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Autobiography Reverend Dr. Joseph Oniyama Reverend Dr. Joseph Oniyama, is a native of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. He accepted Christ’s offer of salvation at the age of 13. In the 1980’s, Reverend Oniyama served as Monrovia Director of Youth for Christ Liberia where he worked as counselors’ coordinator, radio program producer and community club leader. He joined the Providence Baptist Church in 1983 and served as junior church director until his departure for the United States in 1988. In August 1988, Reverend Oniyama joined Calvary Baptist Church in East Orange, New Jersey, and over several years served as Sunday school teacher, VBS director, deacon, and youth minister. In October 2001, Reverend Oniyama was called by Calvary Baptist Church to become their 8 th Pastor. Reverend Oniyama also served as a member of the Board of Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missions Convention and member of the Board of East Orange General Hospital. He was Vice Moderator of the Essex Association of American Baptist Churches of New Jersey and Chair of the Ordination Committee. In response to the Great Commission, he has led several delegations of youth and adults on mission trips to China, England, Jamaica, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Ghana and Liberia. Reverend Oniyama currently serves as the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) United Nations Representative in New York. He is a member of the Board of the Healthcare Foundation of the Oranges, a member of the East Orange Clergy Association and a recipient of the prestigious Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Grant program in 2005. He is a graduate of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he received the Master of Divinity degree and the winner of Reverend Edward Lodwick Prize for Excellence in Preaching at the Seminary. He received the
