Rev. Dr. Marcus Allen is still new in town.
“I still use the GPS to get around the city,” he says with a laugh. “Some roads I haven’t traveled down there in Madison. Some people I haven’t connected with. And still learning the city.”
Yet in his three years as pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church, one of Madison’s oldest and most storied African American churches, he’s impressed enough of his colleagues that he’s been named president of the African American Council of Churches in Madison (AACCM).