The 2023 Orders & Fellowship was October 23-25 at the Younes Center North, Kearney, NE. The theme for this year was “Resolve to Love” and allowed reflection on our collegial relationships. Rev. Dr. Stacey Cole Wilson, executive minister of Beloved Community in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, served as our plenary speaker.
Stacey Cole Wilson is the Executive Minister of Beloved Community for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church. 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 the Conference Staff, Dr. Wilson served as 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 on the Board of Governors for Wesley Theological Seminary, serves on the Prophetic Council of the Poor People’s Campaign, is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a founding member and chaplain of the Female Clergy Support Group of Maryland 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 via Mass Spectrometry, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD).
She has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary with an emphasis on Collaborative Community-Church Partnerships. She is a distinguished Foundations of Church Leadership Duke Divinity Fellow, Lewis Fellow, Lewis Community Leaders Fellow, Transition in Ministry (TiM) Excellence Fellow, and completed 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.