Rev. Kendrick Curry has served as Pastor of the Pennsylvania Baptist Church for 13 years.  He is active in the faith community and the community at large, seeking to bring a faith-based perspective to the pressing challenges of the day.  In addition to pastoring, Pastor Curry has worked as Research Engineer for Union Carbide Corporation (now Dow Chemical), Program Director of the NASA/Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship Program of the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation, and Associate Research Director and adjunct faculty member at West Virginia State University.  Rev. Curry has also been a small business owner.

Rev. Curry serves as a leader on the Mayor’s Interfaith Council (under three mayors), on the Stoddart Baptist Nursing Home Board of Directors where he chairs the Human Resources Committee, as a Board of Trustees member of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and the UDC Foundation, and as a Trustee of the Leland Center for Theological Studies.

Rev. Curry holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Prairie View A&M University, a Master of Science Degree and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Divinity from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University.  He is currently a Doctor of Ministry student in Worship and Congregational Formation at Northern Theological Seminary near Chicago.