Our Pastor

Reverend Tamesha Mills is the pastor of Saint James AME Church in Danbury, CT. She was appointed to Saint James by Presiding Prelate, Rev. Julius H. McAllister Sr. at the First Episcopal District Planning Meeting in June 2023.

Rev. Mills is a proud New Yorker born and raised in Queens. She is a woman after God’s own heart and is passionate about preaching and teaching the liberating Gospel of Jesus Christ. Rev. Mills has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts degree from Hofstra University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Adelphi University. In May of 2023, she graduated from an intensive program in Biblical Studies and earned a Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Rev. Mills has served in the church from the tender age of five years old where she began singing in the choir. She accepted the call to ordained ministry in August 2018 and preached her initial sermon in May of 2019.

Before her pastoral appointment, she served as an Associate Minister at The Greater Allen AME Cathedral of NY under the leadership of Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Elaine Flake and Pastor Emeritus Rev. Dr.Floyd Flake. Ministry has afforded her the opportunity to flourish in the areas of Christian Education and Discipleship through teaching New Members classes, congregational discipleship classes, online workshops, and Bible studies. Her research interests are in the Old Testament, Womanist Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Hebrew, as well as the intersections of faith and the Black experience.

Rev. Tamesha Mills is a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Women in Ministry, an advocacy group within the denomination. She currently serves on the First Episcopal District Women in Ministry Executive Board as the Financial Secretary. She is also a proud 17-year member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated where she has held the office of Chaplain, Parliamentarian and Ivy Leaf Reporter.

Rev. Mills is the youngest of three children. She is a proud auntie, a godmother, and the daughter of a Licensed Evangelist in the Pentecostal Church. Rev. Mills has been blessed to preach, teach, and present research internationally and continues to explore the intersection of scholarship and faith for the justice, equity, and thriving of all of God’s people.