Lisa Allen has been involved in church and church music for twenty-nine years, beginning in her home church, Cade Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, in Jackson, Mississippi. She joined church at age seven, began playing for Sunday school at age nine and for church at age twelve.

Lisa graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson with degrees in Piano Performance and Music Education. She taught music in the Jackson Public Schools System for two years and returned to school to pursue graduate degrees in music. After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi with Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Music Education, she began teaching music in the Fulton County School System in Atlanta, Georgia.

After graduation in 2003, Lisa accepted a position as Associate Pastor of Kingswood UMC in Dunwoody, Georgia. In this position, she serves as the Pastor of Worship and Evangelism, Director of Music, and staff liaison to Women’s Ministries. She was commissioned as a Probationary Elder in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church in June, 2004.

Lisa has served as worship leader for the North Georgia Annual Conference and the South Georgia Pastors’ School. She has led workshops in the areas of music, worship, and evangelism for several local districts’ training events, and for local and out-of-state church events. She sits on three conference boards and has led in several conference workshops related to discerning one’s call to ministry.

Lisa lives in Jonesboro, Georgia with her husband, Dallas, and their two daughters, Kiera and Chandler. She is excited about being in ministry at Kingswood and looks forward to each day as a new opportunity to live God’s command as recorded in Micah 6:8: Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God!