Our Pastor

Reverend Vanessa M. Wilson, J.D. 

Speaking with a prophetic voice, Pastor Wilson is a Holy Spirit led communicator; she possesses the gifts of leadership, teaching, exhortation and administration. She is committed to providing collaborative ministry solutions to vulnerable populations. She currently serves the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference as Chair of the Commission on Religion and Race. The Commission on Religion and Race convenes The Conversation About Race, providing the opportunity for clergy and laity to gain support, information, and education. Pastor Wilson engages in legislative advocacy and is an active Mental Health First Aid Trainer. She also an advocate for women and children and serves as an Ambassador for the Healthy Family Healthy Planet Program. Her area of scholarship in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and she has five ministry interests:

1. Intercultural Understanding;
2. Health/Mental Health/Trauma;
3. Africana Spirituality;
4. Access and equity for women and girls;  and
​5. The intersection of Race, Religion and Law.

Pastor Wilson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University,  a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers  University Law School and a Masters in Divinity Drew Theological School. She is the mother of two wonderful sons. She is firmly committed to scholarship, stewardship and teamwork. 

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Healing Communities Trainers from the General Board of Church and Society, the Greater New Jersey and the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conferences

Leadership Team

Lay Member to Annual Conference -  Janice Fulmer
Lay Leader -  Joy Haines
Church Council Chair -  Faith Parrott
Finance Chair -  Steve Lynch
Treasurer - Siobhan  Thompson
Music Director - Joy Haines
Financial Secretary -  Charles Parrott
Membership Secretary  -  Siobhan Thompson
Trustee Chair -  Charles Parrott
Ministry with Young People - DJ Piper

Lay Servants

Joy Haines
Charles Parrott
Aaron Wilson Watson

Ministry Candidates

​Anson Watson Wilson

Congratulations to
​Rev. Sheena M. Cameron

Congratulations and prayers to Pastor Sheena who was appointed as pastor at ​Siloam UMC in Freehold. 

Unity of the Body

He gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. His purpose was to equip God’s people for the work of  serving and building up the body of Christ until we all reach the unity of faith and knowledge of God’s Son. God’s goal is for us to become mature adults—to be fully grown, measured by the standard of the fullness of Christ. As a result, we aren’t supposed to be infants any longer who can be tossed and blown around by every wind that comes from teaching with deceitful scheming and the tricks people play to deliberately mislead others. Instead, by speaking the truth with love, let’s grow in every way into Christ, who is the head. The whole body grows from him, as it is joined and held together by all the supporting ligaments. The body makes itself grow in that it builds itself up with love as each one does their part. Ephesians 4:11-16

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