SUPERINTENDENT JAY ALLEN GOODING SR. is the fourth and youngest child of Bishop Ceacer and Co-Pastor, Josephine Gooding. He was born in New York City on October 9, 1961. Pastor Gooding was raised in the Bronx, New York, and attended Public Schools there. He is a graduate of DeWitt Clinton H.S., and holds a Bachelor of Theology degree from Lighthouse Christian College. He is married to Nicole Stacey Ann Gooding and is the father of four children, Latiesha, (deceased) Jay Jr., Vaughn, and Jayme; and grand father of eight, Jahvon, Jay III, Jordane, Jayson, Princeton, Jayce, Jayden and Jaylin.
At the tender age of 5, Superintendent Gooding began playing the organ, under the tutelage of Dr. Becky Carlton. He became the organist of Miracle Revival Temple in the Bronx, NY under the pastorate of his father at the age of 11 years old. From 1984-1987 he was a member of the Award Winning Gospel Record ing Artist, “The Ecstatistics”. His music ministry inspired him to start a commu nity choir, “Jay Gooding and Fellowship” in 1991. They have recorded five albums including “No Stopping Us Now – The Remix Project” (#1 single – 3 consecutive weeks on the Top Ten Countdown on WTHE). Their latest release in 2002 was “Nobody Can Do Me Like Jesus” (which had two songs in the Top Ten Countdown for over six weeks) and was submitted for Grammy Nomination.
Superintendent Gooding was called to the Word Ministry and preached his initial sermon on November 19, 1993 at Miracle Revival Temple and on December 29, 1996, Pastor Gooding answered the call of the Lord and established the Fellowship Tabernacle Ministries Church of God in Christ, that was located in the northeastern section of the Bronx, NY. On February 15, 2009 Superintendent Gooding was appointed to serve as Pastor at Miracle Revival Temple by his father, the late Bishop Ceacer Gooding. Fellowship Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C., and Miracle Revival Temple were recognized as “One Church in Two Locations”
Miracle Revival Temple partnered with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and the New York Police Department, when it participated as one of the six sites for the initial “Bronx Gun Buy Back” in 2009 and in 2016, Fellowship Tabernacle hosted another “Bronx Gun Buy Back” where 99 guns were surrendered.
In January 2003, Superintendent Gooding and the Fellowship Family joined the Church of God in Christ, First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Eastern New York, under the leadership of the late Prelate, Bishop James Gaylord, where Bishop John Drew Sheard serves as the International Presiding Bishop. In July of 2004 Superintendent Gooding was appointed by Bishop James Gaylord to succeed the late Bishop William J. Robinson as Superintendent of the Glorified Bronx District, which he renamed to the “Bishop William J. Robinson Memorial District”.
As a Superintendent in the Church of God in Christ, Pastor Gooding oversees two churches in Bronx County, The Garden of Prayer Cathedral COGIC and as of September 1, 2024, the newly combined Miracle Revival Fellowship Tabernacle COGIC, where he is the pastor. Supt. Gooding currently serves as the Chairman of Eastern New York’s “Urban and Civic Affairs Department” for First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Eastern New York Church of God in Christ.
He is committed to God first, and has a genuine and sincere concern for people and the communities.
Matthew 21:22, And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall receive.
