HEMINGWAY TEMPLE A.M.E CHURCH
" The Church Where Love Makes A Difference "
Rev. Margaret Farr Young is the Associate Pastor and First Lady of Hemingway Temple African Methodist Church in Washington, DC. Her husband, the Reverend Thann Young is the Pastor.
Rev. Young is a native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina and received her formal education from the North Carolina public school systems. She matriculated to North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C., where she received the Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1977. While at the University she was inducted into two honor societies; the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society and the Alpha Chi Honor Society.
Upon accepting God’s Call to the ministry, Rev. Young relocated to Boston, Massachusetts and joined the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978. While in Boston, she studied in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Institute for three years and became a very active member in the ministry at St. Paul A.M.E. Church. For eleven years, Rev. Young practiced nursing at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and received the 1987 Black Achievers Award for outstanding leadership in nursing.
In 1989, Rev. Young and her family relocated to the Washington, DC area and united with the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. While at Metropolitan, she assisted in starting the Men and Women’s Ensemble, a gospel singing group at the church. She also directed for the first time at the church, the musical “Witness”, a story about the life and death of Jesus Christ. Under the pastoral leadership of Dr. William P. DeVeaux, she was ordained an Itinerant Elder in the A.M.E. Church in 1992.
FIRST LADY,
REV. MARGARET FARR YOUNG
In 1993, Rev. Young matriculated to the Howard University School of Divinity. She received a Master of Divinity degree in 1996 and graduated with honors. While at the Divinity School she received the D.C. King Award for Effectiveness in the Proclamation of the Gospel and The Howard University School of Divinity Dean’s Award for Academic Excellent.
In 1996, Rev. Young and her husband started the Agape African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland and worked faithfully in that ministry for over sixteen years.
She is presently employed at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. as the Clinical Resource Nurse for the Pre and Post Operative departments. In 2009, she received the “NURSE OF THE YEAR” award in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. She is certified in Perianesthesia and Ambulatory Nursing in the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) and was awarded the ”Excellence in Clinical Practice Award” from the Chesapeake Bay Society of Perianesthesia Nurses (CBSPAN) in March 2010. She presently serves as President of the DC Chapter of CBSPAN for the hospitals in Washington and suburbia Maryland.
Rev. Young has two children, Deidre Nicole Young Jacas and Jonathann Mark Young; one son in-law, Wayne Jacas, and three grandsons, Joshua, Ethann and Matthew.
Hemingway Temple A.M.E Church
