Reverend Timothy J. Russell

Tim is an ordained elder in full connection in the North Carolina Conference. He is a native of Indiana and was reared in Indiana, Iowa and Florida. Tim has a B.S.W. from Florida State University and in 1984 received a Master of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. While in seminary Tim served a field education assignment under the guidance of the Reverend Bill Cummings at Wilson Temple United Methodist Church in Raleigh, which led to candidacy in the United Methodist Church. In 1990 he was ordained an elder in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Tim has served as the pastor of the Jerusalem and Zion churches in Warren County, St. Paul in Tabor City, as the associate pastor at Pine Valley in Wilmington and as the senior pastor at Wrightsville UMC in Wrightsville Beach. He served as the Wilmington District Superintendent in 2007-8, the Raleigh District Superintendent in 2008-9 and the interim Rocky Mount District Superintendent in 2010-11. Following the election of Paul Leeland to the episcopacy, Tim began serving as the Director of Ministerial Relations and Assistant to the Bishop on November 1, 2008.

Tim and his wife Pam, the Director of Children’s Ministries at Horne Memorial UMC in Clayton, have two grown children.

Contact Tim in regard to disciplinary procedures, complaints and questions about the Board of Ordained Ministry.