Pastor Gregory Toussaint was born in Haiti, in the commune of Carrefour, located in the southern suburbs of Port-au-Prince, the capital. In Queens, New York, he completed his college education at York College. It was also at this time that he truly committed his life to Christ. “When I was in Haiti, I went to church just to please my father, but I wasn’t saved yet. I didn’t personally make the decision to follow Christ,” he recalls. Today, he is one of the best-known Haitian pastors in the diaspora.
Currently, he leads the Tabernacle of Glory Church, which he founded with his wife Patricia in late 2006 in Miami. He explains that he came to pastoral ministry “out of concern to see lives change.”
“After more than fifteen years evangelizing around the world, I sometimes found that I could preach for 10 years in a church without perceiving significant changes, or at least without being present long enough to witness them. This was for me a source of dissatisfaction in my ministry as an evangelist.”
Today, Pastor Gregory Toussaint is delighted to see this desire fulfilled within the framework of his pastoral ministry. “I have seen lives transformed by the message of the Gospel. Some young people were prostitutes, drug addicts, gang members and through the Word of God they found a new life. Others were rejected by traditional churches because of their youthful mistakes. These young people had abandoned the church, but they came to the Tabernacle of Glory because we avoided judging them without justifying their actions.
Married to Patricia Toussaint and father of two children, Gregory Jr and Joshua, Gregory Toussaint is not only an evangelist, pastor, speaker and author, but since December 2012, he is also the owner and host of an evangelical radio station: Radio Shekinah.