The Shepards of the Flock

Rev. Antonio Booth,
Co-Pastor

The Rev. Antonio Booth was born in Durham, North Carolina. He is the son of the late William and Mildred Booth. After graduating from high school, Rev. Booth attended North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration. He furthered his education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts where he received the Master of Arts degree in Theology.

Rev. Antonio has served in ministry capacities in New York and New Hampshire. He has served as an Associate Minister at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Albany, New York, Associate Minister at the New Fellowship Baptist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire and Associate Pastor of Assimilation at the South Main Street Church in Manchester, New Hampshire.

While in his twenties, Rev. Antonio served for three years at His Mansion Ministries, a Christian counseling center, in Deering, NH. He spent three years at this faith ministry without getting paid a salary. He states “when you give your time, talent and treasure to the Lord, you will be blessed.”

For over 15 years, Rev. Antonio worked for Crotched Mountain Foundation in Greenfield, New Hampshire where he was Director of Case Management, Executive Director of Community Partnerships, and Executive Director of Residential Services.

On June 19, 1999, Rev. Antonio married the Rev. Roxanne Jones. After seven years of marriage, the two accepted to do mission work with the Foreign Mission Board (FMB) of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. and moved to the Kingdom of Swaziland in May 2006.

From May 2006 to March 2009, Rev. Antonio Booth was FMB Regional Representative in the countries of South Africa and Lesotho. In South Africa Rev. Antonio was responsible for leadership development training with clergy and church leaders representing over one hundred National Baptist churches and in Lesotho he was responsible for leadership development training with clergy and church leaders in three National Baptist churches. Rev. Antonio also served as the Acting Clinic Administrator at the National Baptist Mission Clinic in Swaziland.

After serving one year as Interim Co-Pastors, Rev. Antonio Booth and his wife the Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth were elected as the permanent Co-Pastors of the Riverview Missionary Baptist Church on November 28, 2010.

Currently, Rev. Antonio Booth is also a Program Administrator for the Center for Disability Services. He is also Vice President of the Congress of Christian Education of the Hudson River Frontier Missionary Baptist Association. Additionally, he is also the President of the RCS Community Library's Board of Trustees.

“To God be the glory, great things he has done.”

Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth, Co-Pastor

Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth grew up in Catskill, New York. She is the daughter of the late Samuel and Marjorie Jones. She is a three-time graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC where she received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, the Master of Arts degree in Religious Studies, and the Master of Divinity degree. She is also a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton Massachusetts, having received the Doctor of Ministry degree specializing in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies.

Rev. Dr. Booth was married to the Reverend Antonio Booth on June 19, 1999. After seven years of marriage, Rev. Dr. Booth and Rev. Antonio Booth accepted to do missions work with the Foreign Mission Board (FMB) of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. and moved to the Kingdom of Swaziland in May 2006. Before marriage Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth served four years as a mission worker in the Kingdom of Swaziland and three years in South Africa with the Foreign Mission Board from 1991-1998.

In July 2004, Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth planned the Foreign Mission Board’s first HIV/AIDS Leadership Empowerment Conference in South Africa. This Conference bought together clergy and church leaders from National Baptist Churches in Swaziland and South Africa for leadership training for tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS. At the Conference clergy and church leaders received relevant information on HIV/AIDS counseling and testing training, pastoral counseling in bereavement and grief as well as information for setting up HIV/AIDS support groups, feeding programs, and home-based health care training programs in their churches.

From May 2006 to March 2009, Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth was the Foreign Mission Board Regional Representative in Swaziland. In Swaziland the mission ministry involved leadership development training with clergy and church leaders of nine National Baptist churches, supervision of a pre-school and clinic and distribution of scholarships to 75 Swazi students.

Upon their return to the United States in March 2009, Rev. Dr. Booth and Rev. Antonio Booth served as Interim Co-Pastors of Riverview Missionary Baptist Church from January 2010 to December 2010.   In March 2011 the two were installed as the permanent Co-Pastors of the Riverview Missionary Baptist Church. This is the church were Rev. Dr. Booth was baptized and the church which ordained her for the Gospel ministry.

Currently, Rev. Dr. Booth is an Adjunct Professor at the State University of New York at Albany in the College of Arts and Sciences Africana Studies Department lecturing in African/African American Religion. She is also a proud and active life-time member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and serves as the Dean of the Hudson River Frontier Missionary Baptist Association Congress of Christian Education.

To God be the glory!