Title: Senior Pastor

Company: Parkchester Baptist Church

Location: West Babylon, N.Y.

Senior Pastor, Rev. Dr. Laura B. Sinclair continues to garner nearly 40 years as an ordained minister. A former Associate Executive Minister for the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan N.Y., the reverend was installed as Senior Pastor at Parkchester on April 17, 2005, and has since been elected to the American Baptist Home Mission Society of ABC-USA. Rev. Dr. Sinclair is also the vice president of the Antioch Bible Institute., as well as affiliate professor at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

Previously, Rev. Dr. Sinclair was the assistant pastor of Antioch Baptist Church of Corona for more than 20 years and a substitute teacher in the North Babylon School District. She has since become a certified teacher of Special Education K-12 and Elementary education and was hired as Human Relations Director for the North Babylon School District. Rev. Dr. Laura B. Sinclair is a graduate of Hartford Seminary, Union Theological Seminary and Adelphi University, were she received her Doctor of Ministry, Master of Divinity and Bachelor of Arts Degree respectively. She is also a certified director of training for Prepare/Enrich, one of the best marital counseling programs offered.

Rev. Dr. Sinclair is the proud wife of Minister Troy Sinclair (deceased), the mother of five children: Derek, Steve, Tia, Selina, and Nichelle and the grandmother of nine and great-grandmother of two.