Reverend Dr. James K. Baker is the founder and pastor of the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia. He is also an executive board member, charter member and coordinator of the Disaster and Rapid Response Ministry of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Inc. He is the founder and director of Concerned Clergymen, as well as the Faith Outreach Coordinator for Congressman Sanford Bishop. Reverend Baker is a member of the Board of Directors of Middle Georgia and State of Georgia Coalition to End Homelessness, and a member of the board of directors for the East Macon Arts Alliance Commission. He attended Beulah Heights Bible College of Atlanta, Georgia, the National Institute of Technology of Atlanta, Georgia and Emanuel Bible College.