Sought after for her unique gift and style of preaching, teaching, and gifts of healing and deliverance and Women’s Ministry. Rev. Rushdan preaches Gods truth with power and authority.
Rev. Rushdan strongly believes that God is a liberator, redeemer, and emancipator. Therefore, she is adamant that personal weaknesses, struggles, and conditions are mere platforms for God to build upon. She believes that all human beings have been created by God and are therefore uniquely blessed by God with gifts that God can use for Gods’ own purpose.
Music and theatre are also a passion of Rev. Rushdan. She is a worshipper and Psalmist and has belonged to several gospel choirs and is a former member of the N.J State Opera Company. She has been blessed to have performed in college productions of For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, Purlie, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, The Amen Corner, and in has sung in several professional operas such as Tosca, La Traviata, Carmen, Un Ballo de Maschera, the Magic Flute on the stages of the Trenton War Memorial, Newark Symphony Hall and the Garden State Arts Center (PNC) in Holmdel, New Jersey.
Rev. Rushdan views herself as a servant of the God, and gives God all praise, glory and honor for her life and the blessing of being the mother of one beautiful adult daughter whose name is Desiree.
Rev. Rushdan also served St. Matthew Orange, NJ for one year as the Minister of Prayer.
One of Rev. Rushdan’s favorite scriptures is “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of prisons to those who are bound “ Isaiah 61:1. Along with her pastoral duties Rev. Rushdan was the Chairperson for the Newark District Committee on Ministerial Orders and served on the NJ Conference Board of Examiners (Ministers Institute).
Rev. Rushdan graduated with honors from the College of New Rochelle, New York where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters with an emphasis in Religious Studies and a minor in African American Studies. Soon after, Rev. Rushdan attended Drew Theological Seminary Madison, New Jersey where she graduated and received a Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Pastoral Theology.
The Reverend Teresa Lynn Rushdan, M.Div.
Rev. Rushdan is an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She served for many years at St. James A.M.E. Church Newark, New Jersey as the Minister of Pastoral Care. In April 2001 after several years of training, the Lord called Rev. Teresa Lynn Rushdan to become the Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church Madison, New Jersey where she served for 18 years until her semi- retirement in 2019.
Along with her pastoral duties Rev Rushdan was the Chairperson for the Newark District Committee on Ministerial Orders and served on the NJ Conference Board of Examiners (Ministers Institute).
Rev. Rushdan graduated with honors from the College of New Rochelle, New York where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters with an emphasis in Religious Studies and a minor in African American Studies. Soon after, Rev. Rushdan attended Drew Theological Seminary Madison, New Jersey where she graduated and received a Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Pastoral Theology.