Regional Connection Breakfast for Fellowship and Prayer

Rev. Dr. Micah McCreary, President, NBTS 

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Rev. Dr. Micah L. McCreary began his term as the 12th president of New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 2017.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan; a Master of Divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University; and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

President McCreary is a member of the New Brunswick Classis of the Reformed Church in America (RCA).  He was ordained by the New Hope Baptist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan (member of the National Baptist Convention), and his ordination was recognized by the American Baptist Churches in 2001 and received by the RCA in 2018. In 2021 President McCreary was installed as an RCA General Synod Professor of Theology.

The Rev. “Dr.” Mary Newbern-Williams is Honorably Retired from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (2020) and serves as the Transitional Presbyter for the Presbytery of New York City. In this capacity, she resources the Presbytery as it discerns next steps in ministry. She has served as a pastor, associate executive presbyter, and executive presbyter in the PCUSA around the nation.

She was a Delegate and Leader for the Women’s Pre-Conference Leader for the PCUSA in Accra, Ghana for the WARC (now WCRC) 24^th General Assembly (2004); Commissioner to General Assembly for the PCUSA (2012); Delegation leader and mission research participant to the Democratic Republic of Congo; mission education participant to Kenya and Ghana; leader/participant in Guyana; mission participant with a delegation and preacher for a presbytery in Nicaragua; Continuing Education participant in Jordan, Switzerland, and France.

Mary is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace University and Princeton Theological Seminary, (M.A. in Christian Education and the M. Div. in Theology and Pastoral Care}. She received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from a PCUSA college when she served the National Office in Higher Education for the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Anna Jackson, Former NBTS Board of Trustees Moderator and Pastor of Second Reformed Church in Hackensack N.J.

Rev. Anna Melissa Jackson is a native New Yorker and the eldest child of immigrant parents who came to the U.S. from the Republic of Panama.  She has had a variety of work experiences over the years. She was a bookkeeper in her father’s accounting firm, a legislative aide in the New York State Assembly, and a vice president in the derivatives division of an investment bank. 

In the Reformed Church in America (RCA), Pastor Anna has served on the General Synod Council, as the Moderator of the Board of Trustees at New Brunswick Seminary, and on various commissions and task forces. She also represented the RCA as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

Pastor Anna is a graduate of Hofstra University and holds a Masters of Divinity from New Brunswick Theological Seminary.  In 2000, she was ordained as Minister of Word and Sacrament in the RCA and has been serving in the pastorate ever since. She and her husband, Rev. Dwayne Jackson, have been co-pastors of Second Reformed Church since 2017.