Profiles of RGEM International Leadership

 The Rev. Dr. Gide Demosthene is Founder of RGEM International and its subsidiaries: Redeeming Grace Christian Fellowship, the Theological Institute for Ministerial Education, and The Technical Occupational Learning Center, Brockton, MA. He is an Ordained Minister with ABCUSA/TABCOM, and is a member of the Ministers Council of the American Baptist Churches USA; and The Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc.  Dr. Démosthène is an alumnus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,  graduated with a Master of Divinity Degree, 2006, and Doctor of Ministry, 2009. His research track was in Ministry in Complex Urban Settings, and his doctoral thesis was:  Towards a Family-Structured Church System and Ministry: Developing Effective Redemptive Church Ministries for Broken and Dysfunctional Families. His most recent publication is an Autobiography:  God's Footprints in Personal Life, Family Life, and Ministry: When God Shapes, Molds, and Equips Us for Ministry, 2024, published by Christian Faith Publishing. 

Dr. Demosthene previously worked at Gordon-Conwell's Boston campus as Registrar and Enrollment Management Coordinator for nearly sixteen years,  and served as an Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology.  In ministry, he has served for about 20 years, in many church positions, in Boston, MA.  He also served as an Interim Pulpit Supply Minister at First Baptist Church of Brockton, MA., and  currently, he is Founding Senior Pastor at Redeeming Grace Christian Fellowship for over ten years, a church plant ministry he started  in Brockton, MA in the year 2013.  His pastoral leadership ministry extends for over 33 years.  

in April 2020, after his departure from his position at Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Demosthene worked toward the development of the Theological Institute for Ministerial Education (TIME), and served as its president and CEO.  Dr. Demosthene is married to his beloved wife, Andrelyn, and has four children:  Priscille, Kenneth, Hallenah, and Abigail.  With a deep committed love for God, family, Christ's Church and coming kingdom, He labors confidently alongside other ministers of the Gospel to make Christ known in the fullness of His power in the fellowship of the saints and in actual family-life.  

"The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him; my father's God, and I will extol Him.  The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is His name. (Exodus 15:2-3)