Hamden Plains United Methodist Church
OUR PASTOR
Pastor Cleaven Johnson, Jr., M.Div., is a professional with a unique combination of education, research, community health promotion, media, entertainment, managerial, public health, faith- based, pastoral, case management, recruitment and human services experiences.
Pastor Cleaven Johnson has a Master of Social Work degree and a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut.
He has an extensive background in children and family services, drug/violence prevention and educational services. Additionally, he has had a career in managing community relations, promoting, recruiting and marketing the tours of a national business exposition to the national community in 15 major cities that attracted hundreds of thousands of consumers, and was televised to fifty million viewers in twenty-eight countries.
In his words, “My desire is to utilize my human services, managerial, education, recruitment, community relations, research, event planning, and professional divinity training in ministry or chaplaincy and also to provide compassionate, competent and skillful services to any appointment where I am charged to function as their pastor.”
