Rev. Julius McAllister, Jr.

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The Reverend Dr. Julius Harrison McAllister, Jr. is the 35th anointed Senior Minister of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tallahassee, Florida. A fourth-generation minister, he answered the call to the ministry in 1992. Previously, he distinguished himself as an outstanding pastor in the Detroit and Chicago areas. He was a youth minister at Oak Grove AME Church in Detroit, Michigan. He also served as pastor of the Payne Chapel AME Church in Chicago, Illinois, and the Greater Institutional AME Church in Chicago.

His devotion to community growth and development led to the creation of Come Home for Christmas, which serviced nearly 5,000 homeless, poor, and underprivileged adults and 2,000 children as well as raised $700,000 to support needy families in Chicago during the Christmas season. As President/CEO of the Bethel Community Development Corporation (Bethel CDC), an affiliate church ministry, Reverend Julius has supervised the construction and rehabilitation of 80 homes for low-income families in the city of Tallahassee for $14.8 million and led the church in building 10 single homes for rental for low-income families. Under his leadership, Bethel’s annual Thanksgiving Basket Project provides hearty meals for nearly 2,500 people annually, and the “Families Reaching Families Christmas Project” provides toys, bicycles, clothes, and gifts to thousands of needy children in the community.

Reverend Julius McAllister received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1993, and a Master of Divinity degree from the Turner Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. In 2007, he earned a Doctorate in Ministry degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago.

He is married to Deana Elizabeth Young, a committed educator and school administrator. They are the proud parents of three children: Julius Harrison McAllister, III, Colin McKinley Young McAllister, and Dylan David Jeremiah McAllister.