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Dr. Helen Stafford Fleming
REV. DR. HELEN STAFFORD FLEMING
Pastor–Author–CEO–Community Partnership–Leadership Specialist-International Advisor, Speaker for Women/Men Seminars and Cultural Transition
Dr. Helen Staf...view moreREV. DR. HELEN STAFFORD FLEMING
Pastor–Author–CEO–Community Partnership–Leadership Specialist-International Advisor, Speaker for Women/Men Seminars and Cultural Transition
Dr. Helen Stafford Fleming is presently the Lead Pastor of Douglas Memorial United Methodist Church. She is the Executive Director of Douglas Worship Center Community Partnership Ecumenical Cooperative Parish. Dr. Fleming is also the founder of the Women Veterans Resource Center that is now located in 11 churches.
In 2010, she retired from the Baltimore Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church where she served as the Assistant to the Bishop for Lay Leadership Development, a Guide to 18 Churches and implemented the first Discipleship Academy and the first Certified Lay Minister classes.
Dr. Fleming was formerly the first female Senior Pastor of Eastwick United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She developed a three campus church. In that capacity, she was the Founder/CEO of a $1.2 million Community Development Corporation (CDC). This multi-purpose center had an upscale Conference Center, Banquet Facility and Sanctuary. She was the founder of the Helping Hand learning center and a mission house that was an award winning food cupboard that served the community.
Dr. Fleming has traveled internationally organizing non-partisan voter education and registration campaigns. She was invited by the United Nations and the Namibian political arena of Southwest Africa to assist in the one-person-one vote transition to independence from the apartheid regime. She has chaperoned African and Korean American youth on a tour for cultural exchange in Seoul, Korea. As an entrepreneur, she was the Founder/CEO of The Career Development Business School that trained and placed over 4,000 welfare recipients.. Dr. Fleming was appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore City as the Minority Economic Development Liaison for Entrepreneurs. She also hosted a radio and television talk show. Dr. Fleming is the author of “The Mind of a Preaching Woman.”
Dr. Fleming has received over 42 awards; such as, President George W. Bush Faith-based Initiative recognition at the 2004 State of the Union Address, the Tennessee Honorary Citizen Award, Legislative Black Caucus Awards, the Coalition of 100 Black Woman Award, the Million Man March Award, the Korean Council of Churches Award, Philadelphia Liberty Bell Award, United Methodist Men Award, Military Chaplain Award and numerous other recognitions.
Her desire is to continue to be a consultant to urban churches on community partnership, racial reconciliation and leadership development. She hopes to be a life line to churches that are being challenged during the shifting of the guards in the inner city communities.view less
Books by Dr. Helen Stafford Fleming
Developing Community Partnership Handbook: The Repair of the Breach