Pastor the Rev. Ronald Bailey, standing, with some members of the clergy on the Prayer Breakfast.
Photograph by Nelson A. King
Brooklyn’s Plentiful Life Christian Church, an evangelical church on Church Avenue, final Saturday held a really profitable Prayer Breakfast within the Golden Corridor at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church on Hawthorne Road in Brooklyn.
“We’re very glad with the end result of the Prayer Breakfast and look ahead to one other nice occasion subsequent 12 months within the will of our Lord,” the Rev. Ronald Bailey, the church’s Vincentian-born pastor, advised Caribbean Life afterwards. “The Prayer Breakfast of the Plentiful Life Christian Church is among the predominant occasions hosted by our congregation yearly. We think about it our alternative to offer the broader neighborhood with an environment of religious and culinary uplift.
“The emphasis is on prayer to invoke divine consideration within the affairs of our neighborhood, nationwide and world issues, as we subscribe to the idea that the earth is the Lord’s, and He has the ultimate jurisdiction over all human affairs,” he added. “We make it a feast as a result of we noticed within the Outdated Covenant with Israel each main memorial was celebrated as a feast, indicating a singular relationship between meals and worship.”
Pastor Bailey mentioned this 12 months’s occasion was primarily “an in-house celebration”, as all of the worship leaders and particular singing got here from the church’s membership.
The Hills’ Household Singers led the worship and there have been particular renditions by Evangelist Clementina Bailey, the pastor’s spouse.
Rev. Bailey mentioned all catering was finished by church members, who additionally donated meals provides and time to organize such “scrumptious dishes and but have been obtainable to serve our company.”
He mentioned attendance this 12 months comprised many returnees and members from sister church buildings within the Brooklyn neighborhood.
“The one drawback this 12 months was the denial of using our beloved Mates of Crown Heights facility, forcing us to make use of a way more expensive venue,” Pastor Bailey mentioned. “We’ll eternally be grateful to the late Mr. Vaughn Toney (the long-standing, former chief government officer and president of the Mates of Crown Heights Academic Facilities) for being beneficiant to us and a good friend of our congregation.”
Rev. Bailey mentioned some supporting congregations included Bethel Deliverance Gospel Heart, Mt. Calvary Pentecostal Church of God, Attributes of Christ Ministries, Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, Emmaus Neighborhood Church, Bethany Deliverance Church of God, Imaginative and prescient Pentecostal, Reality Heart for Larger Consciousness and Trinity Methodist Church.
The visitor speaker was the Rev. John Jno-Baptiste, a Dominica-born itinerant evangelist. Ministers who provided intercessory prayers have been Apostle Arlene Israel, the Jamaican-born pastor of Bethel Deliverance Gospel Heart; Bishop Vincent Morgan of Life Line Gospel Ministries; Bishop Dr. Allen McGuire, pastor of World Bible Ministries and former Grenada Consul Basic to New York; Vincentian Pastor Simeon King of Mission For God Evangelical Ministries; Bishop Maurice Walker; and Apostle Blake.
Earlier than providing prayers, Apostle Israel urged that the Household Altar be re-instituted within the house.
“If we don’t carry again the Household Altar change won’t ever come,” she warned. “We must always have a spot to wish, and we should pray.
“Brethren, it’s time to worship God; brethren, we’re in perilous occasions,” she added.
In interceding on behalf of the household, Apostle Israel prayed for “the return of the God of Salvation.
“We should repent right this moment,” she prayed. “We acknowledge our transgressions. Assist us to grasp that the prosperity is within the Phrase.
“Mighty God, rework our lives; seize our households; and assist us to stay a righteous life,” Apostle Israel added. “Thanks, Lord, for the house goes to return to what it must be.”
Dr. McGuire mentioned: “It’s time that you just have a look at what’s occurring globally. The Phrase of God says, ‘once you see this stuff, search for.’”
He then prayed for “all of the movers and shakers,” including that “we’ll put individuals in workplace who put God first.”
In his message, Rev. Jno-Baptiste mentioned that “nothing occurs by errors.”
“Jesus mentioned, ‘I can see my father working’”, he added. “It doesn’t matter what you’re going by, God is working Promise, Drawback, Course of, Process, Present – all of the Ps. God makes a promise; he hides himself in an issue; nevertheless, he supplies a process known as a course of that He can discover Him within the Avenue of Goal.
“So, it doesn’t matter what you’re going by, on the finish of all of it, God will present,” Rev. Jno-Baptiste assured.
Bishop Morgan prayed that the spirit of evangelism be returned to the neighborhood.
“The spirit of evangelism must take us over time,” he prayed. “God and Father, we’re thanking you to show issues round
“America wants to return again to Jesus; Brooklyn wants to return again to you,” he added.
