Bio of Pastor Marcus J. Singleton
Pastor Marcus J. Singleton is the husband of Rosslyn Byrd Singleton and they are the proud parents of two sons, Marcus Jr. and Joshua. He is a native of Willingboro, New Jersey and the son of John and the late Frances Singleton. Prior to his arrival at St. Paul, Pastor Singleton served as Pastor of the Granville-Vance Charge in North Carolina. In addition, he has served at Emory United Methodist Church, in Washington, DC as the Lead Ministry Coordinator for the Young Adult Ministry and as a teacher and mentor for the young men’s Rights of Passage ministry. Marcus earned his Master of Divinity degree from the Howard University School of Divinity. He was educated in the Willingboro, New Jersey Public School System. After honorably serving in the U.S. Army, Marcus continued his academic pursuit, graduating from Bowie State University with a Bachelor of Science in English Education and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. Pastor Singleton has committed the vast majority of his life to teaching and nurturing the lives of others. He has served as a teacher in many capacities: Sunday school teacher, lead teacher for Designer’s Original, a ministry geared towards pre-teens and teens, an English teacher for Boynton Beach Community High School where he also coached boy’s basketball. He was Dean of Students for a student leadership program, an academic counselor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a resident counselor for the U.S. House of Representatives Page Program in Washington, D.C. Pastor Singleton believes that at the core of every human being is an innate desire and need to discover and respond to their life’s purpose just as Moses asks God in Exodus 3:11, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" - we too are seeking answers for the meaning of our own lives. |

