Following years of urban ministry in Chicago and Cincinnati, Alvin and his wife, Caroline, founded River of Life Church in downtown Cincinnati in the midst of civil unrest over the shooting death of an African American teenager by a white police officer.
Alvin served for seven years as founding pastor of River of Life. Concurrently, he served for three years as Director of Ethnic Ministries for Cincinnati Christian University. He presently serves as Director of Reconciliation for the Evangelical Free Church of America (www.efca.org), where his passion is to infuse the vision of reconciliation as being the mission of God in a fallen world. This position is one of the first of its kind among evangelical denominations.
A graduate of Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio (B.S., Biblical Studies), and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (M.A., Religion/Urban Ministry), Alvin received his doctorate in Educational Leadership from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A portion of his dissertation was published in The Language of Diversity: Restoration Toward Peace and Unity (Cambridge Scholars Press).
Married since 1994, Alvin and Caroline live in Cincinnati with their two children, Hannah and Gabrielle.
