Free Methodist
Church of Muskegon
The Reverend Donald M. Zimmerman is Pastor of First Free Methodist Church of Muskegon, Michigan. He is appointed by the North Michigan Conference to the evangelization of the whole Muskegon community. In this capacity, he provides vision, leadership, and mission direction to a congregation of 125 people in developing ministries designed to reach the population with the gospel. They seek nothing less than the healing of mind, body, and soul of all who come under their care.
Pastor Zimmerman was baptized in Phoenix, Arizona on November 12, 1961. After being called of God for missionary service, he was received into the Pacific Northwest Conference as a traveling preacher in July 1964. He was ordained by the Arizona-Southern California Conference as Deacon in June 1966 and as Elder in March 1969. He was commissioned as a regularly appointed missionary by the General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church of North America in April 1966. He was endorsed by the United Methodist Division of Chaplains and commissioned a Chaplain in the United States Air Force in January 1976 where he served 20 years on active duty until retirement in February 1996.
Pastor Zimmerman and his wife Ann Marie, a retired educator, are both natives of Michigan. They have three married children—Lieutenant Colonel Donald Zimmerman, PhD who is a command pilot and Associate Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado; Karen Sumpter, wife of Colonel (Sel.) Dr. Wayne Sumpter who is a flight surgeon at Offutt AFB, Nebraska; and Robert Zimmerman who is a Project Civil Engineer in Omaha, Nebraska. The Zimmerman's have 7 grandchildren.