Jimmie Davis Compton Jr.

Jimmie Compton served for over thirty years as Senior Pastor of Hope Bible Fellowship Church in Detroit, Michigan. He holds a master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary and worked as a licensed therapist for twenty-five years, bringing a rare combination of pastoral and clinical insight to his ministry.

Jimmie has served in a range of counseling and chaplaincy roles, including with the Detroit Police Chaplain Corps and Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries. He completed an in depth, six-year research project into Early African Church History, from Jesus's Resurrection to the Rise of Islam, which has since been developed into a two-year, self-paced online curriculum at Hope Institute, the teaching and ministerial arm of Hope Bible Fellowship Church.

Jimmie is the author of In All Things, Love: Escaping the Church Schism Cycle, A Ball of Confusion in Galatia: Fighting a Religious, Nationalistic, and Ethnic Battle, Re-Weaponized Prayer Against Divisiveness, and Church Leader's Eyes That See.