Meet the General Secretary

The Rev. Patrick Barrett, II, is an ordained Elder in the AME Zion Church and serves as the General Secretary of Christian Education. He is a 2008 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and a 2014 Master of Divinity graduate from the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He also holds a certificate in Human Rights and Theology from the Stockholm School of Theology in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2015, he was selected as a Lewis Fellow in Wesley’s Lewis Center for Church Leadership and was inducted into World Methodist Evangelism’s Order of the FLAME in 2018. He has served two congregations as pastor – St. Paul A.M.E. Zion church in Media, PA, and Alleyne A.M.E. Zion Church in Alexandria, VA – and is the former Co-Episcopal Director of Christian Education for the Mid-Atlantic Episcopal District. Prior to his election, Rev. Barrett served the A.M.E. Zion Church as the Program Director in the Department of Christian Education. In this role, he held responsibility for organizing and implementing the programs of the Christian Education Department’s Winter Meetings and the Quadrennial Conventions. Now he stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before to lead the Department of Christian Education into another level of vibrancy and effectiveness; working with church leaders to develop resources and programs that help to build relevant and impactful discipleship ministry for the whole church.