LAUDERHILL – Jamaican born Pastor, Motivational Speaker and Life Coach Reverend Marie Berbick was lately awarded the distinguished President’s Lifetime Achievement Award by the outgoing Joe Biden Administration.
Berbick acquired the respect in individual on Tuesday, January 21 following two days of celebratory festivities on the U.S. Presidential and Leadership Awards Dinner, hosted by the African and Caribbean Worldwide Management Convention. The occasion was held on the Capital Hilton Lodge in Washington, D.C.
Reverend Berbick has accepted an invite from Mr. Oliver Mair, Jamaica’s Consul Basic in Southern USA. She shall be a particular visitor speaker on the motivational occasion referred to as Breakthrough. This occasion shall be held by The Consulate Basic of Jamaica in Miami.
It’s going to happen on Saturday, February 22, from 1 pm to five pm at Victory Place Worldwide Worship Middle in Lauderhill.
President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award was established by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation and is the very best award introduced to civilians by the US President for voluntary service.
It acknowledges people who’ve devoted a minimal of 4,000 hours of extraordinary service to their neighborhood or nation.
Honorees are celebrated for his or her lifelong dedication to constructing stronger, extra compassionate societies by means of management and volunteerism and are acknowledged in numerous fields together with faith, philanthropy , politics and training.
Reverend Berbick’s award salutes her contributions to altering lives by means of ministry, mentorship and girls’s empowerment.
Reflecting on the award, Reverend Berbick expressed her shock and elation that she had been nominated and in the end chosen for the distinguished honor.
“To God be the glory. I’m past honored and really humbled to obtain this distinguished award. I by no means noticed this coming as a result of I don’t do what I do for reward.
That is from my coronary heart. I reside to rework folks’s lives. Now look what the Lord has performed!”
Berbick was very excited to obtain her award with fellow Jamaican artist turned minister, Pastor Tyrone ‘Papa San’ Thompson. He was one in all this yr’s honorees.
“Oh my goodness! To be facet by facet with my fellow Jamaican Papa San and being honored by the President in Washington DC? We’re pleased to point out the world as soon as once more that Jamaicans proceed to shine. We ‘likkle however we tallawah’ in each means.”
Picture courtesy of Marie Berbick Ministries Worldwide
Marie Berbick’s Early Years
Reverend Berbick, who hails from St. Ann, Jamaica, is an alumna of Ferncourt Excessive College, the place she served as head lady. She launched into her profession as a journalist and have become one of many youngest reporters at a nationwide newspaper when she joined the Jamaica Herald on the age of 17.
Her spectacular work earned her two nationwide journalism accolades, together with Jamaica’s inaugural award for on-line journalism in 2008. Subsequently, she shifted her focus to public relations, establishing a thriving PR and communications agency that catered to the Jamaican Authorities, worldwide funding companies, and distinguished non-public sector entities.
The Individuals’s Pastor
Immigrating to america in 2018, Reverend Berbick based Marie Berbick Ministries Worldwide (MBMI) in 2020. Referred to as “The Individuals’s Pastor”, she has constructed an enthusiastic on-line following of almost 100,000, providing inspiring sermons and a instructing and deliverance ministry with quite a few testimonies. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, her Saturday morning broadcasts turned a supply of solace for numerous people grappling with trauma and uncertainty.
By her mentorship program and e-courses, she equips rising leaders and pastors globally, fostering religious resilience and progress.
She can be the founding father of Sisters United for Prayer, Therapeutic, Empowerment & Restoration (SUPHER), a New York based mostly, not-for-profit group. SUPHER is devoted to empowering girls and weak communities worldwide by means of initiatives reminiscent of Save a Sista, the place SUPHER bodily removes girls from home abuse conditions.
Extra initiatives embrace back-to-school drives, free social media administration coaching for ladies and the 2024 introduction of the Nikolai Graham Major Exit Profile (PEP) Scholarship. Annually, a scholarship shall be given to a sixth-grade pupil at Glowell Prep College in Portmore, Jamaica. This pupil should come from a single-income household and need assistance with highschool prices.
Reverend Berbick has acquired the Most Influential Motivator of the Yr Award. This award is given by the Unique Entrepreneurs Basis (EEF). EEF is a global group that acknowledges younger achievers.
Motivational Speaker
A motivational speaker for over 10 years, she is a Les Brown Licensed Legendary Speaker and a member of his speaker’s academy. She shall be showing in that capability at Consul Basic Mair’s inaugural presentation of Breakthrough.
The occasion is free and open to everybody. It was created by Consul Basic Mair. The consulate calls it “An thrilling day of motivation, self-reflection, and empowerment.” The occasion goals to assist attendees reset, refocus, and begin 2025 with a contemporary perspective.
Taking part audio system will enlighten the viewers on matters reminiscent of aim setting, well being and wellness, private growth and religious steering. Berbick, together with all different Breakthrough audio system, may have the chance to reply questions from the viewers following their displays.
Free registration for Breakthrough is obtainable at breakthroughandthrive.eventbrite.com. Info line for the occasion is 954-559-3955.
Victory Place Worldwide Worship Middle is situated at 4806 North College Drive, Lauderhill Florida, 33351.
Reverend Marie Berbick has written 4 books. These embrace the Younger Believer’s Information to Efficient Prayer and Come up.
Her upcoming e book, Baptism of Hearth, is ready to launch shortly. It talks in regards to the challenges she confronted when beginning in ministry. She shares classes that may assist different pastors.
She is the partner of Jamaican gospel artist Robert Bailey and has three sons.
