OUR SENIOR PASTOR

Reverend Julian Pridgen

We are pleased to introduce our new Senior Pastor of St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, being transferred to us from the North Carolina Conference, the St. Augustus African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Kinston, North Carolina, The Reverend Julian Pridgen.

“The Black church is the centerpiece of the community for Black people,” said the Rev. Julian Pridgen, pastor of St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church in Durham and graduate of the Duke Divinity School. “In the Black experience, the church is the place where we are cared for. And it’s perceived as the place that dispenses information, a place that can be trusted.” 

In Pridgen’s words: “Stories that we read in Scripture are not there just to be read and enjoyed. They require a response. Jesus heals people. He goes where they are, he works to relieve them of their infirmities, he makes life better for them.”