Biography
Senior Pastor - Elder Mark F. James
As a
resident of Washington, D.C. Mark F. James has lived in several Places. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, later
relocated to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then Baltimore, MD.
The first
child of Yvonne D. Myers and Delroy A. James, Mark attended and graduated from
the Poughkeepsie city school system.
After graduation of high school, he pursued biblical studies at the
Mid-Hudson valley Bible school. After
completing a 3-year certificate course, he pursued a degree in Business
Administration at Dutchess Community College.
Mark transferred to the great Morgan State University and completed his
degree in Business Administration and a minor in Music-concentration in Chorale
Conducting.
As he grew
up in the Poughkeepsie area, Mark worked in the church vigorously. He served in many areas of ministry. He served on the usher board, and also served
as president and vice president of the youth and young adult ministry. At a young age, he sang in the choir and
later became the choir director. Under
the direction of Bishop Debra E, Gause, Mark became her personal musician and
Minister of Music of the Holy Light Pentecostal Church, Inc. He was licensed to preach the Gospel in July
1997. Mark Later moved away and became
the Musician of The Baptist Temple Church in Newburgh, N.Y., where he had the
most opportunity to serve in all capacities of ministry. He honors and celebrates the late Dr. Saul S.
Williams for believing in the God in him and giving him the opportunity to
advance in ministry.
In 1999, God
birth in Mark a ministry to help those that marginalized and are left for
dead. The ministry today is known as Acceptance Worship Center Ministry, which was started in May 2013. Minister Mark ( as affectionately called)
serves as the lead Pastor of AWCM.
For the Past
years, Mark has served as one of the Associate preachers to his Pastor, Dr. Charles B.
Jackson of the St. John Baptist Church of Marshall Heights, Washington DC. He continued to serve sharing his gift and
showing his love for God through the Music Ministry which he birth called One Sound.
Mark
believes in always Giving God your best and knowing that The Best is yet to
come.
One of his
favorite passages in the Bible is Psalms 27, especially verse 5 – “For in the
time of trouble, he shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His
tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.”
