About

Reverend Dr. Donald Porter is the founder of Donald Porter Ministries. Dr. Porter was raised in the Mississippi Delta, in a town called Alligator. He is a trail blazer in providing training in the area of grief for churches. Dr. Porter has conducted workshops for 20 years in fourteen states. He is presently a minister at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, and has served as a Staff Minister in Georgia, Alabama and Ohio. While serving as former Assistant Pastor and Director of Pastoral Care at Mount Bethel Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he was described as a preacher with “a heart of love and passion for doing ministry.” Dr. Porter also served as Interim Pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Porter completed degrees at Mississippi Valley State University, Interdenominational Theological Center, and United Theological Seminary where he received the Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Care. His Doctor of Ministry project was entitled A Grief Support Group as an Element of Pastoral Care in an African American Church.

Dr. Porter has been trained in the area of Pastoral Care. He possesses a wealth of knowledge in the field of grief and caregiving. He received his Clinical Pastoral Education training at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, and Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received five units of CPE. Dr. Porter has a love and passion for ministering to the grieving in the church.

In addition to facilitating Grief Workshops and preaching, he has also written a booklet entitled Comforting Words for Discomforting Times and a manual entitled How to Be an Effective Caregiver. Dr. Porter has served as Grief Counselor for churches.

He is married to Dr. Phyllis E. Johnson-Porter.