Croft

The Reverend Dr. Wayne E. Croft, Sr., serves as Pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in West Chester, PA and as The Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr. Associate Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics in African American Studies at United Lutheran Seminary. He is the author of the book Unexpected Calls to Unexpected Places, Pretty Poison: Seven Deadly Sins, The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching During Slavery and Post-Civil War: There’s A Bright Side Somewhere, and The History of the Black Baptist Church: I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired. 

Dr. Croft is a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and Past President of the NAACP West Chester Branch. Dr. Croft earned an Associate degree from Pinebrook Jr. College and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Trinity College earning a Bachelor of Arts. He received the Master of Divinity degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated with distinction from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey earning a Doctor of Ministry degree. 

Dr. Croft also earned a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degree from Drew. He is the first person to earn both a Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Philosophy from Drew University and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Villanova University. Dr. Croft is married to Dr. Lisa L. Croft, a family physician and they have three children, Darlene, Wayne Jr., Candace Nicole, and a granddaughter, Patterson.