Our Pastor
He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.
Colossians 1:28-29
Rev. Robert I. Gordon
Pastor
In 2012, the Reverend Robert I. Gordon was appointed pastor of St. Stephen African Methodist Episcopal Church on John’s Island by Bishop Preston Warren Williams II.
Rev. Gordon is a 1969 graduate of Haut Gap High School on Johns Island; a 1983 graduate of Benedict College with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Economics and a Master of Divinity from Erskine Theological Seminary in 2015.
His initial sermon was preached February 1993 at Greater St. John AME Church on Johns Island, titled “The End is Not Yet”. He was granted a License to Preach by Presiding Elder Alonzo Middleton. Rev. Gordon was ordained an Itinerant Deacon in 1995 and ordained an Itinerant Elder in 1998 by Bishop John Hurst Adams. Prior to his appointment to St. Stephen, he served as pastor of St. Peters AME Church in Gifford, SC – 1997-2002; Mt. Olive AME Church in Green Pond, SC – 2002-2005 both in Beaufort District; and St. Paul AME Church in Hollywood, SC. -2005-2012.
As a member of the South Carolina Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Gordon serves on the Church School, the Temperance and the Ministerial Efficiency Committees.
Rev. Gordon served on active duty in the Army Reserves from 1970 – 1993. He is currently retired after thirty-seven (37) years of federal service with the Department of Defense and the Post Office.
He is married to Lucretia Robinson Gordon and they have one son, LaRon and seven grandchildren.