Reverend Fleming is a native of Richmond, VA and theeldest of five children. He is married to Danette W. Fleming, of Petersburg, VA and together they are the parents of fivebeautiful children: Tracey, Taylor, Malcom, Matthew, and Mark. From those five beautiful children, they are the loving grandparents of seven remarkable grandkids: Damahje, Shonn, Kennedy, Mya, Asa, Tracey Jr.(TJ), and Ta’Layah. Two fur babies, Jon Snow and Handsome the Terrible.

Reverend Fleming was called to the Gospel Ministry in 2002, while a member of First Union Baptist Church. He was subsequently ordained as the Youth Minister and served faithfully from 2005 until 2007. In June of 2007, he was Called to Pastor the Emmaus Baptist Church in Goochland VA. Reverend Fleming served with the wonderful people at Emmaus for 14 years, until January of 2022.

On February 1, 2022, Reverend Fleming began his Pastorate at First Union Baptist Church, as the 17th Pastor in the Church’s 147-year history as an Institution of God’s grace and His will.

Reverend Fleming is a product of the Richmond Public School system, graduating in the very first class of
Richmond Community High School in 1981. He has furthered his education at Virginia Union University, Virginia State University, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University.

Before his Call into the ministry, Reverend Fleming worked as a radio announcer in the Richmond and Petersburg areas from 1990 until 2002, working on such stations as WPLZ Magic 99FM, KISS 104.7, Smooth Jazz 101.1 and Smooth Jazz 93.1.

Rev. Fleming joyfully proclaims that God does His most extraordinary work using the ordinary lives of the most imperfect people to accomplish His perfect will. He relishes every opportunity to minister to God’s people through preaching or simply through presence, bearing always in mind the words of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 2:3 “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than themselves.