Min. Elmer Porter Hardy, Jr., is the newly elected Pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Port Jefferson, NY.

Born in the St. Nicholas Housing Projects in Harlem, N.Y. and raised in a single parent household in the South Bronx, Elmer attended the New York City Public School System from elementary through high school. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts from the New York Institute of Technology, his Master of Divinity from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and completed one year of his Doctor of Ministry from the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Elmer has worked as: Public Relations Director of Operation Y.E.S. (Youth Empowered to Succeed) at Harvest Ministries in Brooklyn; Production Assistant in New York Media at WNET Channel 13, WLTW Lite-FM Radio, and WOR-AM Radio; and as Community Relations Manager for Odyssey-a national interfaith cable-tv network which is currently the Hallmark Channel.

Elmer serviced for two years as interim Pastor at the First Baptist Church in Costa Rica, Central America and for seven years as an Associate Minister at the historic Walker Memorial Baptist Church in the Bronx, NY where the Rev. Dr. Joe Albert Bush, Sr., is the Pastor.

Elmer was licensed to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in December, 1992 and he preaches regularly throughout the Tri-State area. His motto is, “With God all things are possible, but without God nothing is worthwhile.”

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