Robert Eric Hayes Jr. is a member and serves as Bishop Emeritus of the Global Methodist Church.
At its May 22, 2023, weekly meeting, The Global Methodist Church's Transitional Leadership Council (TLC) received the Rev.
Dr. Robert Hayes Jr. as a clergy member in the new denomination and then immediately voted to confer upon him the title bishop emeritus.
(1994–2001), was secretary of the Wesley House Community Center (1990–98), and served on the board of directors of the Houston Ebony Opera Guild (1986–94) and of the Methodist Home, Waco, Texas (1994–2000).
He chaired the Legislative Committee on Faith and Order at the General Conference of the U.M.C., Cleveland, Ohio, (2000).
He was the first to be elected of four new bishops by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference meeting in Corpus Christi in 2004.
[3][4] Bishop Hayes serves on the Board of Trustees of Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky).