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Jason Barr 
Jason Barr
Senior Pastor
Macedonia Baptist Church
Pittsburgh, PA
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Jason A. Barr, Jr. is currently the senior pastor of Macedonia Church in Pittsburgh, PA where he has served since 1988. He is a native of Jacksonville, Florida where he was educated in the public school system.
Pastor Barr received a B.A. Degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Upon graduation he was recognized as the Most Outstanding Graduate in Leadership. He then matriculated at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he received a Master of Divinity degree in 1983. He also completed the Community and Economic Development program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1998. He has further postgraduate study at the University of Florida College of Architecture, Babcock School of Management of Wake Forest University, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Boston University School of Theology, and the Beeson Institute of Advanced Church Leadership.
Macedonia’s witness is evident locally and within the global community. Since 1988 Macedonia has experienced a fivefold increase in membership, worship attendance, and budget. Additionally the church and its offspring corporations employs more than thirty five individuals and has an aggregate budget in excess of three million dollars. Pastor Barr has inspired the founding of Macedonia Family and Community Enrichment Center (Macedonia FACE), a non profit social service organization. His vision also led to the development of the Macedonia Development Corporation, a corporation devoted to the economic empowerment of the community primarily through the development of housing and job training. The church actively supports the education of children in South Africa and hosts students from South Africa each summer.
In addition to his pastoral duties Pastor Barr is an adjunct professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Geneva College in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. He has also taught at the University of Florida, the University of Pittsburgh and Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina.
Pastor Barr is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Macedonia Family and Cultural Enrichment Center, an organization he founded to help the church more effectively reach out to the Community. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the African American Cultural Center and a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated.
Since his arrival in Pittsburgh, Pastor Barr has served on many other boards, committees, councils and is frequently invited to provide counsel, seminars, workshops and revivals for many churches, and other institutions.
He is the former pastor of the New Zion Baptist Church in Spindale, North Carolina. He is former moderator of the Gold Hill Missionary Baptist Association in western North Carolina.
Pastor Barr is married to the former Kimberly Waddell. They are the proud parents of one son, Jason III.
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