The Reverend Eugene M. Boger, former senior pastor of Poplar Spring United Methodist Church in Atlanta and student assistant at Centenary UMC in Atlanta, is the new senior pastor of Rivertown United Methodist Church in Fairburn. Boger is the youngest pastor ever assigned to the church in its 119-year history.

Born in the ‘70s in Los Angeles, Calif., Boger was an honor student educated in the Los Angeles Unified School District and was graduated from Downtown Business Magnet High School.

Raised by his great-grandmother, Mrs. Frances B. Jones, in the gang and drug-infested streets of South Central Los Angeles, Boger became a product of the church, and not his environment.

While attendingMorehouse College in Atlanta, Boger was introduced to the life and works of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays. Boger says this exposure produced his life’s philosophy, “Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living, dead or yet born can do better.” Additionally, he was involved in the campus tour program (S.T.R.I.P.E.S), the campus newspaper (The Maroon Tiger), and the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel Assistants.

Boger holds memberships in the NAACP, Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta, Black Methodist for Church Renewal, The Wilderness Society, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and is the grand chaplain for the Mount Moriah Grand Lodge of Atlanta, Scottish Rite Masonry.

Boger is a student local pastor in the process towards becoming an elder in the United Methodist Church. He recently completed the “New Church Leadership Academy” sponsored by the Board of Church Development of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, and is pursuing full time enrollment towards a master’s of divinity at Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

He is the father of two children, Amari Eugene Boger, and Erynn Morgan Boger.

Rivertown UMC is at 9325 Rivertown Rd., Fairburn.

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