Worship service will be held at 10:30 am on January 19th, Hayworth Chapel
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Worship Service at High Point University brings the most influential preachers in the world to commemorate and celebrate Dr. King’s memory and legacy. It is a unique worship experience that testifies to what a values-based, liberal arts education does: inspiring intellectual growth in service of a transformed world shaped by justice and compassion.
2026 Guest Preacher
Bishop Claude Richard Alexander, Jr., Senior Pastor, The Park Church
Having accepted the call to ministry at the age of 17 in May of 1981, and prepared himself graduating from Morehouse College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bishop Claude Richard Alexander, Jr. has sought to serve God and community. After serving as Pastor of Morning Star Baptist Church in West MiKlin, PA from 1987- 1990, Bishop Alexander answered the call to be the Senior Pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina in May of 1990. Under his leadership, it has grown into a global ministry of thousands, with weekly international reach. He has addressed national and
international leaders in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and India.
Bishop Alexander is a Past President of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the oldest and largest interdenominational gathering of African-American clergy in the United States. Currently, he serves on the boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, BioLogos, Movement.Org, the International African-American Museum, Gloo, and the Trinity Forum. He provides leadership as chair of the Board of Christianity Today Board of Directors, and as Vice Presiding Bishop of the Kingdom Association of Covenant Pastors.
He is the author of Required: God’s Call to Justice, Mercy and Humility to Overcome Racial Division coauthored with Dr. Mac Pier, Necessary Christianity - What Jesus Shows We Must Be and Do, and Becoming The Church - God’s People in Purpose and in Power.
He and his wife Dr. Kimberly Nash Alexander are the proud parents of two daughters, Camryn Rene and Carsyn Richelle.
Bishop Alexander is a Past President of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the oldest and largest interdenominational gathering of African-American clergy in the United States. Currently, he serves on the boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, BioLogos, Movement.Org, the International African-American Museum, Gloo, and the Trinity Forum. He provides leadership as chair of the Board of Christianity Today Board of Directors, and as Vice Presiding Bishop of the Kingdom Association of Covenant Pastors.
He is the author of Required: God’s Call to Justice, Mercy and Humility to Overcome Racial Division coauthored with Dr. Mac Pier, Necessary Christianity - What Jesus Shows We Must Be and Do, and Becoming The Church - God’s People in Purpose and in Power.
He and his wife Dr. Kimberly Nash Alexander are the proud parents of two daughters, Camryn Rene and Carsyn Richelle.
MLK Day Speaker Archive:
2022 & 2023 Speaker
Dr. Elwood Robinson, Chancellor of Winston Salem State University
2008 Speaker
Rev. Dr. John Kinney
2007 Speaker
Rev. Dr. James Forbes
2006 Speaker
Ms. Wanda Stark
