John Leslie Brooks is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the seventh child of Ruby Jean Brooks. He is married to Teri Worten Brooks. Sister Brooks, also a Kansas City native, is as a workshop facilitator and founder of Sisters Helping Sisters, Inc., a nonprofit devoted to supporting single mothers. She also blogs at GodsyGirl.Com The couple has two sons, Benjamin and John.
Pastor Brooks received his High School Diploma from Lincoln Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a football scholarship from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, where he obtained his Bachelor's of Science Degree in Sociology and a Minor in Social Work. He is also certified to teach in Kansas City, Missouri. In May 2003. Pastor Brooks graduated from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary earning his Masters of Divinity and has future plans to attend Virginia Union to attain his Doctorate.
After graduating from Lincoln University, Pastor Brooks moved back to Kansas City and procured employment Vice President of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City.
Pastor Brooks was called to the ministry and licensed in August of 1988 under the late Dr. Mac Charles Jones, Pastor at St. Stephens Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He was ordained by Pastor Preston Allen Jr. (currently, Pastor Emeritus) at Macedonia Baptist Church. Pastor John L. Brooks was called to pastor Macedonia Baptist Church on April 19, 1997.
Within the last thirteen years, under the Pastorate of Pastor Brooks, Macedonia has experienced tremendous growth, which our current facility is unable to accommodate. Because of such growth, Pastor Brooks' vision has moved Macedonia Baptist Church into the direction of a new facility, thus creating a building fund which was launched in 1999 based on sacrificial free will giving. December of 2003, Macedonia Baptist Church acquired land at Linwood and Woodland from the Kansas City Missouri School District.
Macedonia will erect a new facility on this land to accommodate the rapid growth, to serve the Greater Kansas City Community and more importantly, "To Lead Men, Women, Boys and Girls to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior."
