Norvel goff biography
Reverend Dr. Norvel Goff, Sr., will begin a well-deserved retirement after years as an eminent church leader.
Goff graduated with an M. Div. in , and moved to Rochester, N.Y., to become pastor of Baber AME Church, where he served until In.!
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ROCHESTER, N.Y.
-- When Rev. Dr. Norvel Goff, Sr., was pastor of Baber African Methodist Episcopal Church in Rochester, among his many accomplishments was establishing the Faith Community Alliance, organizing pastors and Christian leaders in their efforts to tackle quality of life issues.
While overseeing a period of great growth at Baber AME from 1991 to 2004, he was also president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"He was a towering figure," the Rev.
Marlowe Washington of The Historic Parsells Church in Rochester. Goff was very involved in Rochester, "he had a heart for the community and spent 13 years in this city," Washington said.
Goff "made the church (the) forefront of social justice and the forefront of reconciliation in a lot of respects," he said at a press conference held at Northeast Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College in Chili.
Washington succeeded Goff at Babe
