Rev. Jackson H. Day

Biography

The Rev. Jackson H. Day serves the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) as Consultant for Health Care Advocacy.

Jackson is also pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Hampstead, MD. Before July 2003, he was GBCS’s Program Director, Health and Wholeness.

Jackson was awarded his M. Div from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., in 1967. He is currently in the seminary’s D. Min program on “Faith and the Health of Communities.”

Jackson’s years in health care included service as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Maryland Community Health System and as Vice President, Program Development, for JSA Healthcare Corp.

While at JSA his responsibilities ranged from developing a computerized staffing model for ambulatory care clinics, to directing a cost-benefit analysis of a major employer-sponsored family planning program in India.

In 1987 Jackson received his Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. His past pastoral service in the Baltimore-Washington Conference includes both rural and urban settings. He was an Army Chaplain in Vietnam in 1968-69.

Program Area

Health and Wholeness

Health in its fullest and most complete sense is Wholeness. The Bible expresses this Wholeness with the word "Shalom," which encompasses every facet of health, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, both of the individual and of the community.

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