Eugene F. Rivers is pastor of Pentecostal Azusa Christian Community (affiliated with the Church of God in Christ) in south Boston and president of Ella J. Baker House community organization in the Dorchester Four Corners neighborhood of Boston. Rivers co-founded the clergy-led National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, which is credited with helping to diminish gang violence in Boston and other urban areas. He is also general secretary of the Pan African Charismatic Evangelical Congress, through which African-American churches help African churches with AIDS projects and through which they lobby to affect U.S. foreign policy. Rivers has worked with the White House on faith-based projects.
| Website | http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/06/21/fiery_dorchester_pastor_undeterred_by_controversy/?page=full |
| Phone number | 617-282-6704 |
| Phone number 2 | 617-524-4331 |
| Categories | education, Foreign policy, Government & politics, Race & ethnicity, Society & culture |
| Locations | Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Christianity, Pentecostalism |