Michele D. Turner - Pastor

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Pastor Michele D. Turner was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was taught the importance of prayer and fasting by her pastor, mother and mentor, the late Pastor Queenie B. Fulmore Robertson.  Pastor Turner was baptized in Jesus Name as a teenager, but didn't seriously seek salvation until November 23, 1985 when she received the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

Pastor Turner was called to preach the gospel but fought the Lord for three long years. She finally accepted her call in 1988 and has been preaching since that time.  Working by her mother's side in the ministry for 14 years, Pastor Turner learned by example what it meant to "live right no matter what." 

Those years with her pastor and mentor proved to be excellent training grounds as Pastor Robertson knew God had also called her daughter to follow in her footsteps.  Pastor Turner draws upon the legacy of faith her mother left behind as she continues in ministry.

The ministry is blessed to be called "Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries" which is taken from Genesis 26:22.  The name reflects the ministry's mission, which simply put, is to walk in the God-given expanded territory, be fruitful in the land and multiply! With this mandate, Pastor Turner leads the members of Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries with all fervor! 

The journey has taken many unexpected, but God-orchestrated turns.  One of these turns led to the birth of "Rest For A Weary Soul Daily Devotions" in October, 2005.  Every weekday, Pastor Turner prayed and wrote what God gave her for the day's devotions, often using her own personal experiences as the framework for the devotionals. A year later, God set the journey to include the devotions presented on www.restforawearysoul.com. To God be the Glory!

The year 2008 was pivotal as Pastor Turner was blessed to expand the ministry through the means of a five-minute radio program, "Rest For A Weary Soul: Moments of Inspiration." And the Lord continues to open doors.

Pastor Turner graduated from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA with a degree in Business Administration & Communications Management in 1988.  Her writing career included serving as a reporter at The New Pittsburgh Courier where she interviewed the likes of BeBe & CeCe Winans, Vicky Winans, the late James Moore, La Shun Pace and Char McAllister to name a few.  She has written articles for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Whispers From Heaven and The Christian Outlook.  "And God Told You to Do What?" is a book birthed years ago but finally came to fruition at the inaugural Women's Conference, "Becoming the Daughters of Sarah: The Journey." 

Pastor Turner is working on several other book projects, one of which is entitled, God Has A Plan.  The book details Pastor and Elder Turner's personal story of how and where God caused their paths to cross. God Has A Plan will encourage and strengthen the reader's resolve to hold onto God's promises!  

Pastor Turner is married to Elder Roger Lee Turner Sr. They have two adorable (but mischievous) dogs and currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Assistant Pastor  Gary Wingfield was born and raised in Bronx, NY.  He firmly believes that it was his maternal grandmother, Mathild Scott’s prayers that brought him to the Lord!  His grandmother, more affectionately known as “Grandma Jack,” was Holy Ghost filled and didn’t mind sharing her faith with her family.  Often times requiring Assistant Pastor and his siblings to get down on their knees and pray.  “When Grandma came and stayed with us for a while, she’d go back to her room and pray.  It sounded like a train going through our house when she prayed!  None of us were the same!”  Grandma Jack truly planted the seed. 

After graduating from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, the Lord started working on Assistant Pastor’s heart.  In an attempt to make a change, Elder Wingfield made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, PA.  Knowing no one he struck out and God began to bring a harvest in from Grandma Jack’s prayers.  God’s hand gently guided him to sit at a certain restaurant regularly in downtown Pittsburgh where he would meet his future wife, Evangelist Pam Wingfield who instead of accepting a date to a club, invited Elder Wingfield to church.  He came and Grandma Jack’s seed materialized into Elder Wingfield getting baptized in Jesus Name and filled with the Holy Ghost, just like his grandmother!! 

During his service to the Lord he was blessed to become a minister and later an Assistant Pastor under the late Pastor Queenie Robertson.  He has been in ministry for 21 years and has been an assistant pastor to the late Pastor Queeniee Robertson for two years until her demise.  Currently God has blessed him to serve once again as Assistant Pastor under Pastor Robertson’s daughter, Pastor Michele D. Turner at Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries. 

Assistant Pastor Wingfield also holds the offices of trustee, treasurer and Sunday School Superindendant at Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries.

He is married to Evangelist Pamela S. Wingfield and they have three children.  They currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA, where he enjoys the latest tech gagets.

Evangelist Pamela S. Wingfield was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA by her parents Bishop Rudolph and First Lady Ruth Dyke.  Evangelist Wingfield’s childhood, along with her seven siblings, was one filled with attending countless church services. It was common to be in church four times a week.  The year was 1979 when Evangelist Wingfield experienced for herself what they’d been teaching.  She was baptized in Jesus Name and filled with the Holy Ghost. 

She worked for some time at a local television station and while on her lunch break in downtown Pittsburgh she noticed a young man sitting in a restaurant window.  He eventually decided to ask her  for a date, at a club.  She declined, but invited him to church instead.  He accepted the invitation to the church, accepted the invitation to the altar and soon was baptized in Jesus name and filled with the Holy Ghost.  Later on they were married.  It has been 25 years since they met at lunch! 

Evangelist Wingfield was called to the ministry in 1986 under the leadership of the late WL Rawlings in Pittsburgh.  She later served under the ministry of the late Pastor Queenie Robertson as Missionary President, Sunday School Teacher and church secretary.  Currently she ministers and utilizes her administrative talents at Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries under Pastor Robertson’s daughter, Pastor Michele D. Turner.  She also holds the position of trustee. 

Where do I start to explain my life?  I guess it all boils down to choices, since that is what got to me to where I am now.  I was born in 1961 in Harlan, Kentucky.  By the time I was five years old, my mother said I was preaching at our coffee table.  But our home was dysfunctional and after my mother’s second marriage and move to Dayton, Ohio (which proved to be more dysfunctional than her first marriage).  At age 12 I began to choose to run away.

What I need the most was the very thing I ran from all my life.  Running is what caused me to make bad choices.  Many times I looked for the “right thing.”  I was searching for a normal life, but found out my life wasn’t going to be normal anyway. 

My step-grandmother saw to my getting to an apostolic church, which was the only stability that I knew of at that time.  I was baptized in Jesus name and received the Holy Ghost when I was a teenager.  But I soon strayed away from God, which was the worst choice I could have ever made.

At 18, my bad choices hit me front and center.  I committed a crime and was sent to the penitentiary.  Thank God for Godly men and women who continued to pray for me.

After seven years, I came home and married a girl from my childhood but soon found out I’d made yet another bad choice.  I went through a bad divorce and then, once again, made a bad choice which sent me back to the penitentiary.  It was while sitting there that I began to think about choices and where would I go from there.  And that is when I began to purposely choose to do what I was running from for so many years, go back to God.

My bad choices cost me 16 years of being locked up.  I couldn’t blame anyone but myself.  I needed to start making better choices.  I wanted to live better than I had.  I knew I could only get through the years by relying on the Lord by praying and turning myself totally over to Him.  I made up in my mind that this time I would choose the right thing.  And for me, it meant having a family.  Six years of praying for a Godly wife and eight years of corresponding along with monthly visits brought my wife and I together.

God brought my wife and I together and it is the same God that will carry us on.  The Lord caused my wife to see beyond the bad choices I’d made.  She believed with me that I am better than yesterday’s choices.

Today, I can say that I’ve learned the importance of making right choices and standing by them.  I am a product of God’s grace and mercy. 

I am married to Pastor Michele Turner, we have two dogs and currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA.