Rev. Dr. Peter M. Wherry is a 43-year veteran pastor, community leader, social activist and scholar. Since January of 2007, he has been Senior Pastor of the Mayfield Memorial Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC.

Through his work as Founding Moderator of the United Missionary Baptist Association, Dr. Wherry provided leadership in Charlotte and its surrounding counties to 70 churches, mostly Baptist, having a constituency of over 40,000 persons. He is one of the pioneer foot soldiers of the Forward Together Moral Movement under the leadership of Rev. Dr. William Barber, having been among the first two groups of people who submitted themselves for arrest while petitioning the North Carolina General Assembly for economic and social justice, including the fight against voter suppression.

He has served as guest lecturer and featured preacher in several seminaries, including Gordon Conwell in Charlotte, NC, Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, NC, Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA, where he also served as an adjunct faculty member teaching Baptist History, and the Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, NC, where he has served as a doctoral advisor. In 2014, Dr. Wherry was a Main Stage preacher for the centennial session of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the largest gathering of African American clergy in the world. Dr. Wherry has preached from coast to coast in the U.S., and internationally in Greece, Haiti, El Salvador, South Africa, Burundi, and Zambia.

Dr. Wherry is the author of a number of published works as well as other articles and scholarly papers. He collaborated with Dr. Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. (Union Presbyterian Seminary, Charlotte, NC) and Dr. William Turner (Duke University) in writing "The Forward Together Lectionary" (Attribution, p.3) for the NCNAACP. It is a unique resource to assist preachers in the task of incorporating Social Justice into the pulpit ministries of houses of faith. His latest book, published by Judson Press, is entitled Preaching Funerals in the Black Church: Bringing Perspective to Pain, (available through Judson Press, Amazon, Amazon UK, and other online outlets).

Dr. Wherry has been happily married for 41 years to Dr. Wanda H. Wherry. The Wherrys are the grateful parents of two adult children Justin (Amy) and Bethany, and the excited grandparents of three (Amari, Amaya and Michael).