As African-People rejoice Black Historical past Month in February, a Vincentian-born, Brooklyn-based veteran pastor says she stays “optimistic and robust,” regardless of myriad challenges.
“From the yr of 1990, once I answered the decision of God to begin the ministry of Religion Deliverance Pentecostal Church of God (FAITHPCOG), my mindset or emotions stay the identical optimistic and robust,” the Rev. Dr. Neithe Soleyn, FAITHPCOG’s founder and senior pastor on the Flatlands Avenue church in Brooklyn, advised Caribbean Life on Saturday. “The zeal for God’s imaginative and prescient is as clear, shiny, and stands quick in my spirit and life from since I started to now. I honor the Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
“Within the very starting, my want has been to win many souls to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to see many individuals heal from their hurts by preaching, educating God’s Phrase in crusades, open-air conferences, and private soul-winning,” added Pastor Soleyn, who can also be the founding father of N. Soleyn Outreach Bible Seminary. “The very first campaign that was held in 1991, we noticed the crippled stroll, one lady completely blind obtained her sight the Sunday morning.
“Different occasions, mentally disturbed, deaf and extra have been healed; demons forged out of individuals,” continued Dr. Soleyn, a former administrator and professor at New York Theological Seminary. “Previous to the pandemic, two aged members have been healed from deafness. Individuals are recipients of God’s divine therapeutic. as they arrive believing in Jesus’ title.”
Along with the primary FAITHPCOG, at 5601 Flatlands Ave., Brooklyn, she stated ministries have been additionally birthed in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and in St. Albans, Queens.
“I’ve undergone a number of onerous trials till today, however, by all of it, I by no means felt discouraged in giving up the pastoral ministry,” stated Rev. Soleyn, the creator of “Hit Arduous, Rating Excessive, Triumphant Over Arduous Trials: How To Be Completely happy, Wealthy and Wholesome.” “Once I hear individuals say all pastors undergo discouragement, I can’t lie on myself. I don’t give in to the assaults of the enemy.
“I take care of my scenario with trusting God’s Phrase, however not giving up within the midst of adversity,” she added. “The reward and the glory are to our God. Nonetheless, I shall be keen to cross the baton to the following soldier that God will select, if the Lord tarries, and I’m alive.”
From the very graduation of her ministry, Pastor Soleyn, a former public faculty trainer in New York, stated profitable souls and educating brethren the right way to win souls have been FAITHPCOG’s continued mission.
She stated many souls have been saved and lots of joined the church within the early years on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.
Because the church grew, she stated numerous youths joined, fed the homeless and served the group with dry and cooked meals.
However, in about 2011, Dr. Soleyn – who earned a Grasp’s in Divinity from New York Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in Theology from Worldwide Theological Seminary in California — stated there was a declined in grownup membership.
“We couldn’t get funds to proceed a constructing,” she stated. “These have been my phrases from God’s written Phrase: ‘The victory shouldn’t be received by many.’ I refused to offer in and trusted God to offer us a sanctuary.
“After we moved to a small place for worship, the variety of youths decreased, however we continued the imaginative and prescient for the souls of males and youth,” she added.
In the course of the pandemic, Rev. Soleyn stated FAITHPCOG’s membership fell by about half. However she stated she by no means relented in “the battle for looking for individuals’s lives to be modified for a greater life right here and eternally by Christ Jesus.”
She stated FAITHPCOG’s fellowship continued on Zoom and was restored in particular person in July 2020.
Pastor Soleyn stated she felt the decision of God to distribute presents to kids at Christmas and known as it “1000 Kids Restoration Christmas Presents.”
Since 2021, Pastor Soleyn stated the Lord has restored new and lively members, who’re finishing up the church’s imaginative and prescient.
She stated she based a Bible Seminary, licensed by New York State in 2020, during which she stated she’s “seeing fruits” from studying.
She stated the church’s youth group, with its choir. has returned, “though not massive in quantity, however very grateful and excited in regards to the dad and mom sending and bringing their kids.”
“We’re making a robust enchantment for the household, single, married and non-married to return and convey your loved ones to be blessed by God and have God’s safety,” Pastor Soleyn stated. “The world could be very harmful; don’t wait.”
She stated she has ministered in over two dozen church buildings within the US, together with Preparation Church of God Holliness; Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church of God; Grace Deliverance Church of God; Mt. Olive Church of God; World Harvest Church of God; New Rochelle Church of God; Full Gospel Tabernacle; Worship Middle Church of God; Religion Tabernacle Church of God and Mount Olive Pentecostal Church of God.
Pastor Soleyn stated she is celebrating this yr her 51st yr in ministry and 40 years of pastoral duties.
She stated she has served for nearly 34 years as pastor in FAITHDPCOG, together with six-plus years as pastor of New Testomony Church of God within the US and in her native St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and “pioneered” a number of church buildings for New Testomony Church of God in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
She stated the N. Soleyn Outreach Bible Seminary is accepting functions for the spring semester, beginning in March, and that coaching shall be for certificates and diplomas in discipleship, missionary, ministry and deaconess.
Dr. Soleyn stated her imaginative and prescient for FAITHDPCOG is seeing “the souls of males saved and to heal their hurts in bringing to God by Christ and within the church.”
She stated amongst her targets and targets are to increase the preaching ministry of the Gospel of Christ on tv and radio by August 2024; to coach not less than 300 disciples for Jesus Christ in N. Soleyn Outreach Bible Seminary; to have not less than 100 youths in ministry by end-2024, “with males and girls missionary teams profitable males and all individuals to Christ”; to construct small models that can home members who discover issue with housing; and “to hope and hunt down academic assist for immigrants who’ve been within the USA to obtain everlasting standing.”
“All the things was and is by God’s love, mercy and style,” Pastor Soleyn stated. “I couldn’t do something with out God.”
For extra info, name Pastor Soleyn at (347) 440-2101; or church secretary at (347) 267-1516.
