Meet Our Pastor


The Reverend Tony D. Boone was born the youngest of eight children in Suffolk, Virginia. Upon graduating from high school, Reverend Boone completed his college education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979. He later furthered his education by receiving his Master of Divinity degree from Howard University in Washington, DC, in 1993.

For 19 years, Reverend Tony Boone worked as a Systems Engineer and a Cost Analyst for the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia where he was responsible for the fiscal planning, budgeting and acquisition of several multi-million dollar aircraft weapons system programs.  It was during this time he answered the call to the ministry at Ebenezer AME Church – Fort Washington, under the Pastorate of Reverend Dr. Grainger Browning and Reverend Dr. JoAnn Browning. There he was blessed to serve as the Minister to Men.  There After fulfilling the requirements of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Boone was ordained an Itinerant Elder in June 1995.


In spite of the tremendous ministerial responsibility, Reverend Boone followed the leading of the Holy Spirit to serve a people in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. On June 3, 1995, Reverend Boone was appointed as the Founding Pastor of New Covenant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.  
Under Pastor Boone’s anointed leadership, hundreds of souls have been lead to Christ. The Holy Spirit has gifted him to be a prophetic preacher, who has a unique anointing for preaching restoration, reconciliation and reclamation in the lives of those he serves. He is blessed to be an anointed workshop facilitator and gifted revivalist. He has been blessed to preach internationally in South Korea and in South Africa.  

As a Pastor for over 30 years, his leadership style has gifted him to lovingly embrace the people of God empowering them through the taught and preached word of God. He has been blessed to pastor, First AME Church, Manassas, VA; Faith AME Church in Laurel, MD; and historic Pilgrim AME Church, in Washington, DC.

In May 2018, he was blessed to be named the Pastor of St. Mark AME Church, Virginia Beach, VA where it is his mission to seek the lost, restore hope, and rebuild lives for the kingdom of God.  He looks forwards to the great move of God in the lives of the people of St. Mark -VA Beach and in the community at large.

Reverend Boone has been married to Reverend Melodie Powell Boone, his partner in ministry, for 42 years. They are the proud parents of two amazing sons Brian Joseph and Bryson Donnell. Their three daughters, Nicole Donnell, Alexandra Donnell and Brittany Kiara now reside in heaven;
A man of faith and integrity, Reverend Boone counts it a privilege to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to serve the people of God. He asks for your continued prayers as submits to God, lifts up the name of Jesus, and serves faithfully at St. Mark AME Church.