Aaron Graham serves as the National Field Organizer and Justice Revival Coordinator for Sojourners. Aaron works with individuals, organizations, and churches across the country committed to integrating personal and social change. He is currently spearheading Justice Revivals, which are large three-to-four day gatherings led by Sojourners that focus on issuing the biblical call to both personal conversion and social justice.

Before coming to Sojourners , Aaron started Quincy Street Missional Church (www.quincystreet.org) in a low-income neighborhood of Boston where he served as pastor for five years. As pastor he worked alongside residents of the neighborhood to build a community church dedicated to helping people follow Jesus and reach out to the tangible needs of their neighbors. Aaron and his wife Amy worked to start an active youth ministry, host summer internships for college students, and develop a community living house.

Aaron and Amy were inspired by Jim Wallis and Call to Renewal to join with other Christians in Boston to start the Boston Faith and Justice Network (www.bostonfaithjustice.org) in 2005. This has since grown into a large network of Christians from dozens of churches across the area committed to building a local movement to address poverty through relationships, education, and political advocacy.

Aaron graduated from the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond (2002) and received his Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2007). In 2004, Aaron was ordained to the gospel ministry by Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia.

Aaron grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and spent three years as a missionary kid in Liberia and several months in Kuwait, where he was personally affected by war and poverty. Aaron now lives in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of D.C. with Amy who is also a minister and social worker.

Aaron loves traveling with family, playing basketball, tennis, and watching college hoops. He enjoys hanging out with friends (especially those with a sense of humor that help him not take life too seriously!). His dream is to go on a week long safari in East Africa (or even to live there), but since he and Amy are terrified of snakes they may just settle in DC where all they have to deal with is the occasional rat.

"God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible, what a pity that we plan only the things we can do ourselves." – A.W. Tozer

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