Pastor Courtney Goulding was born on the island of Jamaica, W.I. He is the first of six children born to Oswald and Pearl Goulding. He is the product of Adventist Christian education, having attended the Race Course SDA Elementary School, May Pen High School, and West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theology (1980). In 1986, he attended the SDA Theological Seminary at Andrews University, graduating in 1988 with a Master of Divinity degree. He is also a graduate of Drew University (2005), with a Doctor of Ministry degree with an emphasis in Pastoral Care and Counseling. He has completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education(CPE) at the Morristown Medical Center (2021). He works part-time as a trauma chaplain at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.

 

Pastor Goulding has 45 years of ministry experience. He has served as a pastor in the Central Jamaica Conference from 1980-1984, in the parishes of Manchester, St. Mary, and St. Catherine. After migrating to the United States in 1984, he worked with the New York City Department of Finance as a tax assessor and with Adult Protective Services as a caseworker. He also worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor for five and a half years at the St Jude Opioid Treatment Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has served on the Pastoral staff of the Kingsboro Temple SDA Church, Brooklyn, NY (1991- 1993) and was the founding pastor of the Immanuel Tabernacle SDA Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1995, he was called to serve as a full-time pastor in the Northeastern Conference of SDA. He pastored the Spring Valley SDA and Newburgh SDA churches (1995-2000); the Riverdale Ave SDA church in Yonkers NY (2001-2004); the Sharon SDA Church, Bronx NY (2005-2011); the City Tabernacle SDA Church in Harlem NY (2012- 2019; and the LightHouse Tabernacle SDA Church in Brooklyn NY (2019- 2021). He currently pastor’s the Cornerstone SDA Church in Brooklyn. Wherever he has served, the congregations have experienced physical, financial, and spiritual growth. As a result of his leadership, many souls have been won to Christ, the physical plant was improved, and the congregation was left financially stable.