Rev. Wesley Hall

My name is Reverend Wesley Hall. Think of a Methodist dormitory and you’ll never forget my name! I am a native of Greensboro, was baptized as a United Methodist, grew up in Southeast Guilford County where my family has lived for generations, and am now glad to be home. I graduated from UNC-Greensboro with degrees in Accounting and Finance; and from North Carolina State (go Pack!) with a master’s degree in Management. In my secular life, I worked for my undergraduate alma mater, The Greensboro Realtors’ Association, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial.

In an unsettling time, I found a return to faith and was spoken to as a surprising call to ministry by John 21 in January 2004. At the time I was a Lutheran, went to speak to my pastor about my call to ministry, and left with a date to preach. The Greensboro area Lutheran pastors taught me homiletics (art of preaching) and for five years I was a volunteer lay speaker and candidate for ministry in the ELCA until surviving a health crisis in 2009 when I decided to pursue vocational ministry by starting a M.Div. at Wake Forest University. During two years there, I took Lutheran and UMC theology and did an internship at Irving Park in Greensboro. They, along with their pastor who is to this day my best friend in ministry, convinced me to become a United Methodist again. Doing this meant that I had to finish my final year with classes at Duke during the week, Hood on weekends, and Clinical Pastoral Education at Alamance Hospital in the summer. During this time, one of my Lutheran pastor friends connected me to the pastor at Morehead UMC in Greensboro who hired me as a part-time assistant for two years. In 2013, I became the solo pastor at Level Cross-Siloam where I was also the leader of the South Surry Missional Network until 2021. During that time I became an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church. I then moved to Reeds-Ebenezer in Lexington until I had a massive health crisis, a stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and a severe sodium deficiency in 2023.

I’ve been told by many doctors that it was a miracle I survived any of that and honestly believe God isn’t finished with me here yet. I’ve been slowly recovering since then but am a long way from bowling again. I used to really enjoy that, although I was never very good at it. And my hot dog eating days are over too. But please know how thrilled I am to become your pastor and grateful for this opportunity. God has richly blessed me in living in a place I deeply love and taking a job again that I love even more. A couple of other details to get to know me better, I’ve never been married. I have tons of eclectic interests: history, literature, debate, North Carolina pottery, sports, the outdoors, and listening to all kinds of music from Classical to Zydeco. I love people and hate bureaucracy among many other loves and hates. Thank you for reading to this point, I’ll fill in details in future sermons, hopefully for a long time to come. But far more than that, I will do my best to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ which gives me hope above all else. Blessings in Christ ~Wesley