Evangelist Sharon Jones has been in her role for two years and has worked in the St. Paul’s Prayer Ministry for over eight years. She is active in her church community and wears multiple hats, including as Assistant Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School Instructor, Steward, Stewardess, Class Leader and member of the Health Ministry. She...
Year: <span>2022</span>
Michelle Creer, Associate Minister
Rev. Creer has been in ministry for over twenty years. As an Associate Minister, serving St. Paul AME for over a decade, she is actively engaged in prayer ministries, preaching and mentoring women and youth alike. Born in Cleveland, it was at the age of nineteen, that she discovered God had a calling on her...
Michelle Thomas, Associate Minister & Itinerate Deacon
Michelle Thomas is Itinerate Deacon, associate minister, and First Lady of St. Paul AME. Like her husband, Gregory, she was ordained over two decades ago. Raised as a baptist woman, and a devout member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Rev. Michelle married into the AME family when she wed her husband in 1987. As a young...
Gregory S. Thomas, Pastor
Gregory Thomas is the Pastor of St. Paul AME Church. Ordained as an Itinerate Elder in 1997, he has over two decades experience in ministering to churches. Reverend (Rev.) Thomas has been the lead pastor of St. Paul since 2015. It’s his third congregation, in the metro Cleveland area. Pastor Thomas’ goal remains to promote...
Grace, what is it? Can it be obtained?
Reverend Gregory S. Thomas Grace is a concept that has been talked about for centuries, yet it is a term that should be familiar to everyone. Grace according to Thomas C. Oden, in his book the Transforming Power of Grace, is “the favor shown by God to sinners.”* We are all beneficiaries of grace bestowed...