The Reverend Dr. Floyd James, Sr. is the senior pastor of the Greater Rock Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. James was licensed and ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1973 and succeeded his father in the pastoral ministry in 1984.

Because of Dr. James’ leadership, Greater Rock is now distinguished by its stewardship program, outreach ministry, fervent worship, and dynamic preaching and teaching for the 40 years of his pastorate. The church exemplifies its theme, “A Church Designed with the Community in Mind.”

Dr. James has served on district and regional boards throughout his ministry and has held numerous leadership roles, including Moderator of the Salem Baptist District Association, Financial Secretary of the Baptist General State Convention of Illinois, and Chairman of the Moderator’s Department of the Baptist General State Convention of Illinois.

He has also served nationally as Assistant Director of the Minister’s Division of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education and as General Secretary of the Moderator’s Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., along with service in many other religious, civic, and social organizations.

Dr. James currently serves as President of the Biblical Exposition Conference (BEC), President & CEO of Greater Rock Development Corp., and instructor for both the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education and the New Baptist Ministers Fellowship of Chicago and Vicinity.

An anointed preacher and teacher, Dr. James is also an activist for social justice and an affectionate shepherd whose ministry reaches beyond the walls of the church into local, regional, and worldwide communities. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad preaching and teaching the unadulterated Word of God.

Dr. James is an honors graduate of Blackburn University. He earned a Master of Theology and a Master of Divinity from Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary and completed his Doctor of Ministry degree from Faith University in 2022. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Institute in Houston, Texas.

Dr. James is married to Joy James, and together they have a blended family of six children and five grandchildren.