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Rev. Lawrence M. Harper
Rev. Lawrence M. Harper is planter/pastor of New Creation Missionary Baptist Church located at 806 Taylor Ave.in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Macon, GA but is a lifetime resident of Columbus, Ohio where he attended and graduated from Linden McKinley High School. He pursued a Bachelors Degree in Theological Studies through Trinity College Seminary in Newburgh, IN, attended the Boyce Bible College in Grove City, Ohio where he studied Pastoral Leadership and Pastoral Counseling, studied at Eastern Union Bible College in Columbus, Ohio where he completed course work in the Old and New Testament Surveys. Rev. Harper is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Theological Studies at Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University Columbus, Ohio.
He accepted his call to the Gospel Ministry and was licensed in 1989 and ordained in 2001 by the Eastern Union Missionary Baptist Association. He served as Associate Minister and Minister of Evangelism at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, now known as New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church until receiving and accepting his call to the pastorate in July 2007.
Rev. Harper was installed as the second Pastor of New Life Baptist Church on October 14, 2007, where he faithfully shepherd until October 3, 2010. After leading New Life for three years, a new calling from the Lord came to establish a new kingdom building work. Obeying the leading of the Lord, Pastor Harper moved in faith organizing and planting New Creation Missionary Baptist Church on October 18, 2010.
Pastor Harper has faithfully served in multiple community outreach services which include, Music and Word in the Air, feeding the homeless and providing worship services to various nursing homes.
Rev. Harper is a member of the Columbus Baptist Pastor’s Conference, Columbus Baptist Ministerial Alliance of Columbus and Vicinity, American Baptist Association and served as 2nd Vice-Moderator of the Greater Grace Missionary Baptist Association 2011-2013, Vice President of Columbus Baptist Association 2023-2024, and currently serving as President of Columbus Baptist Association, made up of 27 multicultural churches.
He is the husband of the lovely Gwendolyn G. Walker-Harper, they are the proud and blessed parents of five adult children, fifteen grandchildren and two great-grand children.
The church theme at New Creation is;
“We are a people living in the life changing power of God’s Grace.” II Corinthians 5:17
It is Pastor Harper’s belief that we are living because Christ lives, and we are in the life changing power of His Grace because we are abiding (surrendered) in Him.
One of his favorite scriptures is Philippians 2:13, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”