Meet Our Pastor

Pastor Leonard Franklin, Jr

A willing servant of God spreading God’s Good News

Biography

“I can do all things through CHRIST which strengthen me! – Philippians 4:13

Pastor Leonard Franklin, Jr. is a native Chicagoan who relocated to Georgia in September 1995. He was licensed to preach the Gospel at Friendship Baptist Church in Chicago under the leadership of the late Pastor Dr. Shelvin Jerome Hall on April 9, 1995. Upon moving to Stone Mountain, Pastor Franklin joined Fairfield Baptist Church of Redan located in Lithonia, Georgia under the pastorate of Pastor Micheal Benton, who retired in 2017 after forty years of service. He was ordained on August 29, 1998.

Pastor Franklin was very active on the Ministerial Staff with the Fairfield Baptist Church and served as Trinitarian (Chairperson) for several years. He facilitated the New Members Class, worked with the Marriage Ministry, Counselor for the Gospel Choir and taught various courses for the Fairfield Baptist Church Institute of Biblical Studies as well as facilitated financial workshops.

Pastor Franklin completed his undergraduate studies at Chicago State University on the south side of Chicago in 1985, with a degree in Accounting and a minor in Psychology. He jokingly shares that he was on a ten-year program but finished early, after nine years. Sixteen years later, Pastor Franklin received a Master’s degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Keller Graduate School of Management. He completed coursework at Luther Rice Seminary.

Pastor Franklin is the Chief Financial Officer of CandM Accounting & Financial Services. CandM Accounting provides full cycle accounting services for churches and small businesses. They also provide business and personal income tax preparation services. He served as an Adjunct Professor at DeVry University from 2002 through 2017 teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Accounting and Finance. Pastor Franklin was called to shepherd the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Edgefield, South Carolina on Saturday, August 4, 2018. He is also blessed to have a loving family who is very supportive of his work in ministry. He has been married to Carol Franklin for 30 years and they are proud parents of one daughter, Carlen.

His primary goal is to be a willing servant of GOD and spread the GOD’s Good News.