The Philadelphia Baptist Association (PBA) is staffed by a dedicated team that is committed to serving and holding in trust the congregations, missions and ministries that make up this region of the American Baptist Churches USA.
The Rev. Dr. Quintin L. Robertson (known as Pastor Q to his congregants & Dr. Q to his students) has served in the academy and church for over thirty years in the Atlanta and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. He has intentionally served in interim pastoral ministry serving four member churches of the Philadelphia Baptist Association over the last 12 years: Grace Baptist Church of Germantown, the historic First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, First Baptist Church of Levittown-Fairless Hills, and Central Baptist Church of Wayne. He has also served as a supply minister for Holmesburg Baptist Church, Reformation Lutheran Church, and Woodcrest United Church of Christ all in Philadelphia. He is an Associate Minster at the Monumental Baptist Church and serves on the faculty at United Lutheran Seminary directing the Urban Theological Institute and Black Church Studies.
On January 2, 2026, Dr. Q began his role as the Regional Executive Minister of the Philadelphia Baptist Association (PBA), the oldest continuing communities of Baptist congregations in the United States of America. His vision is to strengthen the association and reach the next generation.
Pastor Q’s ministry is ecumenical and intercultural, having served diverse congregations with members from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. He has preached and lectured at many churches across denominational lines in North America and Asia and has preached and lectured at more than thirty colleges, universities, and seminaries. He has facilitated workshops and classes on Leadership, Preaching, Church History and Theology. During his time in Atlanta, he led a weekly Bible Study with students at Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University.
Quintin is a native of Newark, NJ where he was raised at the Greater Harvest Baptist Church. He earned his DMIN degree and MDIV degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center, his MBA degree from Clark Atlanta University and his BBA degree from Howard University. He participated in the Summer Venture in Management Program at Harvard Business School between his Junior and Senior years at Howard University. He has been inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College and is a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Since the beginning of his ministry, he has been a mentor to many and has found himself providing safe space for students, ministers, and laity as they seek advice and counseling. He exemplifies through his ministry that “every day is a new beginning,” and that God’s “grace is sufficient.” Quintin is a foodie and history buff. He often posts pictures of his meals on social media and enjoys reading and watching historical and biographical documentaries and fictional historical books and movies.
Rev. Dr. Jill Bradway began on June 1, 2023 serving as the Associate Regional Executive Minister for Congregational Continuous Learning.
She is a native of Philadelphia, PA. She received her primary education in both the public and private school systems. She attended Temple University, studying Business Law and Human Resource Management. Dr. Bradway is a 2-time graduate of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity, Rochester, NY earning the M.Div. in Theology and Preaching in 2006, and the D. Min in Transformative Leadership in 2011. She believes her doctoral dissertation: African American Women and the Imago Dei: Reclaiming God’s Vision of Wholeness, is more relevant today than when she wrote it and continues to look for ways to share it.
Dr. Bradway spent 13 years as a University Chaplain at the Rochester Institute of Technology and served as Interim Pastor for 3 churches in Upstate New York before going to Alaska. Dr. Bradway was the Senior Pastor of First American Baptist Church, Anchorage, Alaska for 3 years. She was the first African American woman to be Senior Pastor of a Baptist Church in Anchorage. And she was the first woman elected President of the Alaska Baptist Churches & Institutions State Convention and served for 1 term before returning to the lower 48 due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic.
From 2021 to the first part of 2022, Dr. Bradway worked remotely as Lead Content Development & Research Specialist for Redhouse Performance Consulting, LLC, a DEI (diversity-equity-inclusion) firm that provides strategy, leadership engagement, policy and program development, internal training, recruiting, and other DEI related projects for large, global organizations focused on building vibrant and tolerant societies through the advancement of justice, education, public health, and independent media.
From April 2022 to May 2023, she has served as the Interim Pastor with the Silverside Church in Wilmington, DE.
Dr. Bradway has two adult daughters with whom she shares a close, loving relationship.
Rev. Julia Bruton-Sheppard 
On November 1, 2016, Rev. Julia Bruton-Sheppard began as Program Facilitator for Communication and Leader Development. Currently, this part time commitment provides support for the Intergenerational Clergy Small Group Initiative of the PBA Minister’s Council. There are four groups gathering monthly. Rev. Bruton-Sheppard supervises the work of the consultants assisting in the facilitation of the groups. Her life verse is Psalm 27:4, “I’m asking God for one thing, only one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I’ll contemplate his beauty; I’ll study at his feet.” Peterson’s The Message Rev. Bruton-Sheppard, in her first career as a nurse, she found her most rewarding experience in the field of Hospice Home Care. During those 14 years God presented me with many life-lessons caring for those at the end of life. God blessed me to become a wife. She is the proud mother of 1 daughter and 3 sons. She is also the grandmother of 4 granddaughters and 2 grandsons, and a great-grand mother of a beautiful girl. In 1989 Rev. Bruton-Sheppard was licensed to preach, ordained in 1993 and presently hold the position of Associate Minister at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church where Rev. Dr. Donald D. Moore is Pastor. Her formal education includes a BA degree in Jewish Studies at Gratz College in Melrose Park, PA; She went on to a Master of Divinity Degree at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Blue Bell, PA. She is a practicing Spiritual Director. By nature she is an introvert by nature and treasure quiet time. However, what brings her out of solitude is a call to help the disenfranchised and the most vulnerable. You may find her helping someone more senior than herself or joining programs that provide vital support for them. Julia is an avid traveler; she has seen many marvels in God’s world through the lens of a camera. Those images have created memories to last the rest of her life. She states, “I seek your prayers as I begin this new position as Program Facilitator for Communication and Leader Development for PBA. Because of them, I look forward to how God will continue to answer my prayer posed in Psalm 27:4.”
Ms. Janet Reedy began her ministry with the PBA in February 1990. She currently serves as the Office Manager. Over the years, while serving as an Administrative Assistant, she has been responsible for many portfolios including Regional Outreach, Local Church Ministries, Discipleship and World Mission Support. Part of her duties includes event planning, such as the Annual Meeting and the annual Mission Banquet. She also is responsible for mission receipts and distribution, record keeping, statistical data and reports and providing support for the Finance Office. Janet is a graduate of Gordon College and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer Seminary), with a Masters of Arts in Religion.
Ms. Shayla McJunkin has served as a social media consultant since September 2021. She has assisted the PBA in creating a research report about the importance of social media engagement for the organization and is relaunching the PBA’s Facebook account to keep our churches connected with each other and with their communities. Shayla earned two bachelor of arts degrees in Psychology and Music Performance from Simmons University in May of 2021, and is currently in Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology.