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First Lady Pamela J. Sembly
 Pamela Johnson Sembly was born in Annapolis, Maryland and is the fourth of six children of her loving parents Isaac and the late Mildred Johnson.
She is very active in the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church on all levels, which began as a youth director at Mt. Olive A.M.E. Church. Mrs. Sembly currently serves as the president of the Lillian M. Dorsey Senior Missionary Society of Union Bethel A.M.E. Church. She has served as the recording secretary and treasurer of the Matilda Monroe Area for more than eight years for each office she has held. She was the Editor of the “Bridge”, the Second Episcopal District WMS Newsletter and elected a Delegate to the 15th and 16th Quadrennial Conventions. Mrs. Sembly is also the immediate past president of the Washington Conference Ministers’ Spouses, Widows and Widowers Organization and currently serves as its treasurer and corresponding secretary.
Under her leadership as local president of the Lillian M. Dorsey Senior Missionary several on-going outreach programs have been established, which include the Good Samaritan Ministry, the Senior Outreach Ministry and support to three area shelters.
Professionally, she has been an executive secretary and legal administrative assistant for more than 35 years. Shortly after retirement in 2006 she became the Program Director for the Homeless Prevention Program of the We Are Family Community Development Corporation.
In spite of her very busy schedule, she mostly enjoys being the wife of the Rev. Charles T. Sembly, pastor of Union Bethel A.M.E. Church in Randallstown, Maryland and the mother of three adult children and six beautiful grandchildren.
She enjoys traveling and, along with her husband, has traveled abroad to several countries including South Africa, France, Italy, Spain, China, Singapore and Turkey.
Mrs. Sembly also enjoys reading, scrap booking and writing. She is blessed with a beautiful voice and thoroughly enjoys being a member of the Union Bethel Praise Ensemble. Her favorite hymn is “I Must Tell Jesus” and her favorite scripture is, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9 |
