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 three 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. He began officially on July 1, 2006 and his wife Donna
ministers by his side as a psychologist and substitute teacher.
They have four children: Adrianna, Melvyn IV, Brianna and
Cianna. (For pictures look up pastorhayden.com) He can be
contacted at (301) 249-3929, home; or (301) 237-7925; cell.
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 three 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. He began officially on July 1, 2006 and his wife Donna
ministers by his side as a psychologist and substitute teacher.
They have four children: Adrianna, Melvyn IV, Brianna and
Cianna. (For pictures look up pastorhayden.com) He can be
contacted at (301) 249-3929, home; or (301) 237-7925; cell.
