FACULTY PROFILE

Franklin Delano Vaughn is a native Detroiter, born in the Brewster projects, raised on the eastside of Detroit. He is a graduate of the first class of Renaissance High School. From there he entered military service, joining the Navy. Upon leaving his Naval career and after a short stint as a technician with a military contractor, he returned to Detroit. 

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Upon his return he started a career in the United States Postal Service delivering mail in the city of Detroit. Having grown up in the church, Greater Mt. Carmel pastored by the late J.D. Montgomery, he returned to the church. His ministry began at New Covenant Baptist church under the leadership of Pastor Brian Ellison. After several years of serving as Deacon, worship leader, pulpit minister, Sunday school teacher and multiple other ministries he began his educational career.

 

After a few years of attending Wayne State University, in 2007 he enrolled in the Diploma of Practical ministry at Ashland Theological Seminary, a two-year program that he finished in one year. He continued his academic studies by accepting the invitation to apply to the Master of Divinity program at Ashland, graduating in 2018. In 2018, he applied and was accepted to the Doctor of Ministry program at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, graduating in 2021. His dissertation; The attachment theory; its use and implications in pastoral counseling.

 

Dr. Vaughn is blessed to be supported by his wife of 21 years Cynthia, my parents,four children, six grandchildren, his pastor Rev. Dr. Edward Knox and the congregation of his current church home New Mt. Vernon Baptist church of Detroit. Where he serves as associate Pastor and Sunday school superintendent. He is a member of Phi Delta Psi fraternity and a 2017 Princeton Fellow of the Black Theology leadership Institute.

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Currently Dr. Vaughn works for Gift of Life Michigan, an Organ procurement organization, ministering to those families involved in Organ donation. He believes firmly that one should do all things as if unto Christ.