Reverend Dr. Lewis E. Logan II

Reverend Dr. Lewis E. Logan II, is the co-founder of Ruach Christian Community Fellowship, of Los Angeles California. Dr. Logan’s credentials include: a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College; a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology; a Master of Theology from Emory University; and a Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. While attending Candler, he served as president of the Black Caucus and was instrumental in establishing a Black Church Studies Program, and recruiting Rev. Dr. Robert M Franklin, as it’s first director.

Dr. Logan, accepted his call to ministry at the age of 14, preached his trial sermon on May 29, 1981 at the historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Baltimore Maryland which was under the leadership of the Bishop John R. Bryant, the Presiding Prelate of the 4th Episcopal District. He was ordained an Itinerant Deacon in May 1985 and an Itinerant Elder in May of 1987.  Dr. Logan has pastored the following congregations: The Norwood Circuit in Norwood, Georgia, from 1985 to 1988; the Social Circuit in Social Circle Georgia, from 1988 to 1989; Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church in Athens, Georgia, from 1989 to 1993; Turner Chapel A.M.E. in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1993 to 1997; St. Philip Monumental A.M.E. Church in Savannah, Georgia, from 1997 to 2001; and Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, California from 2001 to 2004.  Bethel A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, California, from November 2004 to October 2008, In October 2008-March 2009 he served as the Sr. Pastor of Wayman AME church in St. Louis, Missouri.

As a Pastor and Community Organizer for more than twenty five years, he has coordinated national events and facilitated Visioning Sessions, Annual Conferences, District Meetings, Leadership Retreats, Re-organizational Strategic Planning Sessions and Plenary Sessions. On September 2, 2005 he was sworn in as a commissioner to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, having been appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonia Villiaragosa, and unanimously confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council. The BONC is responsible for setting and overseeing policy, approval of contracts, leases, and rules and regulations for more than 100 neighborhood councils. He was elected as the Vice President for the Los Angeles Board of Neighborhood Commissioners. In December 2006 he was elected as Vice-President of the historic Los Angeles Council of Churches. In June 2008 he was elected president of the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners.

When a thirteen year old boy named Devin Brown was gunned down by an LAPD officer, on February 6, 2005, Dr. Logan, along with other faith and community leaders co-founded a grassroots organization named community call to action and accountability (CCAA). CCAA is a grassroots movement to stop police brutality and black on black and black on brown violence in Los Angeles. This CCAA movement resulted in Mayor James Hahn changing the “use of force” policy to make unlawful an officers shooting at moving suspect vehicles unlawful. Further, on January 31, 2006 the Los Angeles Police Commission, ruled that the LAPD officers’ shooting of Devin Brown as “out of policy”. Finally, the efforts of CCAA encouraged the extension of the Federally-mandated consent decree designed to enforce policy and practices reform in the LAPD.

On Dec 17, 2005 Bethel under Dr. Logan’s leadership hosted the funeral for “Crips” founder Stanley Tookie Williams who was executed by lethal injection by the State of California on December 14, 2005. From this experience Bethel was considered a “safety zone” for gang intervention work to stop the violence among gangs. To this day anti-gang intervention efforts at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles known as “CeaseFire”, an organization that brokers truces between neighborhood sets continues the hard work of keeping the peace. He fights for the human rights of immigrants, construction jobs for African American workers, and viable coalitions between black and brown (Latino) communities.

Since 2003, he has been a clergy organizer with the “Stand For Security” Campaign through SEIU/SOULA 2006 (Service Employees International Union/Security Officers Union of Los Angeles) and C.L.U.E. (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice). This historic campaign, the largest movement of African American workers since A. Philip Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, reached an unprecedented victory on Saturday January 19, 2008 and was announced during the 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in the city of Los Angeles. This resulting contract is the best in the country winning and unprecedented 40% increase in wages and benefits over the next five years. Currently, Dr. Logan is working with the hotel workers rising, airport workers united, construction workers, and Fresh and Easy access to healthy foods/grocery campaigns in efforts to improve access to healthy food choices and gain economic justice and benefits for African American workers in particular, and all workers in general in these related industries.

Dr. Logan has received national recognition of achievement as an “Outstanding Young Man of America” and was featured in “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” In 2005, Dr. Logan received the Frontline Soldier Award presented by “A Gathering of Men – Pathways to Your Future.”  In 2006, Dr. Logan was inducted into Morehouse College of Preachers standing beside more than 50 great and influential alumni.  He received the Spirit of Excellence Community Activism award, presented by Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and was presented a Certificate of Recognition as a Neighborhood Commissioner by the Black Business Association. In 2007, Dr. Logan was the recipient of the Thomas Kilgore Jr. Prophetic Witness Award; he was inducted into the B.A.P.A.C. Political and Religious Hall of Fame; he received the M.L.K. Labor Tribute Award presented by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; was honored by Rainbow/PUSH and Citizen Education Fund with the 1000 Churches Award; and was awarded the L.A. Union’s Martin Luther King Jr. Watchman Award.  In 2008, Church Women United, Inc. recognized Dr Logan by awarded him the Human Rights Award. In 2008 he was included in the inaugural edition of “Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles” publication and the Lifetime achievement award from the Building Successful Men’s Academy.

His ministerial travels have been both international and national, including Quebec, Vancouver, B.C., Ontario, Brussels, East Germany, West Germany, Mexico, Singapore, Taipie, Chennai, India, Bermuda, most of the fifty United States.

Dr. Logan is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and the eldest son of Mr. Lewis Logan and Rev. Florence Logan. Dr. Logan is married to the love of his life Sudonna Gail Moss-Logan and is the father of two boys, Lewis III and Asa Bomani Diop; and one girl Jillique Marche’.

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