President's Day w/Bishop Devin Pickett

[Music] so [Music] you brought me through this okay you brought me through that lord i'm grateful for [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh day [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] off yeah oh [Music] yes you did you brought me [Music] yes [Music] amen praise god [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah thank you lord god [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] so much better [Music] thank you thank you [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] down down [Music] down down [Music] down [Music] down run down [Applause] [Music] is [Music] down down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] um [Music] hey yeah [Music] every day [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] me [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] i [Music] god [Music] god [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] i [Music] my everyday [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] and i won't somewhere [Music] i've been hey [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] human life [Music] is [Music] [Music] he's my friend [Music] for me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] nobody [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] no [Music] no oh [Music] uh [Music] i need to know that god is able to do as simply and abundantly [Music] all right [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] oh [Music] nobody [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh nobody can do us like jesus nobody can do us like jesus we are having holy convocation this is the final day of the 127th session of the southern district holy convocation and we have had church this week praise the lord at this time we will have our processional [Music] these are our department heads the pres the bcs superintendent of the southern district elder tyrone owens the president of the ypha southern district elder joseph barnes the president of our ushers department deacon michael stevens [Music] our program participants [Music] our district elders [Music] so [Music] the board of presbytery our chairperson elder joseph williams our vice chair elder ralph love jr [Music] [Music] our board of elders [Music] our chairperson bishop russell rogers [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i will elect ladies of the southern district convocation on my right [Music] we have our first assistant to the president dr christopher brown jr [Music] let's give him a hand [Music] now we will have the presiding prelate of the southern district convocation we ask everyone to please stand to receive none other than bishop devin c pickett senior let's give him [Music] district convocation [Music] bishop devin c pickett [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] me [Music] me [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the bible declared ye shall have a holy convocation [Music] [Music] do [Music] the lord is in this holy temple that all the earth keeps silently for him i was glad when he said unto me let us go into the house of the lord come on let's lift our hands together give god some praise as we enter [Applause] to this worship experience we will now have our opening selection by the choir [Music] we asked of us she was counting balance out so we can keep our social distance up with the cdc send some people on the my right and your left [Music] good morning everyone our morning hymn is going to be on the screen if you all would sing with us you can sing or even you can stand and sing with us blessed [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] this is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] god [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] this is my story [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] a blessing it is to know what a blessing it is to know [Music] what a blessing it is to know hallelujah at this time we're going to reaffirm our faith we believe in the father who is god almighty we believe in the son who is jesus christ god's only begotten son [Music] we believe that jesus was sent to reveal god to man via god's will to man we believe in the holy spirit holy ghost who was sent from god the father and the son we believe that the word of god was given my inspiration through holy man we believe that the union of the father son and holy ghost is revealed through his church we believe that christ is coming back for his holy church without spot or wrinkle that without holiness is spirit soul and body no man shall see the lord [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we are united [Applause] [Music] whose hearts have never been [Music] is [Music] we are united [Music] oh [Music] please [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and together [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah our morning scripture lesson will be given to us by elder stanley day fall in prayer by elder anthony flow will you remain standing till both are completed morning scripture will be coming from the book of jeremiah chapter 51. we begin reading at verse 47. it reads therefore behold the days come that i will do judgment upon the graven images of babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her then the heaven and the earth and all that is therein shall sing for babylon for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north saith the lord as babylon hath caused the slain of israel to fall so that so at babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still remember the lord are far off and let jerusalem come into your mind we are confounded because we have heard reproach shame hath covered our faces for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the lord's house wherefore behold the days come saith the lord that i will do judgment upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded shall groan though babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify the height of her strength yet from me shall spoilers come unto her saith the lord jeremiah chapter 51 verse 47 through 47-53 god's blessed word for his blessed people let us pray what a friend we have in jesus all our sins and grief to bear what a privilege it is to carry everything to god in prayer our father in our goddess again that we are blessed with the opportunity to approach your throne of grace first of all to say thank you you've been so good to us thank you god for waking us up this morning thank you father for a reasonable portion of life health and for strength thank you god that we are clothed in our right minds we ask now god that as we come into your service as we come into this sanctuary god that we will come with a praise on our lips knowing god that we could not have done it without you we pray now god that you will continue to bless our leadership god we ask now a special blessing for the man of god that has to stand in the gap between us and thee and declare your word strengthen his body right now in the name of jesus speak god to his mind into his soul god he might be able to stand under the anointing of the holy ghost and declare your word use him now god for your glory god if you do it we'll be so careful to give your name to praise and then god help him uh as he lead these your people hurting your word that you said to joshua so i'll be with you as i was with moses god we ask now that you lead him as he lead us god into the promise bless us in a special way god and god if you do these things we'll be so careful to give your name to praise the glory and the honor belongs to you in jesus holy name we pray [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] hallelujah you may be seated in