Rev. Lawrence Craig, third from left; Pastor the Rev. Roger Jackson, fourth from left; First Girl, Sis. Kim Jackson, fifth from left; Sis. Herline Florival, organist; and a few members of FSUMC Males’s Group after Worship Service.
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The United Methodist Males (UMM) at Fenimore Road United Methodist Church (FSUMC) in Brooklyn on Sunday, Sept. 21, celebrated what they described as a really profitable “Males’s Day” throughout the church’s Worship Service.
“It was a properly thought-out, executed, and impressed Worship Service,” FSUMC Pastor, the Rev. Roger Jackson, advised Caribbean Life afterwards.
“I am trying ahead to seeing the continued development and participation of the boys in all areas of the ministry life at Fenimore,” he added.
The 2-hour service featured lofty singing by the Males’s Reward Group, the Males’s Choral, and the congregation, in addition to a soul-inspiring rendition by Bro. Edward Hyde, a Jamaican-born UMM member.
Earlier than delivering his sermon on “We’re our Brother’s Keeper,” the theme of the celebration, visitor preacher, the Rev. Lawrence L. Craig, Jr., displayed his musical reward by enjoying the piano and singing “You Gained’t Go away Right here Like You Got here in Jesus Title.”
Rev. Jackson famous that “Rev. Craig felt it vital and essential to remind us, and for us to remind one another by reciting that, ‘I am a miracle, and I consider in miracles daily as a result of the God I serve makes a speciality of making a manner out of no manner.’”
Rev. Craig used John 20 19-31 as the muse textual content of his proclamation.
He first identified that Jesus’ tomb is open, and that the brothers within the textual content are in the home behind a locked door.
Rev. Craig stated the brothers then left for the tomb of Jesus and “have entered into their very own tombs of worry.”
Given the worldwide establishment, Rev. Craig requested the boys on the 134-year-old church, on the nook of Fenimore Road and Rogers Avenue: “How are we dwelling? Are we preserving our brothers within the freedom and pleasure of the resurrection, or are we preserving our brothers behind locked doorways?”
Rev. Craig reiterated the theological reality that Jesus has and can at all times come to unlock the bodily, psychological, emotional, or non secular doorways.
“Jesus steps into these closed locations in life that males don’t speak about with resurrection energy,” he preached. “This makes it potential for us to open our hearts to newness of life by way of Jesus Christ.”
In closing, Rev. Lawrence recited a number of verses of songs that talk to “the enjoyment and love which can be in us, in order that, as our brother’s keeper, we will be at peace and prolong peace to one another.
“If it’s so, then we will be our brother’s keeper,” he stated.
Extra about Rev. Craig
Rev. Lawrence L. Craig, Jr. obtained his name to ministry in 1975. October 2025 will mark his fiftieth 12 months in ministry.
From his humble beginnings, serving as affiliate pastor below the administrations of his father, the late Rev. Dr. Lawrence L. Craig, Sr., in Cleveland, OH, East St. Louis, IL, and Chicago, IL, this fourth-generation preacher born into the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has grow to be a extremely sought-after speaker, singer, and preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
His household legacy is steeped in dynamic males of God. The late Rt. Rev. Elisha P. Murchison, former Senior Bishop of the CME Church, appointed Rev. Craig to function his govt administrative assistant of youth affairs and actions for the denomination.
On the earth of music, Rev. Craig has made a reputation for himself as “America’s Versatile Baritone,” acting on main live performance, opera, and recital levels worldwide, together with a latest operatic live performance tour of Hong Kong, Macau, and Beijing, China as a member of the Dame Alice S. Kandell Camerata, that includes a lead-off live performance by operatic famous person Placido Domingo.
Rev. Craig’s voice has been featured in numerous genres, together with on Broadway, within the Emmy Award-winning PBS KIDS tv collection Peg + Cat, the NYC seventy fifth Anniversary Live performance to honor Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and as a visitor soloist for the New York live performance to honor former President Barack Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize.
