The Highway to Zion Teaching DVD By Joseph Garlington
Bishop Joseph L. Garlington, Sr., PhD
is the Senior Pastor of Covenant Church of Pittsburgh, a multiracial
and cross-cultural community of more than two thousand members, which he
founded with his wife, Barbara in 1971.
Guided by Bishop Garlington’s vision, Covenant Church has been a model
of reconciliation and racial healing for Reconciliation! Ministries
International, an International Network of Churches and Ministries, Inc,
for which he is the Presiding Bishop. Reconciliation! Ministries spans
the globe in representation with nearly a thousand congregations
worldwide.
He is the president of Building United of Southwestern Pennsylvania, an
ecumenical coalition of bishops in the Southwestern and Western
Pennsylvania corridor. Through the synergy of this partnership with
local and national financial institutions and foundations, they are
beginning to see genuine fruit from President Bush’s faith-based
initiatives in providing home ownership for low and middle income
families.
As the visionary for Covenant Church, he launched an outreach to recover
an abandoned school in Wilkinsburg, PA, that is now known as Hosanna
House Community Center, which has become a world class model for
creative partnerships with government, business, foundations and the
church. This and other numerous outreaches to the local and
international community have positioned Covenant Church as a recognized
leader in the faith-based community.
Bishop Garlington is an accomplished musician and recording artist,
author and scholar, whose work touches thousands through radio and TV,
through his weekly television broadcast, Something Fresh, through
national and international conferences, through albums, books and
articles. He is internationally recognized in the religious community
for his work and ministry in many churches in South Africa since 1979.
His preaching and teaching ministry, known for it's humor and deep
insight, has made him a popular speaker at many national conferences
such as Promise Keepers, the international men’s movement, where he
regularly addressed tens of thousands of men. Bishop Garlington
regularly consults for pastors, churches and organizations that are
eager to develop similar models of racial reconciliation and healing.
He is married to Pastor Barbara Williams Garlington, and together they
share responsibility for seven children, thirteen grandchildren and one
great granddaughter.