Biography of Allen Palmeri:
Allen M. Palmeri is associate editor for The Pathway, the official newsjournal of the Missouri Baptist Convention, Jefferson City. His MBC tenure will be 8 years as of March 1. He was licensed to the Gospel Ministry in the early 1990s at Pass Road Baptist Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, by the late Bro. Edgar Jackson.
Palmeri was previously editor of Sharing the VICTORY, the magazine of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Kansas City, before coming on staff with the MBC in March of 2003.
Prior to being called into full-time writing ministry, Palmeri served as a media missionary. He worked on newspaper staffs in Battle Creek, Mich. (5 years), Biloxi, Miss. (4 years) and Cheyenne, Wyo. (2 years) as a sportswriter, sports copy editor, news copy editor and assistant news editor. He also co-wrote an award-winning column for Sports Spectrum magazine.
Palmeri, who was born on an Air Force base in Albany, Ga., grew up in Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
Palmeri and his wife, Susan, have four children, Amy, Asa, David and Sophia. He is a deacon at Concord Baptist Church, Jefferson City, where he previously served one year as a deacon officer (secretary) with election to the same post in 2011. His focus at the church has been as a founding leader of Celebrate Recovery since 2006, serving as ministry leader of the weekly community outreach since February 2008.