Rev. Chad Edwards, Senior Pastor

Rev. Chad Edwards was born in the city of Orlando, Florida. He accepted Christ at an early age. He acknowledged God’s calling on his life to preach the Gospel at the age of fourteen and preached his first message at fifteen. His formative years of development and Christian character were molded by the Pastor and “Saints of Old” at his home church, Ebenezer AME Church in Royal, Florida.

Rev. Edwards is a product of the Sumter County Public Schools and a graduate of Wildwood High School in Wildwood, Florida. He has also matriculated through the halls of academia of higher learning at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, FL where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Music Education. He received his Bachelor of Christian Studies from Anderson University Divinity School in Anderson, SC. He received his Master of Arts in Christian Studies from Palm Beach Atlantic Seminary. He is currently studying at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary seeking a Masters in Divinity.

Rev. Edwards has served serval churches in the state of Florida as their Music Minister. Rev. Edwards served as the pastor of Payne Memorial AME Church, who seeks to be a family of believers in Jesus Christ who seeks to change the way culture experiences church. He has a heart to see Mellinials, and Generation Z return back to the four walls of the church by any Godly means necessary. He remains focused on God’s will, destiny, and purpose for his life, he keeps the declarations of Psalm 27 resonating through the cognitive corridors of his mind.