The Reverend J. Michael Little, a gifted orator, preacher and teacher, was called to the gospel ministry at the age of nineteen. He has served as a Pastor for over seventeen years at churches in New Jersey, Virginia, and here in Washington, DC, as the esteemed Pastor of Friendship Baptist.

Seeking to follow in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr., Pastor Little attended Morehouse College, where he graduated with honors. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Union University, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University. Pastor Little also studied theology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

Pastor Little envisions a church that engages the world in a spirit of hope and renewal. He is passionate about “community building”, i.e., finding ways in which people can relate lovingly together and seek each other’s mutual benefit. “My vision”, he says, “is of a Church, which, with the aid of the Spirit of Christ, focuses with unyielding intensity upon bringing healing to the brokenness of our humanity.” For him, our love of Christ is seen most clearly in our behaving lovingly toward each other.