Dr. Larry Green

Dr. Green was born in Massachusetts. In his youth, he was educated in the METCO system. He received certificates from the efficacy Institute, Boston Public Schools Center for Leadership Development, and BPS Mentor Program. He also has a Master's in Education from Cambridge College and a doctoral degree in Pastoral Community Counseling from Argosy University.

He served on several community boards, such as the Roxbury Multi-Service Center, METCO, Pine Street Inn, and the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center. Currently, he is the former president of the Baptist Conference of Boston & Vicinity Inc. and former Vice President of the New England Missionary Baptist Convention. Pastor Green is also certified as a Prepared/Enriched Marriage Counselor, has dedicated more than 47 years to educating young people as a teacher and administrator, and is certified by the Southern Baptist Convention as a Seminary Extension teacher in the Basic Diploma Series.

He began his faith journey at New Hope Baptist Church, in Boston, under the leadership of the late Rev. Dr. Madison Bryson Jr. It was at New Hope that he made his public confession in baptism and began to realize his passion and gift for youth ministry. He joined Mt Calvary Holy Assembly and was youth pastor under the late Dr. Joseph Ely, D.D., for ten years before returning to New Hope and serving a 10-year term as the Assistant Pastor. During his first year as an assistant pastor at New Hope, which had 1,000 members. Dr. Green heard a statistic that 80-85% of congregants in the African-American Church get their counseling from their pastor. Initially, he had the frightening feeling that he may not have been equipped to counsel that many people. But, he stepped forward in faith, not trusting in his ability. He relied only on the word of God and believed the promise that God would be his guide. Today, he looks back on that experience understanding that it helped pave the way for many years of service for people living with hurt. It was, in fact, one of the strongest motivations for his dissertation, "Pastoral Nouthetic Counseling for Urban Residents Dealing with Trauma Resulting from Violence. His concern for people has fueled his ministry in a transforming way.

He adopted prayer walking as a way of life, and he continually prayed for the city's peace. In 2006, he became the leader for a group of international prayer-walkers and had been privileged to prayer-walk in Madrid, Spain, Morocco, Paris, Marseille, Corsica, Germany, Iceland, and Turkey. His most memorable prayer-walking experiences are praying over France from the top of the Eiffel Tower and praying in Madrid, Spain, where he envisioned getting to glory and seeing the thousands of people who he prayed into the kingdom. If you ask Dr. Green about prayer, he would say that he is surrendered to God when he prayer-walks. It is a time of experiencing the Shalom of God.