Frederick J. (Jerry) Streets ’75 M.Div.

Frederick J. (Jerry) Streets currently serves as the Senior Pastor of the historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ in New Haven, CT. He also is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Yale Divinity School. Prior to this, he served as Senior Pastor of the Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., from 1975 to 1992, leading the congregation to significant growth, building a new church edifice, and developing many social outreach programs and ministries. 

 

He also served as the Yale University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale from 1992 to 2007, where he established a model of multi-faith campus ministry. He is the editor of the volume Preaching in the New Millennium, published by Yale University Press in 2005 as part of its Yale tercentennial observance.

 

A licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Streets is the former Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor in Pastoral Counseling at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York City, and former Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Work and Latino Community Practice at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford.

 

Some of his current larger involvements include membership on the Association of Theological School (ATS), The Commission on Accrediting. He is a member of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma through, which he assists in the training of mental health professionals across disciplines, religions, and cultures in providing mental health services to those throughout the world who have been traumatized by war and natural disasters.

 

A native of Chicago, he has been nurtured by the American Baptist Convention, Progressive National Baptist Convention, and United Church of Christ denominations. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, and he is the recipient of many awards.