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Remembering Roland Gordon, Ingleside Presbyterian Church’s Leader Since 1978

The faith leader and founder of Ingleside Community Center spent decades on an expansive mural-collage and seeking ways to engage young people.

By Alex Mullaney
Man points to a picture on a collage.
Rev. Roland Gordon, known as Rev. G to friends, shows a piece of the expansive Great Cloud of Witnesses collage-mural in 2014. | Ray Rudolph/Ingleside Light
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Ingleside Presbyterian Church leader, artist behind an expansive mural-collage and Ingleside Community Center founder Rev. Roland Gordon has died.

Rev. G, as Gordon was called by generations of community members, was hospitalized a few weeks ago. He was 82.

Through pastoring his Ocean Avenue church, Gordon provided countless acts of community service, including organizing local clean-ups, holding food banks and hosting youth and senior programs. One of his most lasting, at least for Mike Allen, may be opening the Ingleside Community Center in 1986.

“His main concern was making sure that this program in the community center continues to do what it was set out to do,” said Allen, who’s worked at the center since 2007. “His main concern was just having somewhere safe for kids to be and to come to.”

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