​The Reverend Dr. William M. Campbell, Jr. is a global missions leader, author, and strategist with more than four decades of ministry spanning the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia. Born in Milton, Pennsylvania, to the late Reverend W. Melvin Campbell, Sr. and Edith J. Campbell — both active in the African Methodist Episcopal Church — he is a fourth-generation laborer in the faith. His life journey has carried him through Bermuda and the states of New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and now Maryland.
Dr. Campbell is the founder of Flaming Fire Ministries, a para-church global organization whose mission is to evangelize the lost, equip the believers, empower kingdom leaders, establish local churches, and edify assemblies of Christ-followers. Having concluded 28 years of pastoral ministry on May 1, 2026, he now devotes his vocation full-time to global missions and international development — mobilizing resources, leadership, and Kingdom partnerships for sustainable, Gospel-centered transformation across nations.

Through Flaming Fire Ministries and in partnership with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. Campbell has participated in mission work across Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zambia, Eswatini, India, Rwanda, the Dominican Republic, New Orleans, and Kenya. In Nakuru, Kenya, he helped plant the first A.M.E. Church — Bethel A.M.E. Nakuru — which has since expanded to eleven churches across the country. Working alongside A.M.E. leadership and Kingdom partners, Flaming Fire Ministries continues to support the advancement of the Gospel through literary resources, collaborative field work, and the mobilization of partners whose combined investment in Kenya approaches $150,000.
From 2016 to 2026, Dr. Campbell served as Senior Pastor of Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Brandywine, Maryland. There he inherited a visionary strategic plan from his predecessor and led the congregation to its complete fulfillment in just over two years — including a $1.4 million capital improvement project renovating both the Brandywine and former Temple Hills campuses. Under his leadership the church engaged in global missional work in Jamaica, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, and Rwanda, and completed the construction of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Lilongwe, Malawi.

During the 2020–2022 pandemic, Dr. Campbell served on the Prince George’s County Food Security Task Force, helping craft and implement strategic action plans to combat food insecurity. Partnering with community, civic, and fraternal organizations, he led efforts that distributed groceries and PPE to more than 34,000 individuals in Temple Hills and surrounding areas.

Across 28 years of pastoral ministry — leading three congregations at Greater Garth Chapel A.M.E. in Dallas, Anderson Chapel A.M.E. in Killeen, and Union Bethel A.M.E. in Brandywine — Dr. Campbell led his churches in renovating, purchasing, and building 27 buildings in service of ministry and mission. In Texas he established Garth House, a church-owned property restored in partnership with a global bank’s community development division, which became a monthly center for hot meals and clothing distribution and was recognized among the Five Points of Light at the 2003 Women’s Missionary Society Quadrennium in Dallas. At Anderson Chapel in Killeen, his congregation provided food and clothing valued at more than $160,000 to 9,756 people in the Bell County area.

Since 1978, Dr. Campbell has proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ through revivals, crusades, missions, conferences, seminars, books, teaching manuals, social media, and technological tools. He is the author of three books — Born to Dream, More Than A Conqueror, and Take It by Force — and three teaching manuals: Giving-Prayer-Fasting: Three Tenets of the Christian Faith, To Seek and Save That Which Was Lost, and A Messianic Passover Haggadah: Looking at Our Faith Through the Eyes of Judaism. He is also a sermon contributor to Athens & Oxford Sermons, compiled by Dr. Joel C. Gregory and published by Hupomone Press. His forthcoming book, The Power of Agreement: Look What Happens When We Come Together, traces a Babel-to-Pentecost framework for unified Kingdom action and is currently in development.
Dr. Campbell pursued undergraduate studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta and holds an Associate of Arts degree from Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Florida; a Master of Divinity from the George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; and a Doctor of Ministry from the Drew Theological School at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. His doctoral thesis, Re-Envisioning the Mission and Vision of Anderson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, documents the local, regional, national, and global missional character of the congregation he served.

Dr. Campbell continues to invest his life in Kingdom work that crosses borders, builds bridges, and demonstrates the power of agreement among God’s people.