Who is Maidstone Mulenga?
The Rev. Dr. Maidstone Mulenga serves as the Director of Communications for the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church. In this role, Dr. Mulenga manages and directs the internal and external communications of the Council and oversees the development and implementation of a comprehensive communications strategy for the Council of Bishops.
Previously, Dr. Mulenga served in the dual role as the Assistant to the Bishop and Director of Connectional Ministries in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. In that role, Dr. Mulenga was the steward of the vision of the BWC, where he provided leadership to 34 distinct ministry and mission teams. He also oversaw the resourcing of the conference’s 640 churches, four campus ministries, and three camping and retreat facilities. An avid believer in the power of the global church, Dr. Mulenga also fostered the conference’s partnerships in Zimbabwe, Eurasia, South Korea and Puerto Rico.
As an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church, he has also served as pastor in several churches in the then Western New York Conference and as director of communications in the Upper New York Conference.
Before answering a call to ordained ministry, Dr. Mulenga worked at several newspapers in Michigan and New York as editor of various departments and at various levels, including as Managing Editor.
He has served as delegate to the General and NEJ Conferences and is the Editor of the Northeastern Jurisdiction Conference Daily Christian Advocate. At the 2016, 2019 and 2024 General Conferences, Dr. Mulenga served as Secretary of the Committee on Correlation and Editorial Revision, the committee that edits the Book of Discipline.
Dr. Mulenga serves as director on several boards including the United Methodist Publishing House.
Dr. Mulenga holds journalism degrees from Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka, Zambia and from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He holds a masters degree in computer-mediated communication from State University of New York; a master of divinity and a doctorate in divinity from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York.
He is a published author in several books and publications including his own, To Our Readers: A Study of Guilt Redemption in Newspaper Corrections.
Dr. Mulenga is married to Charity and they have two daughters, Lukonde and Mukuka, who attend the University of Michigan and Penn State respectively.
Previously, Dr. Mulenga served in the dual role as the Assistant to the Bishop and Director of Connectional Ministries in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. In that role, Dr. Mulenga was the steward of the vision of the BWC, where he provided leadership to 34 distinct ministry and mission teams. He also oversaw the resourcing of the conference’s 640 churches, four campus ministries, and three camping and retreat facilities. An avid believer in the power of the global church, Dr. Mulenga also fostered the conference’s partnerships in Zimbabwe, Eurasia, South Korea and Puerto Rico.
As an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church, he has also served as pastor in several churches in the then Western New York Conference and as director of communications in the Upper New York Conference.
Before answering a call to ordained ministry, Dr. Mulenga worked at several newspapers in Michigan and New York as editor of various departments and at various levels, including as Managing Editor.
He has served as delegate to the General and NEJ Conferences and is the Editor of the Northeastern Jurisdiction Conference Daily Christian Advocate. At the 2016, 2019 and 2024 General Conferences, Dr. Mulenga served as Secretary of the Committee on Correlation and Editorial Revision, the committee that edits the Book of Discipline.
Dr. Mulenga serves as director on several boards including the United Methodist Publishing House.
Dr. Mulenga holds journalism degrees from Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka, Zambia and from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He holds a masters degree in computer-mediated communication from State University of New York; a master of divinity and a doctorate in divinity from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York.
He is a published author in several books and publications including his own, To Our Readers: A Study of Guilt Redemption in Newspaper Corrections.
Dr. Mulenga is married to Charity and they have two daughters, Lukonde and Mukuka, who attend the University of Michigan and Penn State respectively.