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Mouzon Biggs Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012

Our community is better place because Mouzon Biggs Jr. did not become a chemical engineer.

There is no doubt that if he had gone in that direction he would have been hugely successful. However, in his own words, “…God wanted me to do something different – to be a United Methodist minister.”

The Rev. Dr. Mouzon Biggs, Jr.

has been senior minister at Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, an iconic edifice located immediately south of downtown Tulsa, since August 1980. During his tenure, the church has added more than 8,000 new members. Its endowment has grown from $200,000 to $26 million, and his weekly Sunday television broadcast at 11 a.m.

on Tulsa’s ABC-affiliate is the most watched program in its time slot.

In a short, biographical essay, My Call to Ministry Unmistakable, Biggs wrote, “I have been under appointment of a bishop, preaching every seventh day since I was 18 years old.