DR. STEPHEN J. CLAY has served as the Senior Pastor of the Messiah Baptist Church of Indianapolis, Indiana for 26 years. For more than 33 years, he has utilized his God-given gifts of preaching and teaching to reach the unsaved and the uncertain in an effort to bring them into a proper relationship with Jesus Christ. Pastor Stephen J. Clay is a graduate of Bishop College of Dallas, Texas where he obtained his Bachelors of Arts in Religion and Philosophy with postgraduate studies at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Biblical Theology from Beulah Bible College. Pastor Clay has brought the analytical scrutiny of the classroom, coupled with Holy Ghost fire from above, to the preaching hour thus creating an explosion that shakes sinners from their seats and brings believers to their feet.
2011 Churchwide Theme - THE YEAR OF GREAT MANIFESTATION "And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions, and also on My menservants and My maidservants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.'' Joel 2:28-29 NKJV
