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Dr. Marion M. Crayton, Minister to Congregational Care & Worship
Phone: 301-408-0750
E-mail Address: mcrayton@turner-ame.org

Rev. Dr. Marion Morton Crayton is an Ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. As Minister for Congregational Care, she facilitates Grief Share support sessions, provides care for families experiencing the loss of a loved one and helps with planning for and officiating at celebrations of life, serves as eulogist; and conducts home, hospital and hospice visits. She has accompanied several AME medical mission trips to Africa and to Jamaica. She holds several degrees among which are a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC and a Doctor of Education from Nova Southeastern University. She serves as the Advocate for Persons who are Differently Abled for the International Health Commission of the AME Church. She is employed with the United States Department of Education in the Office of Special Education Programs and has Systems Change and Correctional Education as her Lead Areas.

Dr.Gadson is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and currently serves as Turner Memorial’s Executive Minister. She holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Morgan State University, graduate degrees from Howard University and Wesley Theological Seminary, and an earned Doctor of Ministry degree from Duke Divinity School. Dr. Gadson is also trained as a consultant and researcher, specializing in the area of leadership change and transition and ministerial identity.