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Description: Pastor Dwight’s mission is to reach at-risk youth, young adults, broken families, and most of all un-churched people, throughout the world.
Pastor Dwight Kevin Buckner, Jr, affectionately known on social media as Pastor Dwight, is a proud husband, father, and man of God. Widely known from his appearances on the hit Lifetime reality show, Married at First Sight. Buckner is a relationship advisor and author who is dedicated to inspiring people to believe in themselves and their God given purpose.
Buckner has a long history of time spent in the church and growing under the leadership of other senior pastors. Buckner was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Pastor Dwight Kevin Buckner, Sr. and Angela Buckner. He comes from a Pentacostal background and proudly upholds the family tradition of pastoring and being a servant to the church. Buckner is a seventh generation pastor following the long-lasting legacy of the family in ministry. Buckner realized the call to preach God’s word at 16 years-old.
After confirmation of the call to preach, Buckner enrolled at Beulah Heights Bible College in Atlanta, GA earning his B.A. in Leadership Administration. Buckner later decided to continue his education at the Pentecostal Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee, earning a Master of Divinity degree.
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