Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Stacey Cole Wilson
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Rev. Dr. Stacey Cole Wilson is the Senior Pastor at First UMC Hyattsville Church in Hyattsville, MD. She is a wife, mother, ordained minister, igniter of social change, and a champion for human rights. She received a call into ministry as a youth and is a believer that the greatest gift of God is unconditional love.
Before joining First UMC Hyattsville, Dr, Wilson served as Executive Minister of Beloved Community for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church., the Lead Pastor of Good Hope Union UMC in Silver Spring, MD (2012-2016), the Pastor of Mount Winans United Methodist Church in Baltimore (2007-2012), and as the Associate Pastor of Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church in Linthicum, Maryland (2003-2007).
As a writer and minister, she has received national acclaim for her prayers and litanies published in the award-winning Africana Worship Book; and, she has been honored to receive and share the Word of God nationally and internationally for the glory of God and upbuilding of the nations.
She has served as Wesley Theological Seminary’s Commencement Preacher/Speaker at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Princeton University Chapel’s Guest Preacher for their Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Recommitment, and United Theological Seminary’s Distinguished Doctoral Alum of the Year.
As an ardent believer in education and community service, Dr. Wilson serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors for Wesley Theological Seminary, a board member of the Maryland Governor’s Interfaith Council, board member of the International Christian Rescue Mission, NEJ Committee on Native American Ministries, and as a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) among many other committees, boards and agencies.
Stacey earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Morgan State University and has worked professionally as a Senior Analytical Chemist specializing in Petroleum and Materials Characterization.
She has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary with an emphasis on Collaborative Community-Church Partnerships and a certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School. She is a distinguished Foundations of Church Leadership Duke Divinity Fellow, Lewis Fellow, Lewis Community Leaders Fellow, Transition in Ministry (TiM) Excellence Fellow, and was a participant in The Joseph Engle Preaching Roundtable (3 Yr. Program) at Princeton Theological Seminary in NJ.
She is the daughter of Gary and the late Pearl Cole; wife of International Music Producer and Pastor Wayne Wilson; and mother of two great joys in her life, Ava, and Christian Wilson.
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” – Congressman John Lewis
Before joining First UMC Hyattsville, Dr, Wilson served as Executive Minister of Beloved Community for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church., the Lead Pastor of Good Hope Union UMC in Silver Spring, MD (2012-2016), the Pastor of Mount Winans United Methodist Church in Baltimore (2007-2012), and as the Associate Pastor of Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church in Linthicum, Maryland (2003-2007).
As a writer and minister, she has received national acclaim for her prayers and litanies published in the award-winning Africana Worship Book; and, she has been honored to receive and share the Word of God nationally and internationally for the glory of God and upbuilding of the nations.
She has served as Wesley Theological Seminary’s Commencement Preacher/Speaker at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Princeton University Chapel’s Guest Preacher for their Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Recommitment, and United Theological Seminary’s Distinguished Doctoral Alum of the Year.
As an ardent believer in education and community service, Dr. Wilson serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors for Wesley Theological Seminary, a board member of the Maryland Governor’s Interfaith Council, board member of the International Christian Rescue Mission, NEJ Committee on Native American Ministries, and as a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) among many other committees, boards and agencies.
Stacey earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Morgan State University and has worked professionally as a Senior Analytical Chemist specializing in Petroleum and Materials Characterization.
She has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary with an emphasis on Collaborative Community-Church Partnerships and a certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School. She is a distinguished Foundations of Church Leadership Duke Divinity Fellow, Lewis Fellow, Lewis Community Leaders Fellow, Transition in Ministry (TiM) Excellence Fellow, and was a participant in The Joseph Engle Preaching Roundtable (3 Yr. Program) at Princeton Theological Seminary in NJ.
She is the daughter of Gary and the late Pearl Cole; wife of International Music Producer and Pastor Wayne Wilson; and mother of two great joys in her life, Ava, and Christian Wilson.
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” – Congressman John Lewis