She has also taught as a part time instructor of World Religions at the Lorain Community College and Women in Scripture classes at Cuyahoga Community College. Current contractual obligation also includes instructor/facilitator at Project Genesis housed in the Antioch Baptist Church, in Cleveland, Ohio.
By JAMES W. WADE III
Staff Reporter
Rev. Gloria Chaney was recently named a Police Chaplain by the Cleveland Police Department. She will carry the rank of Captain. She is the first African-American woman to serve in this capacity.
Chaney‑Robinson is an instructor, as well as a never‑ending student in Christian education. She is an associate licensed and ordained minister as well as youth pastor at the Antioch Baptist Church, in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Rev. Dr. Marvin McMickle is her pastor.
Prior or current administrative province has included Dean of the School of Christian Education, Young Adult Sunday School Teacher, Program Coordinator of Church School, and Director of Vacation Bible School. Her ministry is three‑fold and simply stated: “mobilizing, motivating, and helping to maintain the women and men of God.”
Chaney‑Robinson, a certified teacher and Dean of Christian Instruction has served on the faculty of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education, and the Ohio Baptist State Congress of Christian Education.
She is also a preceptor and prior board member on the Ohio Christian Education Association and is a current member of the National Alliance of Black School Educators. Educational propensity is demonstrated with an Associate of Arts degree from Cuyahoga Community College, the Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies as well as the Master of Arts in Educational Administration, both obtained from Ursuline College.
She is currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Ashland Seminary.
Chaney-Robinson serves as a part time Adjunct Faculty Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department of The Cleveland State University College, where she teaches The Black American Religious Experience and The Religious Ethics of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
She has also taught as a part time instructor of World Religions at the Lorain Community College and Women in Scripture classes at Cuyahoga Community College. Current contractual obligation also includes instructor/facilitator at Project Genesis housed in the Antioch Baptist Church, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Reverend Chaney‑Robinson is the mother of three daughters: Kemberley, Kelley, and Korrey; mother‑in‑love to “sons” Charles, Alan, and Travis; grandmother to Kayla, Kyle, Kamryn, Kennady, Kortney, Kailyn, and Kloe. Her parents were the late Deacon and Mrs. Jesse and Mozelle Chaney of the Zion Hill Missionary B.C., of Cleveland, Ohio.
