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Pastor Robert G. Johnson

Robert's passion is helping others pay attention to and cooperate with God's grace and God's purpose in their lives. He is the planting pastor of New World UMC, and is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. He served for 9 years as an associate at Windsor Village UMC, where he also served as executive director of the church's national leadership development conference. Robert's role at NWC involves visioning, foundationing, equipping, teaching, preaching, and developing.

Robert and his wife, Linda, have been married for 22 years, and have two daughters, Giselle and Kayla.

       
         

Pastor Clarence White, III
Pastor CW has a heart for God's people and a desire to assist people to live Jesus-centered lives based on transparency and unconditional love. He is a proud graduate of Florida A & M University where he earned a Bachelors Degrees in Actuary Science and Business. In 2009, CW completed his Masters of Psychology with a concentration on Marriage & Family Therapy at Our Lady of the Lake University and is currently working toward his Masters of Divinity at Perkins School of Theology.

In his role as an Associate Pastor at New World UMC he is serving as the Administrative Pastor and co-leads the Young Adults and Marriage Ministries. Pastor CW and his wife Tracie Jae share the duty and joy of co-parenting 5 children - Caden (7), Myles (9), Tahirah (13), Nailah (15) and Zakiyyah (17).

       
         

Pastor Kefentse Risher - Pastor Risher is a gifted preacher and teacher whose early christian development occured in the womb of the Black Christian Nationalist Movement of the Shrine of the black Madonna in southeast Houston. He then experienced the socially-impactful and spiritually invigorating ministry of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, where embraced his call to ministry and became a ministry-candidate in the United Methodist Church. Having established a friendship with Pastor Robert Johnson while at Windsor Village, Pastor Risher felt led by God to join Pastor Johnson in helping to build a new congregation in West Houston. Pastor Risher is known for incisive discernment and uncomprising honesty in his delivery and teaching of God's Word.