Rev. Gayle Davis-Culp

Pastor Gayle Davis-Culp

18512 Avenue Q

Palmdale, CA 93550

Phone: (661) 274-8535

O: (310) 434-4332

Rev. Gayle Davis-Culp, Pastor 200 East 68th Street North Long Beach CA 90805-1212 USA 310-631-9166

Holy Trinity A.M.E. Church Rev. Gayle Davis-Culp, Pastor

18512 Ave Q PO Box 902162 Palmdale CA 93550 USA 661-274-8535 909-865-0323

Rev. Gayle Davis-CulpPastor

Rev. Gayle Davis-Culp serves as the new Senior Pastor of Holy Trinity A.M.E., Long Beach and has served as the Senior Pastor of the Holy Trinity A.M.E. Church, Palmdale.Under her leadership at Palmdale, the church fed the homeless; gave scholarships to member high school graduates, and reaching beyond the walls to include some students who were not members of the church; contributed to missions in Africa; contributed benevolent offerings to those in need; bought a 24-passenger bus; and participated in local and area Missionary and YPD programs, sending youth to camp and other church activities.

Rev. Davis-Culp, an ordained elder in the A.M.E. Church, holds a Master's degree in English, has completed all but her dissertation for her PhD, and has completed twenty units toward a Master of Divinity at Claremont Theological Seminary.Rev. Davis-Culp has served as an English Professor at Santa Monica College for over ten years and currently serves as Director of the TRIO program at Santa Monica College.Before coming to Santa Monica, she served as Chair of English, Speech, Reading and Developmental Math at Compton College; taught English and Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University; was the Assistant Director of the Honors Program at Arizona State University, as well as taught in the English Department.Rev. Davis-Culp lived in Cameroon, West Africa for almost two years, where she lectured at the University of Yaounde and taught English as a Second Language for USAID.Hailing from the south, Rev. Davis-Culp taught at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) and Midwestern State University, in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Rev. Davis-Culp has preached at churches in Southern California, in Northern California, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Texas.She will be conducting a revival in Mississippi in May, 2003.

Rev. Davis-Culp is the wife of Jerry Culp, and they have two wonderful children, Jeremy and Marissa.

Rev. Gayle Davis-Culp Senior Pastor

Pasadena City Library Director Jan Sanders leads a panel discussion featuring Gustavo Arellano, Author, Ask a Mexican; Gayle Davis-Culp, Professor of African-American Literature, Santa Monica College & longtime friend of the late Pasadena-born author Octavia Butler; and Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning creator of the Mas Arai mysteries.

Gayle Davis-Culp, TRIO

Gayle Davis-Culp, Director (310) 434-4332

Tomás Riojas, Counselor (310) 434-4663

For more information contact Gayle Davis-Culp , Director ( 310 ) 452-9332 , Linda Webster , Counselor ( 310 ) 450-5150 , ext. 9663 , Dept. Secretary or Ingrid Rodas ( 310 ) 452-9347.