As the redeemed people of God, our mission is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed.

 

The anvil is and an expression of our long history and faith. Mother Bethel, the first AME Church was established in 1794 in a blacksmith shop purchased by our founder Richard Allen, in Philadelphia, PA. The external shape of St. Mark’s edifice is expressive of an anvil. Replicas of the anvil are also set in each stained-glass window.

 

The Reverend Joy L. Gallmon

Pastor of St. Mark AME Church, Milwaukee, WI

Chair of the Fellowship of Church Educators of the

African Methodist Episcopal Church

 

 

The Reverend Joy L. Gallmon, fondly known as “Pastor Joy,” is the pastor and is a native of Ft. Pierce, Florida. She is the daughter of Jacob and Earline Gallmon and the proud mother of two, David Jacob and Janis Annette. Pastor Joy is a graduate of Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Educational Ministries degree at Columbia Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Responding to the divine call to preach the gospel, Pastor Joy delivered her initial sermon in April 1999 at Greater Bethel AME Church, Miami, Florida and was ordained an itinerant elder in 2003.

 

Prior to her appointment to St. Mark AME Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pastor Joy served New Mount Pisgah AME Church, Lake City, Florida for seven years, St. Paul AME Church, Ocala, Florida for five years and Allen Temple AME Church, Brooksville, Florida for two years.

 

Pastor Joy remains forever committed to serving God, the Church Universal, and the community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lord Loves a Cheerful Giver