Nicole McDonald

SENIOR PASTOR (INTERIM) | CONTACT

The Reverend Dr. Nicole McDonald serves as the Interim Senior Minister of Central Christian Church. Over the past 20 years, Dr. McDonald has served diverse ministerial contexts as a lay leader and ordained clergy in Baptist and Disciples congregations. Trained in chaplaincy, she worked as a hospice chaplain, bereavement coordinator, and pediatric intensive care unit staff chaplain. Most recently, Dr. McDonald made history by being the first student to successfully defend her dissertation for the PhD in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. Pastor Nicole has a heart for God’s people. As a queer, womanist practitioner-scholar, she strives to build communities of radical inclusivity where all feel welcomed.