Pastor Melvyn E. F. Hayden III
Pastor Melvyn Eugene Francis Hayden III was born to Pastor and
Mrs. Melvyn and Sandra Hayden in Norfolk, VA. in 1971. As the
only son of four children he was attacked at one month old by two
terminal diseases, which plunged him into a coma. He was
anointed by his father and two local pastors of the Allegheny East
Conference and after the third anointing was miraculously healed.
At the age of five he responded to his mother who asked him
what he wanted to do when he grew up by saying, “To build God’s
House.” He was baptized at the age of 9 yrs. Old and was very
active in church as a child.
As he grew older he served as class pastor on several
occasions at both the Sligo Elementary and Takoma Academy
church schools. In 1989 he attended Oakwood College and
started a youth ministry of 40 students called the Bell Tower
Ministries. He was joined in Holy Matrimony with his High School
sweetheart in 1995 and the two moved to Andrew University.
There he started a 50 member youth ministry called L.I.F.E.
(Living In Full Effect) and received a B.A. in Religion. While
continuing in the Masters of Divinity Program in the Theological
Seminary he received a call in 1998 by Dr. Norman Miles of the
Lake Region Conference to pastor a new church which grew in
one year from 16 to over 100 members in South Bend, IN.
While studying in the Masters of Divinity Program, Elder Joseph
McCoy extended a call and sponsored him through the reminder
of his graduate education and in 2000 extended to him a
placement in the South Central Conference as a full time licensed
minister at the Lima Drive SDA Church in Lexington, KY. and the
Capital City SDA Church in Frankfort, KY. By 2003 Pastor
Hayden planted a new Spanish Company and the district is now a
3 church district. In the summer of 2004 Pastor Melvyn Hayden III
was ordained by the laying on of hands at the South Central
Conference Camp meeting and given the authority to minister
worldwide.
In August 2005, Pastor Hayden III he returned to Takoma
Academy by accepting a call to be the Chaplain and Freshman /
Sophomore Bible teacher. In May of 2006 Pastor Hayden was
extended a call by the Potomac Conference to be an Associate
Youth Pastor of the Community Praise SDA Church in Alexandria,
VA. Within his first year he also started a Bible Study which grew
from 6 people to over 20 and became know as "The Bowie
Project". Once the group grew to over 70 in attendance at the
Bowie Highschool he called his friend Pastor Paul Graham from
NY to be it's full time Pastor and it continued to grow and in less
than 2 years grew to over 500 attending every Sabbath.
In July of 2010, Pastor Hayden III was extended a call by the
Allegheny East Conference to pastor the Mitchellville SDA Church
in Largo, MD which also includes the Deanwood Fellowship in
Washington DC. where he presently serves.
His wife Donna ministers by his side as a 5th grade teacher at the
Sligo Adventist Elementary School. They have four children:
Adrianna, Melvyn IV, Brianna and Cianna.
Pastor Melvyn Eugene Francis Hayden III was born to Pastor and
Mrs. Melvyn and Sandra Hayden in Norfolk, VA. in 1971. As the
only son of four children he was attacked at one month old by two
terminal diseases, which plunged him into a coma. He was
anointed by his father and two local pastors of the Allegheny East
Conference and after the third anointing was miraculously healed.
At the age of five he responded to his mother who asked him
what he wanted to do when he grew up by saying, “To build God’s
House.” He was baptized at the age of 9 yrs. Old and was very
active in church as a child.
As he grew older he served as class pastor on several
occasions at both the Sligo Elementary and Takoma Academy
church schools. In 1989 he attended Oakwood College and
started a youth ministry of 40 students called the Bell Tower
Ministries. He was joined in Holy Matrimony with his High School
sweetheart in 1995 and the two moved to Andrew University.
There he started a 50 member youth ministry called L.I.F.E.
(Living In Full Effect) and received a B.A. in Religion. While
continuing in the Masters of Divinity Program in the Theological
Seminary he received a call in 1998 by Dr. Norman Miles of the
Lake Region Conference to pastor a new church which grew in
one year from 16 to over 100 members in South Bend, IN.
While studying in the Masters of Divinity Program, Elder Joseph
McCoy extended a call and sponsored him through the reminder
of his graduate education and in 2000 extended to him a
placement in the South Central Conference as a full time licensed
minister at the Lima Drive SDA Church in Lexington, KY. and the
Capital City SDA Church in Frankfort, KY. By 2003 Pastor
Hayden planted a new Spanish Company and the district is now a
3 church district. In the summer of 2004 Pastor Melvyn Hayden III
was ordained by the laying on of hands at the South Central
Conference Camp meeting and given the authority to minister
worldwide.
In August 2005, Pastor Hayden III he returned to Takoma
Academy by accepting a call to be the Chaplain and Freshman /
Sophomore Bible teacher. In May of 2006 Pastor Hayden was
extended a call by the Potomac Conference to be an Associate
Youth Pastor of the Community Praise SDA Church in Alexandria,
VA. Within his first year he also started a Bible Study which grew
from 6 people to over 20 and became know as "The Bowie
Project". Once the group grew to over 70 in attendance at the
Bowie Highschool he called his friend Pastor Paul Graham from
NY to be it's full time Pastor and it continued to grow and in less
than 2 years grew to over 500 attending every Sabbath.
In July of 2010, Pastor Hayden III was extended a call by the
Allegheny East Conference to pastor the Mitchellville SDA Church
in Largo, MD which also includes the Deanwood Fellowship in
Washington DC. where he presently serves.
His wife Donna ministers by his side as a 5th grade teacher at the
Sligo Adventist Elementary School. They have four children:
Adrianna, Melvyn IV, Brianna and Cianna.
