Reverend Patricia Gardner

Reverend Gardner has been a member of the Allen Temple family for twenty-eight years. After raising a family of four and working in public service for over forty years with the State of California Employment Development Department and the City of Richmond Parks and Recreation Department, God has called her to a higher calling. She has recently been appointed as Director of the Allen TempleVolunteer Mnistries Program. She serves on the Prison Mnistry Team and is the President for the Allen Temple Leadership Institute Alumni Association. She is a Bible Study teacher for the Volunteers of America Family Booth House, an alternative prison facility for mothers and their children. She strives to do the will of God by spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ through out the community and where ever God Leads.

Mnister Gardner obtained her Bachlor of Arts Degree from the University of San Francisco in San Francisco California, a Certificate in Leadership from The Allen Temple Leadership Institute in Oakland California and she is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at The American Baptist Seminary Of The West in Berkeley, California.