufficiency Program Committee
vBoard Member, Gateway (Zion Gate MB Church) Housing Development Corporation, Kankakee, Illinois
vMember, Board of Directors, Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies
vChairman, Training & Professional Development Committee, Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies
Clark is also an awarded percussionist in the gospel, jazz and classical music arena with receipt of several awards and recognitions on a local government and college/university level.
