Staff | Memorial Fernandina

Memorial's Pastoral Staff

Rev. Dr. Mark Charles

Rev. Rachel Williams

Rev. Alyce Parmer

Senior Pastor
PastorCharlie@mumconline.com

Pastor Charlie, as he likes to be called, and his wife, Margaret, are both from Northern Ireland. Together they have two children: Eva & Jackson. They also have two dogs, Ralph & Annie. Pastor Charlie earned his bachelor’s degree in Theology from Queens University in Belfast. He earned his master’s degree in Mission from the University of Manchester and completed is Doctorate from Wesley Theological Seminary. In his spare time, Pastor Charlie loves the sport of rugby, which he played competitively for 25 years, and is passionate about watching English Premier League soccer and likes to play golf and make music.

Associate Pastor
PastorRachel@mumconline.com

Born in Key West and living as a PK (pastor's kid) Rachel has loved all over Florida. She attended both Ferman University and Florida State University, from which she earned her BA in International Affairs. After college, she worked at FSU Wesley Foundation and then as a volunteer coordinator at a faith-based after school program in Austin, Texas.

She attended Emory University’s Candler School of Theology for her Master of Divinity from 2016-2019 and stayed on after graduation as an Admissions Recruiter for two years. (Former Memorial Pastor Rev. Dr. Anne Burkholder was the Dean of Methodist Studies while she studied and worked there.)

Before coming to Memoria, she served as the Minister of Administration and Children at Eastside Church in Atlanta.

Rachel and her husband, Nick, have two sons, Austin and Aidan, and a rescue dog named Hooch.

Pastoral Care Pastor
PastorAlyce@mumconline.com

Reverend Alyce Parmer’s childhood and youth were spent in numerous states and two foreign countries, but she has always claimed Florida. She was married to her late husband, Bud, for over 38 years and are parents and grandparents to four living grown children and 9 living grandchildren.

An ordained deacon, Pastor Alyce is also magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Florida State University and holds a master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Asbury Theological Seminary. She is now in retired clergy status but continues in her role as Memorial’s Pastoral Counseling Pastor.

Pastor Alyce has served as pastor, an associate pastor, and interim pastor in the Florida Conference. In 2011 she founded Wisdom's Wellspring, a homelessness prevention residential program for women.