Joseph Tkach, Jr.

Who was Joseph Tkach, Jr.?

Joseph Tkach, Jr. is president and pastor general of Grace Communion International, an evangelical Christian denomination based in Glendora, Calif. Since assuming his responsibilities in 1995, Tkach has overseen a period of radical change in the WCG that began during the administration of his father, Joseph W. Tkach. Once a strict seventh-day Sabbatarian organization that denied the Trinity, required observance of Old Testament law and adhered to Anglo-Israelism, the church has abandoned those and other teachings in favor of a doctrine of salvation by grace through faith.