Reverend Marie Berbick, a Jamaican-born pastor, motivational speaker, and life coach, was not too long ago awarded the prestigious President’s Lifetime Achievement Award by the outgoing Joe Biden Administration.
Berbick obtained the dignity in particular person on Tuesday, Jan. 21, following two days of celebratory festivities on the U.S. Presidential and Management Awards Dinner hosted by the African and Caribbean Worldwide Management Convention. The occasion was held on the iconic Capital Hilton Resort in Washington, D.C.
Reverend Berbick has now accepted an official invitation from Jamaica’s Consul Normal, Southern USA, Mr. Oliver Mair, to be a particular visitor speaker on the motivational occasion Breakthrough, to happen underneath the auspices of The Consulate Normal of Jamaica in Miami, Florida. The occasion will happen on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 1 p.m. to five p.m. at Victory Place Worldwide Worship Middle in Lauderhill, Florida.
The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award was established by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation and is the very best award offered to civilians by the US President for voluntary service. It acknowledges people who’ve devoted a minimum of 4,000 hours of extraordinary service to their group 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 schooling.
Reverend Berbick’s award salutes her contributions to altering lives by means of ministry, mentorship, and ladies’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 celebrated honor.
“To God be the glory. I’m past honored and actually 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. I do it from my coronary heart. I reside to rework individuals’s lives. Now look what the Lord has finished!”
Berbick was additionally particularly excited to obtain her award alongside fellow Jamaican musical artiste turned minister Pastor Tyrone’ Papa San’ Thompson, who was amongst 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 glad to point out the world as soon as once more that Jamaicans proceed to shine. We ‘likkle, however we tallawah’ in each approach.”
Born in St. Ann Jamaica, Reverend Berbick is a previous scholar of Ferncourt Excessive Faculty, the place she was head woman. She started her skilled journey as a journalist, changing into one of many youngest reporters at a nationwide newspaper when the Jamaica Herald employed her on the age of 17. She went on to win two nationwide journalism awards, together with Jamaica’s first-ever award for on-line journalism in 2008. She later transitioned into public relations, managing a profitable PR and communications enterprise that served the Jamaican Authorities, worldwide donor funding businesses, and main non-public sector organizations.
Reverend Berbick immigrated to the US in 2018 and based Marie Berbick Ministries Worldwide (MBMI) in 2020. Referred to as “The Individuals’s Pastor,” she has constructed an enthusiastic on-line following of practically 100,000, providing inspiring sermons and a educating 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.
Via her mentorship program and e-courses, she equips rising leaders and pastors globally, fostering non secular resilience and progress.
She can also be the founding father of Sisters United for Prayer, Therapeutic, Empowerment & Restoration (SUPHER), a New York-based, not-for-profit group. SUPHER is devoted to empowering girls and susceptible communities worldwide by means of initiatives similar to Save a Sista, the place SUPHER bodily removes girls from home abuse conditions. Extra initiatives embody back-to-school drives, free social media administration coaching for ladies, and the 2024 Nikolai Graham Major Exit Profile (PEP) Scholarship introduction.
The scholarship can be awarded yearly to a Grade 6 scholar at Glowell Prep Faculty in Portmore, Jamaica, who comes from a single-income family and requires monetary support for highschool bills.
Reverend Berbick’s achievements have been beforehand acknowledged with the Most Influential Motivator of the Yr Award by the Unique Entrepreneurs Basis (EEF), a world group highlighting younger achievers.
She has been a motivational speaker for over 10 years, is a Les Brown Licensed Legendary Speaker, and is a member of his speaker’s academy. She’s going to seem in that capability at Consul Normal Mair’s inaugural presentation of Breakthrough.
The occasion, which is free and open to the general public, is Mr. Mair’s brainchild and is described by the consulate as “an thrilling day of motivation, self-reflection and empowerment designed to supply attendees the chance to reset, refocus and achieve an enhanced begin to 2025.” Taking part audio system will enlighten the viewers on aim setting, well being and wellness, private improvement, and non secular steering. Berbick, together with all different Breakthrough audio system, may have the chance to reply questions from the viewers following their shows.
Free registration for Breakthrough is accessible at breakthroughandthrive.eventbrite.com. The data line for the occasion is 954-559-3955.
Victory Place Worldwide Worship Middle is positioned at 4806 North College Drive, Lauderhill, Florida, 33351.
Reverend Berbick can also be the creator of 4 books, together with Younger Believer’s Information to Efficient Prayer, Come up, and the soon-to-be-released Baptism of Fireplace. These books talk about the challenges she skilled upon getting into the ministry and the teachings she has discovered that may assist different pastors.
She is married to Jamaican worldwide gospel singer Robert Bailey and is the mom of three boys.
