Pastory Troy Sanders

Pastor Troy Sanders’ relationship with the divine started when he was a toddler, preaching on the front porch of his home in Denmark, South Carolina, and has served as the bedrock of his faith and ministry. As he grew so did his yearning and zeal for spiritual things, resulting in a life-long ministry designed to affect the lives of youth and adults.
 
In addition, as he has grown in age, he has also grown personally and spiritually, owning a personal mandate to walk in truth. It is this journey that has prepared him for the call¬ing to minister words of healing and inspiration, being fully aware of the Pauline experience of once being a persecutor now join¬ing the honorable ranks of those persecuted for the sake of true liberation.

His ministerial background includes eight years as a fulltime travel¬ing minister; 12 years of church administration, where he created training curriculums and modules for leadership development; lecturing; and the development and institutionalization of a gos¬pel choir in his hometown of Denmark.

In 1993, Pastor Troy moved to Atlanta, Georgia. While challenging both physically and spiritually, the move but would ultimately birth wisdom and maturity in a boy who bore a manly call. He graduated from Southwest DeKalb High School in 1995 with honors. In 2001, he completed his Bachelors of Arts program from Beulah Heights University (Atlanta, GA) as the class valedictorian. While at Beulah Heights, he began the Generation of Warriors Incorporated (1996) – a group of youth and young adults committed to providing holis¬tic education and awareness to people of all ages, stages, and backgrounds.
 
Enriched by the mandate to be an advocate of liberation to all, Pastor Troy is equally grateful for his ministry of music. He completed a dual Master’s of Divinity and Masters of Art degree at the Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, GA) in 2008.

Currently, Pastor Troy is an Executive Committee member of The Fellowship, an international movement of radically inclusive religious organizations committed to promoting liberation and addressing pivotal issues regarding racial, social, and economic equity. He also serves as a part of the ministerial staff with Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel and The Victory Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia. And he has created and implements a ministerial/laity leader¬ship module to train the church leaders how to address the countless administrative, religious, and non-religious needs of our community.
 
Continuing his commitment to speak to religious, social, and gender oppression, Pastor Troy has been featured on a number of panels across the country addressing the issues that LGBT people face while on the journey of reconciling their spirituality with their sexuality. In 2008, he provided consultation and training for The American Family Outgoing effort with SoulForce, a non-profit organization developed to provide freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance." In that time, Pastor Troy led a group of lesbian and gay families into mega churches across the nation to have non-combative dialogue with religious leaders around homophobia in the church and ways in which we can address the abuse affecting our people.
 
Pastor Troy has also served as a facilitator for Deeper Love, an African American Gay Outreach (AAGO) program of AID Atlanta leading holistic and healthy interfaith dialogue with black gay men of various ages on spirituality and sexuality while assisting in the work of connecting the two.