Meet The Pastor
Apostle Mark A. Haywood
Apostle Mark A. Haywood
Senior Pastor
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana to the union of
Evangelist Julia and Suffragan Bishop E.C.
Haywood, Apostle Haywood was raised in the tradition of Apostolic holiness.
Apostle Haywood was blessed of the Lord to find his soul-mate in his youth. At the age of 16 he encountered Krishana Fitzgerald. After dating for four years, they were married by Apostle's father, District Elder (now Suffg. Bishop) E.C. Haywood at (Greater) Christ Temple. From their love has been born one daughter, Brianna Haywood.
Apostle Haywood served the Lord in several positions in the church, as a drummer, choir member, associate elder, in-touch minister, and Sunday school teacher.
After laboring with the vision for more than three years, on June 14th 2005 Apostle Mark A. Haywood stepped out in faith, and with the blessing of his
pastor, founded Christ Kingdom Church.
In March of 2007 Apostle Haywood founded Kingdom Church International Fellowship, Inc., an apostolic organism centered in exalting the Lord Jesus Christ through mass evangelism campaigns and church planting. He was elected to the office of Bishop April 5, 2007 and consecrated at the hands of Bishop Jonathan Allen and Bishop Herbert Coats April 10, 2008. In December of 2009 Kingdom Church International Fellowship was revised and reincorporated as The Apostolic Church, Inc.
In March of 2011 Apostle Haywood became the assistant pastor of Life Changing Ministries, where he co-labored with his older brother, Pastor Jeffrey L. Thomas.
2013 brought Apostle Haywood back to where he started as he was called to return to his home church, Greater Christ Temple Apostolic Church, to be the successor to his natural father, Suffragan Bishop E.C. Haywood. On Sunday, January 26, 2014 Apostle Mark A. Haywood was installed as the senior pastor of the oldest Pentecostal church in the city.
Apostle Haywood has an awesome vision of ministry from the LORD and surely the LORD's greatest works through Apostle Haywood for the Kingdom
of God lay in the future.