MICHAEL
E. HAYNES
CONTINUE THE LEGACY
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YOUTH WORKER.
In 1946, Mike Haynes was hired by John A. Shelburne to direct the Breezy Meadows Camp in Holliston, MA. He became the Youth Director of the Norfolk House Centre in 1957. He created and organized programs for youth, such as night-time basketball tournaments where the likes of Jimmy Walker, Roscoe Baker and the former Mayor of Boston, Ray Flynn could be seen. Mike and Jeep Jones were the first to ogranize college trips to HBCUs from Roxbury.
URBAN
MINISTER.
Reverend Dr. Michael E. Haynes in 1951 began as minister to youth at the Historic Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston. In 1965, he was installed as the 12th Senior Minister of the Twelfth Baptist Church. From this pulpit he was a global advocate for urban ministry, serving on boards such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Daystar University in Kenya, and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. With Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, he helped to establish the Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Roxbury, where the building is named in his honor.
HERALDED
LEADER.
Regarded as "the conscience of Boston" Representative Haynes introduced his friend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to a special joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1965. In wider church circles, Rev. Haynes was a visionary and a bridge-builder between city and suburb, among African-American denominations and the evangelical movement. He was an advisor to four governors, three mayors, two U.S. senators and one president.
