MINISTERIAL PROFILE
Michael Anthony Long was born in Louisburg, NC and is a resident and native of Greensboro, NC. He began his preaching ministry as a Licensed Minister at the Mount Zion Baptist Church of Greensboro. Pastor Long studied Engineering Physics and Secondary Education at North Carolina A&T State University and is a cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he received the Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies. He is currently a Master of Divinity student at Duke University Divinity School. He was ordained by the Guilford Educational and Missionary Association through the Mount Zion Baptist Church.
Pastor Long’s ministerial experience covers over 28 years of activity and includes currently serving as the Pastor of the Zion Baptist Church of Reidsville, North Carolina. He also serves as the 2nd Vice Moderator of the Rowan Missionary Baptist Association. Previous ministerial experience includes serving as a Pastor in the High Point, Liberty, and Pelham North Carolina communities. He served as Assistant to the Pastor at the Bank Street Memorial Baptist Church in Norfolk, VA. His ministry is highlighted by dynamic preaching and teaching and fervent worship.
He has been actively involved in religious, community, and civic activities in the communities of which he has lived and served. He is deeply committed to outreach ministries that serve the needs of the disadvantaged and homeless persons. Pastor Long has been active as a Minister in the Guilford and Cedar Grove Associations of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. He also served as member of the Executive Committee of Deep River Baptist Union in the Deep River Association. Pastor Long served a term as the Secretary of the Liberty Association of Churches, Liberty NC.
Pastor Long’s community and civic activities include serving on the Board of Directors and as a Trustee of the Early Childhood Education Endowment for the Rockingham County Partnership for Children, Inc. and the Board of Directors for the Reidsville Soup Kitchen. He also serves on the Community Advisory Board of The National Children Study in Rockingham County and the Rockingham County Healthy Carolinians Access to Health Care Workgroup. Previous civic involvement has included serving as a Member of the Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity of Randolph County; former Chief Judge of Voting Precinct G35C, Guilford County Board of Elections; and former Member of the Speech Pathology and Audiology Clinic Advisory Board, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA. He has worked as a Senior Analyst/Developer who managed a team responsible for the operation and technical design of a major multi-million dollar billing system in Winston Salem, NC.
Pastor Long has received a number of recognitions and awards for ministerial and community service, which includes the Black Achievers in Industry and Business Award from the Winston Lake Family YMCA of Winston Salem, NC, the Key to the City from the Mayor and City Council of Reidsville, NC and the Humanitarian and Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Pastor Long is married to the former Robin DeShazo of Danville, VA and they have two sons, Christopher Alan and Cameron Avery, and one daughter, Brittany Nicole.