In further preparing for ministerial service, Dr. Siler is a graduate of the Billy Graham Advanced School of Evangelism, is a PAIIRS, Marriage and Relationship Educator, a graduate of the Wake Forest University Church Management Institute and a graduate of the Harvard University School of Divinity Leadership Institute.  He has continued his theological education at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia and Ashland University’s Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio.

Celebrating more than thirty years of ministry, Reverend Siler has served as Pastor of the First Shiloh Baptist Church, Mechanicsville, Virginia for the past nineteen years. With an emphasis on Special Ministries to Youth, Children, Young Adults, Singles, Married Couples and Senior Adults, First Shiloh has become a thriving Congregation of total church ministry that reaches the whole man, body, soul and spirit.

Dr. Siler is also the Executive Director of New Life Ministries of Virginia, Inc., and the president of the Center for New Life School of Continuing Ministry. New Life Ministries is an organization dedicated to strengthening church and family life, providing Marriage, Family and Individual Counseling; Budgeting and Financial Management as well as conducting Family Life Seminars, Conferences and Retreats across the country.

Dr. Siler is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Virginia; The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; Past Moderator of the Chickahominy Baptist Association; Member, Board of Directors of First Things First, Marriage Builders Alliance of Richmond; Past member of the Board of Directors for Meals on Wheels of Greater Richmond; a member of the NAACP and a Charter member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

Reverend Siler resides in Mechanicsville, Virginia with his wife and help mate of twenty-nine years, the former Sharon Ezell, who works closely with him in ministry. The Silers have two married adult children, Jonathan and Kirsten and one granddaughter, Janae, 1 year old. 

EDUCATION 

2009 - D.Min. Formational Counseling and Pastoral Care, Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland University, Ashland, OH

1984 - Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Southwestern University, Tucson, AZ

1980 - MTS, Theology & Counseling, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH

1976 - BA, Sociology & Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CONTINUING EDUCATION

2005 - Harvard University Divinity School of Leadership, Boston, MA

2004 - PAIIRS Marriage and Relationship Education  Certification, Houston, TX

1997 - Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Advanced Evangelism Training Certification

1995 - Prepare Enrich Marriage Education Training Certification, Richmond, VA

1992 - Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Evangelism Training, Toronto, Ontario

1991 - Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, Certificate in Church Mgmt

1986 - Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, New York, NY, Certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Rational Emotive Therapy)

1978 - Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH, Certification, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)

PASTORAL & CHURCH MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

1987 - Present, Senior Pastor, First Shiloh Baptist Church , Mechanicsville , VA

1985 - 1987, Assistant Pastor, Mosby Memorial Baptist Church , Richmond , VA

1981 - 1985, Pastor, First Baptist Church , Clifton Forge, VA

1979 - 1981, Pastor, Green Temple Fellowship Church , Salem , VA

1976 - Ordained to the Gospel Ministry, Deep River Missionary Baptist Association, Sanford , NC

1976 - 1979, Pastoral Internship, Shiloh Baptist Church , Columbus , OH

1975 - Licensed to Preach the Gospel Ministry, Sixth Avenue First Baptist Church , Siler City , NC