Our Staff

In union there is strength.

The Right Reverend Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr., Presiding Bishop
The Reverend Judy M. Richardson, Presiding Elder – Greenville District
The Reverend James E. Speed, Sr., Senior Servant

Ministerial Staff

Reverend James E. Speed, Sr.

Senior Pastor

Sister Debra Speed

First Lady & Local WMS Advisor

Sister Gwendolyn Alexander

Administrative Assistant

7th Episcopal Leadership

The Right Reverend Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr.

Presiding Bishop

Phyllis N. Green

Supervisor of Women’s Missionary Society

Our Pastors

The ministers who have served as pastors of Allen Temple are as follows:

Rev. William Beckett, Rev. S.T. Sinclair, Rev. G.T. Strickland, Rev. Tyson, Rev. E.H. Wilson, Rev. James T. Baker, Rev. J.F. Jackson, Rev. E.H. Croix, Rev. Hunter, Rev. Foster, Rev. C.C. Dunlap, Rev. J.W. Lykes, Rev. A.C. Mitchell, Rev. J.G. Thomas, Rev. B.J. Ramsey, Rev. C.L. Henderson, Rev. J.E. McClelland, Rev. J.C. Smart, Rev. O.L. Witherspoon, Rev. A.C. Sumpter, Rev. L.H. Owens, Rev. Hale B. Thompson, Sr., Rev. R.I. Lemon, Rev. J.W. Witherspoon, Rev. B.S. Taylor, Rev. Franklin Dreher, Rev. Cornelius B. Hayes, Rev. John A. Saab, Rev. M.L. Rich, Rev. George Thomas, Rev. Willie Jefferson, Rev. Caesar R. Richburg, Rev. Samuel L. McPherson, and presently, Rev. James E. Speed, Sr.