WeGo Live with Pastor Darnisha Thomas

For our WeGo Live session this week we have Pastor Darnisha Thomas

About the Speaker

Pastor Darnisha Thomas has always had a passion for ministry since the tender age of 11, thus she was led to share the gospel of Jesus, physically and virtually, in various parts of the United States, Africa, Cuba, Panama, Honduras, and the United Kingdom.

Born and raised in the state of Maryland, Pastor Darnisha Thomas is a graduate of Oakwood University with a Bachelors in Theology with a concentration in Pastoral/Evangelistic Ministry and a minor in Biblical Languages and is a graduate of the Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary with a Masters in Divinity.

Pastor Darnisha Thomas is currently serving at the Southview Seventh-day Adventist Church as the Associate Pastor focusing on children and youth ministries in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Children’s Ministries Director for the Minnesota Conference. She formerly served as the Pastor for Student Ministries and Volunteering at the New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church in Fulton, Maryland.

Pastor Darnisha Thomas is indeed a hidden trailblazer as she is the first Black pastor for both the New Hope and Southview churches and she is the first and only Black woman pastor serving in the Minnesota Conference and the youngest conference children’s ministries director in the North American Division.

Pastor Darnisha Thomas has published work in featured in Spectrum Magazine, Ordained Magazine, and the Current Magazine and she was featured on the Hope Channel as a guest on the Cross Connection show and the General Conference Youth Ministries E-week of Prayer. She is the host of the podcast “The Sister Pastor Speaks” where she shares her insights and experiences of being a woman of color in pastoral ministry and empowers upcoming women clergy to embrace their calling and their own identity in Christ and fosters the atmosphere of sisterhood., thus, she is known as “The Sister Pastor.” Recently, Pastor Darnisha Thomas presented for the Children’s Pastors Conference, organized by the International Network of Children’s Ministry.

Pastor Darnisha has an unquenchable love for Jesus and wants others to know who He is and learn to love and trust Him from the youngest baby to the more chronologically gifted Builder. Her birth promise is Philippians 1:6 “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.