Background
Battle, Vann DuWayne was born on August 15, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Thomas Oscar and Lenora Battle.
Battle, Vann DuWayne was born on August 15, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Thomas Oscar and Lenora Battle.
Student, Howard University. Student, Wesleyan College, Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. Student, Oxford University, England.
Bachelor, Barton College, 1979. Master of Divinity, Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, 1982. Doctor of Ministry, Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, 1985.
Pastor Smith Chapel Baptist Church, Enfield, North Carolina, 1979-1989, St. Paul's Baptist Church, Montclair, New Jersey, since 1989. Adjunct professor Shaw University Division School, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1986-1989. Guest lecturer 43d National Baptist Student Union Retreat, Baton Rouge, 1987.
Lecturer, guest preacher, Senegal, The Gambia, 1988, Guyana Missionary Baptist Convention, Georgetown, 1988, 90. Member executive board Hampton (Virginia) University Ministers Conference, since 1988. Preacher annual convention Union Evangelical Baptist Haiti, 1991.
Trustee Homes of Montclair Corporation, 1989-1991. Member urban ministry committee American Baptist Churches New Jersey, East Orange, since 1990. Member executive committee ministers council American Baptist Churches New Jersey, since 1991, executive board Metropolitan Youth for Christ, since 1991.
Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Married Edith L. Sumner, May 19, 1979. Children: Thomas Oscar, Mary Elizabeth.