OUR PASTOR

Pastor Chantay Love - Mason, Co-Founder and President of EMIR Healing Center is an innovative leader healing communities one family at a time. Chantay was raised in the Abbotsford Projects where most of her exposure to violence occurred. She is a survivor of incest and witness to domestic
violence. On March 26, 1997, Chantay’s only brother Emir Peter Greene was shot seven times in the back. The trauma from her loss, and exposure to violence became Chantay’s blueprint for her tireless work to save her city. EMIR Healing Center with the visions of Chantay, has created models for schools, families, and communities to support them with their healing and to uncover their trauma with the goal to break the cycle of future violence.
Chantay has a master’s in human services administration from Lincoln
University. She is a Certified Crisis Response and Restorative Justice
Trainer. She is a Christ Servant Minister for Eastern Pennsylvania
Conference of United Methodist Church. Chantay is appointed to the
Governor Homicide Review Team and Advisory Commission on African
American Affairs. EMIR Healing Center’s three publications, EMIR
Healing Center Curriculum on Trauma Informed Healing, Trauma
Informed Policing, and Walk In My Shoes have been registered with the
United States Copyright Office. She is also the Coordinator of the
Philadelphia Caucus of the Black Methodists for Church Renewal
(BMCR). Chantay is married to her best friend, Chuck.