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By Phone (302) 762-9601 By Email cfbc.office.30@gmail.com Office Hours: Tue.-Thurs. 8:30am-4:30pm Friday: 9-12  Location Cornerstone Fellowship Baptist Church 20 West Lea Boulevard Wilmington, DE 19802 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 9264 Wilmington, DE 19809-0264

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Our Pastor

Rev. Dr. Donald E. Dunnigan, Sr.

Rev. Dr. Donald E. Dunnigan, Sr. founded Cornerstone Fellowship Baptist Church in May of 1992. It was his first pastorate. Previously he had served as the Assistant Pastor of the Union Baptist Church.

 

Pastor Dunnigan received his early education in the public schools of Wilmington, DE. He enrolled at the Shaw University in Raleigh, NC in 1981 where he studied music and psychology. He became a licensed minister in 1986 at the Union Baptist Church of Wilmington, DE.  In 1987 he was ordained by the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Association and adjoining states and Rev. Dunnigan served as the Assistant Pastor of Union Baptist Church until 1992. In 1988 he received his B.S. degree in Bible from Philadelphia College of Bible in Langhorne, PA. He completed his Master of Divinity degree from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, PA in May 2002. In December 2007, he earned a Doctorate of Divinity at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Along with pastoring, he recently co-authored a book with Dr. Cecilia B. Dennery named "Key to Dynamic Discipleship - Connecting" (Released April 2018).

 

            Pastor Dunnigan is the son of Dea. Elbert and Sis. Margaret Dunnigan. He has two brothers; Ronald, of Las Vegas, NV and Kenya, of Wilmington, DE. He is married to the former Regina Johnson of Wilmington, DE and they have two sons – Donald, Jr. and Reginald. The family resides in Wilmington, DE.

 

 

   

Associate Minister

Samuel E. Lathem was born in Woodlyn,Pennsylvania. The family moved to Chester, PA and Sam attended the Chester Upland School District. 

In 1965 Sam began work at the Chrysler Plant in Newark, Delaware.He was elected and served two 3-year terms as Chief Steward in the Body Shop at Newark Assembly Plant. He was appointed as Civil Rights Chairman of Local 1183 UAW. He was then assigned the position of Administrator of the UAW-Chrysler Training Center in 1990 and was promoted to an International Rep of the UAW in February 1999. On October 4, 2003 Sam was elected as the first African-American President of Delaware State AFL-CIO, a position he currently holds.

Rev. Lathem was ordained a Baptist Preacher in 1992 at the First Baptist Church of Morton, Pennsylvania by the New Hope Baptist Association. He currently serves as Associate Minister at Cornerstone Fellowship Baptist Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

Rev. Lathem's spiritual integrity and diligence to serve his church and community has earned him the privilege of honored appointments such as the following; by Governor Dale Wolf to serve on Interagency Council on Literacy, by Governor Carper to serve on the Board of Directors for the Diamond State Port Corporation (Port of Wilmington), the Workforce Investment Board. Rev. Lathem also serves as Chairman of Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Vocational Education and appointed by Governor Minner to serve as the first African-American  Delaware Commissioner on the Board of Directors of the Delaware River Bay Authority. Sam serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement, Kids Count Steering Committee, and the 4-H Foundation Committee, the Board of Directors of SURJ (Stand up for What's Right and Just), Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, United Way of Delaware, and serves as a member of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.

 

Rev. Lathem is married to Jean Lathem and has two stepsons and two grandsons.