Elder James E. McKnight, Jr.

Elder James E. McKnight Jr. shares The Gospel through outreach programs across the Bradford County Community in Florida.

Elder McKnight serves as president of the Bradford County Ministerial Alliance and is the president and founder of Bradford County Faith Community Center, a faith-based organization that serves North Central Florida by providing HIV testing and counseling, a recovery program and prison ministry, food distribution and a family literacy program.

Last year he led an expansion project that included the purchase of more than 21 acres to better serve Bradford County and its surrounding areas.

Elder McKnight has been serving the Lord since he was a teenager. The eldest son Bishop James E. and Mother Jessie McKnight, Elder McKnight has been a member of the Executive Council since 2003.

He began his ministry in 1985, holding services inside of an abandoned store in Bradford County, with his wife, DeLois, and their three children as members.

The McKnight's, who have long since moved beyond the walls of their makeshift sanctuary, hold multiple Sunday services in their current church to accommodate their growing congregation.