- Dr. PJ, known to many as Pastor Jeff, believes that healing prepares the heart. Before any title, before any stage, the work begins with what a person has made peace with inside. That conviction has carried him from the pulpit to the keynote platform to one-on-one grief work, and it is the throughline of everything he builds.
- He is an international inspirational speaker and grief consultant who has moved audiences across the United States and around the world, from Honduras and Haiti to Germany, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Africa. In Haiti, that work took shape as Church with No Walls. Along the way he has trained and mentored more than one hundred ministers worldwide, and he formerly served as pastor of Historic Hosannah Missionary Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia.
- Dr. PJ is a certified NLP practitioner, a marriage and relationship facilitator, a real estate investor, a videographer, and a consultant. He is the author of Embracing Gratitude in Grief: A Transformative Perspective , the 31-day devotional Conversations with God from the War in Afghanistan and its companion journal, and From the Heart of rev."m" , a collection of poems.
- He is a retired Army veteran and a recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. His own story is the ground he speaks from. God has taken him from poverty to prosperity, from trauma to triumph, from broken to builder, and from abused to affirming others.
- That is the heart of his message. Grief isolates us, but gratitude reconnects us. Dr. PJ helps people move from a victim mindset to a victor mindset, and from the pain of grief to the power of their gratitude. If you are carrying grief right now, his grief eBook is available to you at no cost: https://pastorjeffspeaks.com/my-gift-to-you