LEADERSHIP

Bishop Stacy M. McQueen was born October 2, 1937, in Moncks Corner, S.C. to the late Dea. Wardell & Evang. Thelma McQueen.  In 1954 his family migrated to Newark, NJ.  

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Bishop Stacy McQueen came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ more than 60 years ago under the leadership of the late Apostle Arturo Skinner. Apostle Arturo Skinner, known as the "Father of Deliverance" in Pentecostal circles, founded the Deliverance Evangelistic Center of Brooklyn and Newark, NJ,

 

New York, in the 1950s and founded other churches, or centers, in cities such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newark, New Jersey; and other large and small cities up and down the East Coast. Skinner's ministry, which Pentecostal in nature, focused on salvation and divine healing. There was also a strong element of the prophetic in Skinner's ministry and in the ministries of the evangelists and other clergy who received ecclesiastical training at his centers.

 

Nine months after Bishop McQueen accepted Christ he became a full-time evangelist.  A little more than two years later he married Ruth Yvonne Hayes. Immediately after this holy union, they evangelized together, pioneering churches in Rocky Mt., NC - Baltimore, MD - Seattle, WA - Aliquippa, PA -and Newark, NJ where he is the Chief Prelate.

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Bishop McQueen has been the Chief Shepard of the Headquarter Church, Full Gospel Monument of Faith, Reaching Higher Full Gospel in Bradenton, FL and Full Gospel Temple of Praise in Somerset, NJ.  He is the Superintendent of the Full Gospel Christian Academy, served on the Board of Directors for Here’s Life Greater New York, a member of the Executive Committee of Northern New Jersey Black Churchman, and associated with the Newark West-Ward Clergy.  He received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the United Bible College and Seminary, Orlando Florida.