About our Pastor

About our Pastor

Patricia Parker

Reverend Patricia A Parker is an ordained minister (1983) in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and serves as pastor of the Craig Memorial CME Church, in Milwaukee Wisconsin. She is a member of the Southeast Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin Region and is a member of the Committee on Social Concerns.  In 1989, Bishop Dotcy I. Isom ordained Rev. Parker to serve as a Chaplain in Prison Ministry, the first-time elder orders were given for service outside of the local church.   Reverend Parker volunteered her ministerial services for the State of Wisconsin at the ARC Halfway House for Women (4 years) in Madison Wisconsin, at the Southern Oaks School for Girls (17 years) and at the Robert Ellsworth Correctional facility for women (27 years), both in Racine County, Wisconsin.  In 2005, Reverend Parker was assigned “supply pastor” at the Craig Memorial CME Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Reverend Parker served as the Milwaukee District Director of Evangelism and Social Concerns for five years, conducting numerous workshops and seminars on church growth, evangelism, prison ministry, ministries to youth and women. Currently, she is a member of the Milwaukee District Ministers Alliance.

Reverend Parker, (C.S.W., MCCMH), received her degrees in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a degree in Community Mental Health from Trinity College of Vermont.   Rev. Parker also attended Milwaukee School of Theology and Milwaukee Lutheran College.

Reverend Parker also provides consultation and training services for Wisconsin Child Welfare Professional Development System, is a Consultant/Trainer with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and University of Iowa National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice.  She is a co-chair of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee of the National Association of Social Workers-Wisconsin; a member of NASW; a member of the Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Social Work at Concordia University; a member of the National Black Child Development Institute, member of Black Administrators in Child Welfare, National Association of Black Social Workers, Black Women’s Network and the Race Matters Consortium.

Reverend Parker has over forty years of experience working in human and social services, providing individual, family and group therapy in both public and private agencies. She is a Certified Social Worker as well as certified in Trauma Informed Care.

Rev. Parker has one daughter, Amara Parker of Atlanta, GA.