Our Pastor

Woodrow Williams

    Pastor Williams was born and raised in the Evans County Community located in S.E. Georgia. He is a man of humble beginnings. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife until all of the children were older, then she worked as a nursing assistant.

Pastor Williams is a 1968 graduate of Evans County High School, 1972 graduate of Savannah State College with a BS in Mathematics and Physics; and a 1987 graduate of the Morehouse School of Religion at I.T.C. (Interdenominational Theological Center) with a concentration in Pastoral Care and Counseling.

Pastor Williams is the father of three children, Sonja, Jorell and Jahmeel. Pastor Williams served eleven years as an Engineer with Georgia Power Company, the first black to hold such a position in the Macon Division. He then became a Staff Chaplin at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia where he was the first black to serve in this position, paving the way for other black men and women to follow.

Pastor Williams began his local church ministry at Kelley Chapel United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia as the Minister of Youth in 1989 and was appointed as Senior Pastor October 1, 1989, again a first. He served in this appointment for eight years. He received more than 300 members into the Body of Christ. His ministry has carried him to Central America in 1993 and to the Holy Land in 1994, 1996 and 2008. He has had the opportunity to be the Evangelist for a multitude of Revivals.

Pastor Williams has formerly served on several boards and committees: Chair of the Committee on Churches in Changing Communities of ADOX District.; Chair of the District Pastors of ADOX District; Conference Committee of Church and Society; United Way Board of Advisors; Conference Urban Action, Inc.; Griffin District Board of Ordained Ministry; Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Wesley Foundation at Clayton College and State University; Dean of the Board of Managers for Pastor’s School; and the McDonough Elementary School Big Brother Program; and Chair of McDonough Housing Authority.

Pastor Williams currently serves on the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry; a mentor for Ministry Candidates, and District Board of Ordained Ministers.

In 1992 Pastor Williams led the Wesley family in a 2.13 million dollar Building Project that yielded a 27,000 square feet facility. This structure was dedicated in February 2003. Several men and women answered their call to Ministry under his leadership with at least ten currently serving as pastors. The membership grew from 1998 until Pastor Williams departure in 2007. He baptized and married many.

On June 24, 2007, Pastor Williams was appointed the senior Pastor of Hoosier Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Under Pastor Williams leadership he has started a visitation ministry and a membership care ministry.

Pastor Williams says, “I strive to serve where God leads me and to do all that is asked of me.”