PASTOR GARY MACK, SR

Associate Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church

Pastor Mack is the Associate Pastor  of Shiloh Baptist Church, One Family, Two Locations (Port Norris and Vineland, NJ). Pastor Gary Mack, Sr. Gary Mack, Sr. was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to the late Rev. Eula C. Mack and the late Barbara (Beckwith) Mack. Gary was the youngest of eight children. The family later moved north to Cedarville, New Jersey where he was a resident for seventeen years.

Gary attended Myron L. Powell School in Cedarville and later graduated from Bridgeton High School in 1986. He spent most of his time playing his favorites sports and working on the farms. These activities played a major role in helping develop a good and positive work ethic in him. He attended Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bridgeton, NJ, where his father, the late Rev. Eula C. Mack, was the Senior Pastor. Gary also served as a youth usher, sang on the choir, and attended Bible Study which gave him a solid biblical foundation. After high school, he took up a trade as a Mold Maker Apprentice at Wheaton Glass in Millville NJ, where he worked for 3 ½ years. In 1990, he was employed at National Refrigerants Inc, and is still currently working there 33 ½ years later. The Lord has truly blessed him over the years to be promoted from a labor worker, to lead person, then a Supervisor, and now currently in the position of leadership as the Department Manager of three locations, the Reclaim Department, Cylinder Refurbishment & Hydro-test Department.

Gary has received several honorable awards and achievement certificates inside and outside of the church. In his current place of employment, he has received high level of training that consists of ISO-9000 & In-house Quality Auditing Training, Team Leadership/Communicating for Excellence, Personality Types & Values, Team Building, Problem Solving, The Study of Variations, and Root Cause Analysis Training and many others. He is currently being trained on new courses such as; Power BI (Business Intelligence) & Sustainability and Lean Six Sigma training. And has served as a team leader of several Green Belt projects to help eliminate waste and help create a safer environment to work in. All of these educational tools mentioned have helped him develop into a grateful and humble leader in ministry.

In 1996, he married his sweetheart and friend, Donna Denise (Williams) Mack. She is a devoted and loving wife, a mother, grandmother, and the daughter of Marlene Williams and the late Arthur Williams. She is one of eight siblings, born and raised in Bridgeton NJ. In whom none of these precious gifts or accomplishments would have been possible without having God and his wife on his side. They share together three wonderful children, Latoya, Latasha and Gary Jr. and five adorable grandchildren, Lavar Josiah, LaNeyha, Gianna, Gary III, & NaViah.

Donna has been employed at Wares United Van-line for 18 years, where she serves as an Accounting & Billing Clerk. And is now currently working for Elwyn NJ for 9 years as a Staff Development Specialist. Donna is very active in the church, where she also works alongside her husband. They enjoy teaching and providing spiritual guidance to everyone who desire it. Donna also served in the Usher Ministry, Deaconess Ministry and she supports their children as well, who are very actively involved in ministries at the church.

The Mack Family has been residents in Fairfield Township (Gould town) for 32 years where they enjoy, first of all, being born again, their family, playing, watching sports, movies, traveling, working around the house, and listening to good gospel music & great preaching.

In 1996, his family joined Shiloh Baptist Church in Port Norris/Vineland under the leadership of Senior Pastor, Dr. Rev. James Allen Dunkins, where they have been members for 27 years. He has served as an usher, van driver and sang on the Men’s Choir. In 2000, Gary was ordained as a Deacon where he became the Chairman of the Deacon Board 3½ years later. Gary received his calling to preach the gospel and was licensed as a Minister of the Gospel in 2005. He attended Philadelphia Bible College at U.B.T. in Bridgeton N.J. for several semesters and graduated from Bethany Baptist School of Ordination in Deptford, NJ. In 2009, he was ordained a Minister of Christ. Gary, along with the support of his wife, Donna, served as the Youth Pastor of Shiloh for 3½ years.

He has grown and become a man of influence to the young and old, touching their lives through teaching and preaching the word of God. Gary is the Associate Pastor and overseer of the Ministers & Ministers in Training Ministry, Ushers and Greeters Ministry, along with assisting our senior pastor in our Vineland location where we work together helping “transform lives one at a time.” Our family scripture is: Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” My personal favorite scripture is Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.