Stacy Evans
Youth Programs Coordinator
The Rev. Stacy R. Evans was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri to Paul and Virginia Overman. She is the fourth born of three brothers and one sister. She attended Kansas City, MO schools, until the fourth grade, at which time she moved to Raytown, MO, and attended school there until graduation.
With honors she graduated from Raytown South High School, and went on to attend the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Journalism where she received a Bachelor’s of Journalism in Broadcasting and Producing Journalism, as well as a Minor in African American Studies. She worked as a journalist for 14 years at various radio stations including KPRS/KPRT, KGGN, and an internship at KMBC-TV 9, she also worked as a reporter under Lucille Blueford and Donna Stewart at the Kansas City Call Newspaper. During years of working in radio, Rev. Evans also began working with young people; she has volunteered and has been employed by a number of youth organizations, teaching everything from journalism and language arts to environmental awareness.
In 1998 she earned a Master of Theological Studies from Saint Paul School of Theology, with an emphasis in Black Church Ministries.
Rev. Evans is an Itinerate Elder, and has been a Senior Pastor in the A.M.E. Church for 24 years. She is the former two term President of the African Methodist Episcopal Ministerial Alliance of Kansas City, MO, and Kansas City, KS, and served two terms as the Alliance Chaplain. She is now Chairperson of the Western University Association of the AME Church, as well as the Quindaro Ruins Townsite Project.
Today, Rev. Evans is the proud Pastor of Power of Faith AME Church, Kansas City, MO, where she continues to seek God’s face and learn from the people. Her motto is: “To God Be the Glory For the Things He Has Done!!!”