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I think this is the first time in history that something like this has happened. A father and his son switching churches... 
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Around 2005 a church was born as a result of an evangelistic series called Hope for a Hurting World. This was a joint effort of Co-op City Church, First Ghana Church, Portchester Church, and Morris Park Church who all teamed up to put this series together. Part of this initiative was to have a pre-series. So, my dad, who was the pastor of Co-op City at the time had the young people from his churches along with the young people from Morris Park come together and do a prophecy seminar that would serve as a warm-up series for the main event. Well, I was one of those young preachers who were assigned to preach a few of the nights. I remember at the age of 16/17 preaching my heart out at Briggs Academy. I was walking up and down the aisles of that rented auditorium appealing for people to get baptized. I remember excitingly looking at the decision cards to see that people did in fact decide to get baptized. The whole thing was an energizing moment. At the end of both series a church was planted called Bedford Park Seventh-day Adventist Church.
As I cleaned out my office at Yonkers Church, I nostalgically looked through the church photo album. There I saw a picture of me when I was a child standing on the stage of Yonkers Church holding a microphone. It’s amazing that years later as an adult I would come back to my childhood church to stand in that same spot as their pastor. It was a true privilege.  But I was a bit apprehensive in 2016 when my supervisor asked me if I would like to become the pastor at Yonkers Church.
I took 40 days to go through the entire Bible from start to finish. It was intense, but I wanted to kick off my new ministry in prayer and the Word. The way I did it was by using...
Happy New Year!
One church (one that I don't pastor) asked me for books that I would recommend for their book club so I decided to put together a list of books that I recommend and put it here on my website. The other night I saw that I logged 2,020 hours so far this year.
I keep a work log of the amount of hours I work each day and have a running tally. I do that because I have a tendency to feel like I'm not working enough. So by keeping a log I know when I am doing too little or doing to much. That way when it is time to relax I give myself the permission. So yesterday when the day was over, I added in my hours from the day onto my excel sheet and I saw "2020". At first I was confused because I thought was seeing the year. Then I realized "Oh, that's my total." Haha People ask me "what do pastors do?" To many I guess it seems like we work one day a week. Last month I finished an evangelistic series where teams of two visited contacts in the community.  This series was completely different than others I did in the past...
I’m double my age!
I was 16 years old when I got baptized. Today marks 16 years since that day. The amount of years I have lived unbaptized I have lived as a baptized individual. Many think they are born in a church, but we all must be born again. I think about the events that led to my baptism. At rock bottom, a new life was born. As I look through these past 16 years, I think about the ups and downs in my walk with God.  I have been preaching seriously since the age of 16. I have preached many sermons. Once I even preached daily for 90 days straight. But in terms of recording a sermon and having it posted online I finally reached 100 sermons that are featured on my YouTube channel. I should have recorded more, but 4 years ago I started uploading sermons. I downloaded some of my sermons from the Livestream website that Jackson Heights was using. I then had it re-uploaded now to YouTube. I have always had mixed feelings about Livestreaming. I didn’t like Livestreaming at first because I rather have people there in person. I rather have things archived in case people miss, want to re-watch, or want to share that sermon with someone else. My fear has always been that people would just stay home because they can watch the service online
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