Our Pastor

Reverend Victor E. Covington

Rev. Victor E. Covington is a native of Atlantic City, NJ and is happily married to Jennifer Kapangama Covington, and they have one daughter, Angeline Jonga.

Rev. Covington was educated in the Atlantic City public school system and served six years in the United States Army as a Dental specialist.  Rev. Covington studied at the Philadelphia College of Bible-South Jersey Campus. 

Rev. Covington was called to preach the Gospel while serving as the Director of Youth Ministries at the Faith Baptist Church of Pleasantville, NJ, under the pastoral leadership of the Reverend Dr. Milton L. Hendricks.

Having a passion for urban ministry he was employed as a chaplain in the Department of Men’s Ministry for the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, while concurrently serving in his home church as Assistant -to-the-Pastor.

Rev. Covington was later called from home missions to the foreign mission field of Malawi, Africa.  In Malawi he served as the Pastor of the Blantyre Baptist Church and Christian School, an international, multi-cultural evangelical ministry.

While in Malawi, Pastor Covington not only served his church and school but was very active in many other Para-church and community organizations. Pastor Covington was the pioneer of an indigenous Christian Education Curriculum for Elementary Education relative to Malawian students.  He continues to work in partnership with the Church in Malawi

Rev. Covington has discipled and mentored six sons in the Gospel Ministry.

Pastor Covington currently serves as the proud Pastor of the Union Missionary Baptist Church in Albany, New York and the Chairman of the Crenshaw Memorial Development Corporation. 

The Union church and her mission “To Know Christ and Make Christ Known” is now the top priority of Pastor Covington’s ministry.  He continues to exercise his passion and gifts of preaching, teaching, mentoring and disciplining.   Pastor Covington has a special passion for the struggling and the suffering.  He is often found praying that Lord of the harvest send Laborers into His harvest.

His Philosophy for ministry is “Bring In - Build Up - Send Out”
His Motto is “Where there is breath - There is hope.”