About Our Pastor
Reverend Tomika C. McFadden was raised in Baltimore City in the community of Cherry Hill by her parents, who were the first to instill the foundation of God. She received her formal education from the Baltimore City Public School System and believes that one should always study to show themselves approved unto God; she graduated from Bowie State University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Rev. McFadden graduated with a Master of Divinity with a certificate in African American Church Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary. She is currently a Doctor of Ministry student in the Trauma, Moral Injury, and Christian Life cohort at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
Acknowledging that God was moving mightily in her life, she accepted God’s call to preach the Gospel at age 18 on the campus of Bowie State University. Rev. McFadden is an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) and is serving as the Pastor of Christ Our Redeemer A.M.E. Church. She is also serving as part of the Campus Ministry Staff at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Rev. McFadden previously served as the Minister to Youth, College Students, and Young Adults at Greater Mount Nebo A.M.E. Church in Bowie, MD under the leadership of both Rev. Dr. Gerald Folsom and Presiding Elder Rev.
Dr. Jonathan Weaver, where she has written and developed youth and teen training curricula and expanded the church’s capacity for community outreach by facilitating and partnering with local colleges and community organizations.
Rev. McFadden has worked with community organizations like SHARE DC, NAMI, Washington D.C. Coalition for the Homeless, Araminta, and several other community initiatives focused on correcting social disparities impacting marginalized communities and advocating for mental health and housing stability. Overall, Rev. McFadden lives to educate, empower, and equip youth, young adults, and urban communities to identify their role in the world and become successful in their purpose. She strives to be an example of love and faithfulness to God, the communities, and the people she encounters along her journey through life.
Rev. McFadden is a child of the Most High God who desires more than anything else to please God first! She wants to continually be a faithful witness to others and a woman of God who not only talks about God but has a lifestyle of holiness to enforce what she speaks.