Sunday September 1, 2013 @ 4:00 pm

Keith Holley is the Senior Pastor of EL SHADDAI Temple of Jesus Christ in Joppatown Maryland. Pastor Keith founded the Church with his late wife Julia in November of 2001. Pastor Keith has been preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ for over thirty years. Pastor Keith served in many capacities under Bishop Rodgers Cofield, at St. John Apostolic Church, Baltimore Maryland. Pastor Holley received a Masters Degree of Divinity from Family Bible College and Seminary.

Pastor Keith was born in Harford County. and raised between Baltimore and Harford County by his mother Barbra Holley and step father Charles Lee. He presently resides in Harford County with his wife Saundra Morgan Holley together they both serve Greater Manifestation Worship and Praise Ministry and ELSHADDAI Temple. They have two daughters and sons in-law Nicole and Ronald and Erika and Juan. They also have three grand Children. Pastor Keith is a retired Postal Carrier with the Baltimore Postal Service. Not only did he deliver the mail but God has him delivering the word of God. Finally Pastor Keith has experienced pain and loss. But he has discovered that your trials are not just for you but for you to help and comfort others by the same comfort you have received. One of Pastor Holley’s favorite scriptures is 1 Thessalonians 5:18 “…in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you”

Sunday September 8, 2013 @ 4:00 pm

Best known as: Leading Lady and Founder of God’s Word Will and Way Ministries

Pastor Joyce Robin Jones was born in Brunswick County, North Carolina.  She received the Lord as her personal Savior and was baptized at the age of 11 at Gaston Baptist Church in North Carolina.  Pastor Jones accepted the call to preach the Word of God on April 28, 1993. While preaching the word, Pastor Jones taught Sunday school classes, led a prison ministry to persons incarcerated in correctional facilities in the State of Maryland, and served on numerous choir ministries.

Pastor Jones spiritually led by youth had a desire to expand her technological knowledge. With that knowledge, Pastor Jones received two degrees from Philadelphia Bible Institute College.  She earned an Associate of Arts Degree in Bible Studies and a Bachelor’s in Theology. God gave her a vision two years ago to start a ministry, she shared the vision with her husband and together they are moving to make the vision a reality. God has blessed both of them and the ministry is growing.                           

Pastor Jones has been married to Tyrone Phillip Jones, Sr. for over 25 years and together they have two sons- Tyrone Phillip Jones, Jr. and Isaiah Jones and reside in Baltimore, Maryland. Pastor Jones has many scriptures that she dwells on, but her favorite scripture is Psalm 121:1-2“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.”

There are other things Pastor Jones continues to seek in the Kingdom of God in her walk with Christ. She is not finished. Her work for the Kingdom of God continues.

Sunday September 15, 2013 @ 11:00 am

Bishop Gerald A. Edwards was born the sixth of seven children in a small town in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina to Roger and Beatrice Edwards.  In 1976 he joined Friendship Ministries Inc., formerly known as Second Friendship Baptist Church, where he put his hand to the plow and worked in many areas of the ministry.   It is here where he established a relationship with the Lord and was given the gift of the Holy Spirit. He studied at the feet of two great men of God, the late Reverend Isaiah Jackson and the Late Elder Abraham Houston.

1982 was a pivotal year in his life, the year that he answered the call to the ministry. He worked in ministry along side Elder Abraham Houston until the Lord called Pastor Houston home.  It was then that God elevated him to the office of Pastor in 1986.  Pastoring Friendship Ministries has been a rewarding experience working with the wonderful people at Friendship. Although there have been mountains as well as valleys the journey has been worth it.  He gives total credit and praise to God for all his accomplishments.  But his ultimate goal is to hear the Lord say, “Well done thy good and faithful servant.”

Sunday September 22, 2013 @ 4:00 pm

Pastor Rodney host an Internet/TV broadcast entitled, “Encounter with God,” that helps believers live the extraordinary life in God. He has also authored three mini books: (“Praying and Getting Results”, “Tithe-Covenant Responsibility”, “The Needful Thing” and two soon to be released books “Now Faith Journey and the “Trust Factor; The Key to Prospering”)

Pastor Rodney is the President of the newly formed Harvest Vocational Bible Institute (HVBI) which is a Bible Institute designed to provide minister training, bible courses to the community and seminars to help churches grow their ministries in technology and administration.
Pastor Rodney and NaTasha are assisted by an anointed ministry of helps staff who meet the needs of God’s people. Pastor Rodney & NaTasha have a lovely daughter, Ariel.

Sunday September 29, 2013 @ 4:00 pm

Mark R. Nolan is the anointed Pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church in Bel Air, Maryland. Educated in the Baltimore and Harford Counties schools, and is a graduate of the Northfield University. He is the eighth child of Betty P. Nolan and the late Raymond H.C. Nolan. Mark accepted Christ as his personal Savior at the age of eleven. Pastor Nolan's ministry began on the second Sunday in March of 1977 at the Mount Zion A.M.E. Church in Long Green, Maryland, under the pastorate of the Reverend James C. Stewart. Since then, he has served under seven pastors in three churches. Mark joined the New Hope Baptist Church in February of 1993 under the late Pastor Charles E. Copeland.

     He was ordained in the A.M.E. Church at the age of eighteen and later in the Baptist Church. Pastor Nolan was blessed to meet and marry the former Tawana Rochelle Copeland on May 4, 1991. To that great union of love, God has blessed them with three beautiful children; Amaris Talia, Israel Eugene and Elon La'El. Along with serving the New Hope family, Pastor Nolan also serves the larger community in several capacities. Pastor has been a part of the Ad-Hoc Committee of the Harford County Board of Education, worked with Habitat for Humanity and served as President of the Harford and Cecil Counties Ministerial Alliance. He is currently the Recording Secretary of the United Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of Maryland. Pastor Nolan has served the New Hope Ministries for almost fifteen years as God's messenger. He has watched the Lord speak and perform miracles that are undeniable.

          Pastor Nolan's desire is to so teach the Word that all should come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.