Reverend Dr. H. Donnell FitzJefferies

Within the Western North Carolina Conference Donnell has served as pastor of Berry Temple and Wilson Chapel UMCs (Asheville, NC), Metropolitan UMC (Greensboro, NC), St. Mark UMC (Charlotte, NC), Brooks Temple and St. Stephen UMCs (Lexington, NC), and St. Matthews UMC (Greensboro, NC). Donnell has also served on Conference Staff as the Director of Nurturing and Ethnic Ministries.

In addition, he has served as the treasurer of the Western North Carolina Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, Chair of the Brotherhood/Sisterhood of the WNC Conference, a member of the Diaconal Board, Conference Committee on Religion and Race, Conference Worship Committee, and the Conference Mission Teams Committee. He taught church administration at Coker College in Hartsville SC. Donnell is a certified Spiritual Director and currently serves as a teacher in the School of Spiritual Direction at Hood Theological Seminary, and Chair of the Conference Justice and Reconciliation Team.

Donnell is a native North Carolinian, and his wife Kathy was raised in Pennsylvania. They have one son Jacob who lives in Pennsylvania. Donnell is a graduate of Boston University, Duke University Divinity School (M. Div.), and Hood Theological Seminary (D. Min). Kathy is a graduate of West Chester State College, and Boston University (MSW).