Roger R. Wade has a passion for the church’s most precious resource—the youth. He has worked in Youth Ministries for the past 40 years leading out as AY leader to Union Youth Director. Since his call to the organized church in 1998, he has served the Northeastern, Southern California, Southwest Region, South Central conferences; and as of April 1, 2019, began serving as the Church Ministries Director of the Mid-America Union Conference. As a duly ordained worker of the gospel ministry, through the power of the Holy Spirit, God has used him to date to baptize over 850persons. He teaches, preaches, writes, as well as produces and coordinates many large meetings and events.
Married to the former Lorraine Lawrence of Neptune, New Jersey, they have one young adult son: Anthony Roger Richard Wade.