Bishop A.T. Griffey, III

64, Male

Nashville, TN

United States

Profile Information:

City You Live In: (Add closest Major City in Parentheses)
Nashville
State You Live In:
TENNESSEE TN
Church Status:
Senior Pastor
Church Name:
Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church of Nashville, Inc.
College Attended (optional):
Austin Peay State University, University of Texas at San Antonio, Emmanuel Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt, Duke
About Me: (Ministry Info, Hobbies, Fav. Music etc.)
Birthed in prayer, shrouded in humility, anointed through adversity and loosed unto God’s timing. “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see… for many have desired to see it and have not”. The ministry of Bishop (Dr.) A.T. Griffey, III spans now several decades unto the Kingdom of God. He found his roots in a Christian home and a strong Baptist upbringing under the ministry of his grandfather Pastor A.T. Griffey, Sr., Edgefield Baptist Church of Clarksville, Tennessee and later his father Dr. A.T. Griffey, Jr., Good Hope Baptist Church, Oak Grove, Kentucky.

Bishop Dr. Griffey served as the Editor of the Baptist Informer of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc. Dr. Griffey also served as Statistician and Executive and General Board member for the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc. He presently serves as Historian for the General Baptist family.

Bishop Dr. Griffey served as a pedagogue for the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., teaching Computers As A Ministry Tool and Believing As Baptist. Dr. Griffey also served as the Editor of National Baptist Lantern of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., Dr. S.J. Thruston, President. Pedagogue and 2005 Co-Host for the National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress, teaching Letter to The Hebrews and The Gospel of John, and the New Testament also From the Pew To The Pulpit, Dr. T.B. Boyd, III, President.

Bishop Dr. Griffey also serves in the High Point Educational and Missionary Baptist Association, Inc. He serves as, Director of Christian Education, 1st Vice President of the Congress of Christian Education, member of the Executive Board and served as Director of Youth, Children and Adult Trac for 9 years.

This man of God serves on the National Council of Churches (CUS) Committee, Committee on Unified Series,Which prepares Sunday School Lesson Outlines for Churches and Faith Communions through out the world.

He was also consecrated Bishop of Ecumenical Affairs on August 7, 2006, for and by TVCOD, Inc. an organization determined to spread the Word of God to all people of all denomination across the world. Bishop Griffey serves as Vice Dean of the College of Bishops and Overseers of True Vine Churches of Deliverance, International and serves as Secretariat General of True Vine Churches of Deliverance, International, Apostle Sylvester Davis Johnson, is Chief Apostle and Presiding Prelate.

Bishop Dr. Griffey has also taught in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School System as an EC Teacher at Mineral Springs Middle School.

This man of God has served four churches: First Missionary Baptist Church, Clarksville, Tennessee, First Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, In December of 1998 organized the Pentecostal Lighthouse Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, Inc., and accepted the call to Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, North Carolina on February 3, 2001. Dr. Griffey also served as Interim Pastor of the Morehead Avenue Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Griffey also merged Pentecostal Lighthouse and Mount Carmel Baptist Churches on December 31, 2001. Bishop now serves as Senior Pastor of the Historic Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee.

This man of God has learned much through the adversities of being a “desert child” but like all true desert children, he has also learned to overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of his testimony. His family consist of his wife and partner in ministry, Delores Thompson Griffey and they are the parents of one son, Dedrick a daughter in-law, Megan and three grandchildren, Dedrick, Desirae and Savanna.
Website:
http://www.atgriffeyministries.org
Favorite Preachers:
C.A.W. Clark, Gardner Taylor, Wyatt Tee Walker, Sandy Ray, Bob Wilson, Bill Augustus Jones,Stephen Thurston, E.K. Bailey, Ralph West, Wallace Hartsfield, Sr., Paul Morton, Charlie Adams and the list goes on...

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