Dr. Joy, The GRŌ Coach

Partner - Strategist - Coach

 

The Reverend Dr. Joy Challenger Slaughter is an extraordinary visionary leader who operates with passion and creativity. She is a gifted mentor, lecturer, teacher, and coach who cares deeply about people and seeing them grow in faith, life, and leadership. Through her preaching gift, Dr. Slaughter ministers to God’s people in love and equips them for enduring Christian lives by presenting a sound, balanced, relevant, and practical Gospel message.  

 

Dr. Slaughter is the founder of Grō Coach a limited liability corporation providing strategic planning, organizational (re)design/development, leadership training, and coaching for individuals, peer groups, and corporate bodies. Grō represents the intersection of Joy’s passion for people, her corporate and non-profit experience, and educational/technical training. Gro’s customers include small business, industry, churches, non-profits, and other religious institutions or denominations.

 

Dr. Joy’s ministerial experience includes serving as the Administrative Pastor of the Third New Hope Baptist Church (Detroit) where she gave oversight to the office staff, ministry operations, and ministry/leadership development. Prior to that, she also served as the Children and Youth Minister. She has taught and written curriculum with the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. (on the local, regional, and national level); the Heritage Center for Religious Studies; Urban Youth Workers Institute’s; and was part of the Executive Team of REVERSE/Detroit a multicultural Christian youth movement. Currently, she is an Associate Minister at the Alfred Street Baptist Church – serving on leader of the Evangelism Ministry, the Adult VBS Experience, and serving on the curriculum & exegetical Sunday School writing teams, the intercessory prayer team, and as an MIT facilitator.

 

Prior to entering vocational ministry, Joy was the Regional Manager for Global Insurance at Royal and SunAlliance, and Underwriting Officer for Chubb & Son Inc. Since, she has worked for the District of Columbia Superior Court and as administrator for a District of Columbia governmental contracting firm. Presently she works as a Manager with the U.S. Government. She earned a Doctor of Ministry from Duke Divinity School, Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary, a Diploma in Theology and Ministry from Hosanna Bible Training Center, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Wesleyan University.  She is a certified Preaching Coach from the David G. Buttrick Certificate Program in Homiletic Peer Coaching at Vanderbilt University.

 

Joy and her husband Brian reside in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. In her spare time, she is Joiful Creations Co.—a custom holiday/thematic wreath company—and the host of a new online community focusing on women’s romantic relationships and empowerment (A Woman’s Way: Honest Conversations for Lasting Relationships). She loves music, movies, the theater; but especially cooking for family and friends in her home.