Since July 2021, Pastor Ron has been the Director of Racial Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion for the North Texas Conference and before that he spent 8 years as the District
Superintendent for the North Central District of the North Texas Conference of The United
Methodist Church. He served as the Pastor at St. Paul United Methodist Church here in Dallas before accepting the call to be the Senior Minister first at Hamilton Park UMC and then at Custer Road UMC. Dr. Henderson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Dallas Baptist University here in Dallas (1977), a Master of Divinity from Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta (1980) and a Doctor of Ministry from Perkins School of Theology – Southern Methodist University (1994).

Ron has served on the Board of Directors of the General Board of Global Ministries of UMC from 1988 to1996 and on the Board of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry from 1996 to 2004, and was a Delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Seoul, Korea in 2006, the World Methodist Conference in Durban, South Africa in 2011, the General Conference of the UMC in 1996, 2024, 2012, 2016 and 2019, as well as a Delegate to South Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. Pastor Ron is currently serving as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ron was ordained as a Deacon in the North Texas Conference in 1979 and as an Elder in 1982. He currently lives in Plano with his wife, Saundre’. Ron has 4 adult children and 4 grandchildren.