the presence of the lord we'd like to take this opportunity to thank god for you coming and to greet you and give you this personal welcome to just let go and let god have his way you may be sitting beside somebody that you don't know you may be sitting beside a stranger and i know that we uh have got to abide by cdc guidelines and keep your mass on please keep your mass on look at your neighbor's neighbor keep it on but we want to still enjoy jesus this morning you know you can obey rules and steal and have a good time hallelujah we want you to enjoy yourself but let's abide by cdc rules keep our mass on keep your hands to yourself this time keep your hands to yourself that's right that's right i remember when i was a little boy mama you said you keep your hands to yourself we need to abide by our cdc rules we want to leave convocation in the same spirit of love in which we have come god bless you that was my i'd like to say thank god for uh all of you here and we give honor to uh president let's give him my hand this morning the right reverend bishop devin c pickett come on we can do better than that we can do better than that come on let's stand to our feet and celebrate alpha zeit and brittany [Music] he has worked hard and uh i don't know if you only a leader knows that you have to have some good planning in order to have a successful meeting and we thank god for the hard planning the late nights he's called he called late night now bishop pickett stays up late now he's a one or two o'clock man in the morning going to bed so if you get an uh email or text late at night you don't have to answer them to the next morning but you know he's still up but we thank god for his hard work and it's all playing to our leia's ambitious bishop ernestine harper mcgee and bishop ross roger let's get a man to my good friend and brother that we grew up in the same home church together my grandfather was his pastor and i still love him bishop clifton buckler until bishop larry dudley and and to all the other visiting bishops and apostles let's get the man [Applause] we thank god for you you and you and we want you to let go and let god have his way come on let's welcome this choir back with another selection at this time southern district ensemble come on let's give them a man as they come so [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] one of oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] all day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] and i stayed all day [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you gotta keep yourself [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] we gotta keep [Music] [Music] [Music] you got to keep [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] moving [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] just keep on pressing [Music] you got to keep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah [Music] hallelujah [Music] i wonder how i got in the finals in here i wonder have i got any fighters in here hallelujah to know you got to keep on fighting [Music] too many dangers cars and snaps have already come and if god go with me i'm ready to go on a little tour can i get a witness this morning can i get a witness this morning hallelujah [Music] [Music] come on y'all come on come on play [Music] so [Music] hi uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can't give up [Music] [Music] don't give up [Music] so [Music] ah yeah [Music] oh come on come on you wanna break [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] come on [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so all right [Music] hallelujah hallelujah thank god thank god for that porn of his holy spirit yes siloam your son hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] praise them if you want to hallelujah [Music] crazy [Music] so [Music] oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Music] holy spirit hallelujah in this place this morning you want to feel a little better you ought to feel a little better [Music] hallelujah hallelujah thank god thank god we want to take hallelujah [Music] we certainly want to take this opportunity [Music] [Music] so [Music] bye [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] thank god thank god hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Music] it's in the house he's in the house [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] come on bless him yes come on bless the lord now i know some of you are still sitting yes but if you just put your hand up towards your mask and just blow in it the world said let everything everything praise the lord if you're breathing this morning stand on your feet come on and praise god let everything everything everything hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] it's not preaching time but god's been too good to us for us to come in here and just sit yeah but you ought to have a praise on the inside tell somebody he's been good to me he's been good to me tell somebody he's been good to me he's been good to me and since i know he's been good i'm gonna just praise him while i can hallelujah and give god [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] yeah became depressed but tell somebody my deliverance is in the house tell somebody my breakthrough is right here come on praise him for your breakthrough come on praise him for your breakthrough come on please [Music] hallelujah [Music] crazy [Music] oh yeah [Music] hallelujah do the best you can but you ought to praise him this morning [Music] the praises go up blessings come down come on and praise him this morning [Music] hallelujah you may be seated if you can hallelujah hallelujah yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord [Music] hallelujah hallelujah he's in the room whatever you need he's in the room he's in the room whatever you need right now he's in the room [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] whatever you need [Music] hallelujah [Music] oh yeah hallelujah suddenly we give honor to god for the opponent of his holy spirit hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank god thank god thank god hallelujah we want to take this opportunity to honor our bishops wives and heal those wives come on let's give them a hand all our bishop and elders was come on let's give him my hand god bless you hallelujah we like to say a special thank you to our former vice president's wife that's here bishop quincy gardner elder sister lenoir gardner come on let's give god some praise for sister god and we thank god for our being in the midst yes hallelujah hallelujah come on come on come on come on help him praise him there's a word for the house come on come on hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah holiday we have plenty come on come on come on put your hands together put your hands together come on come on come on speak lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah have your way god have your way have your way god have your way hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on hallelujah you have your way lord have your weight loss have your weight loss hallelujah hallelujah yes i got it have you with god everywhere here we go here yes come on come on come on let's help him get that breakthrough come on have your way lord have your way lord have your weight on hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah yes sir yes sir lord yes sir yes sir lord yes our lord yes yes lord yes lor oh yeah yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes allah yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord come on put those hands together let's give god some praise hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah there's always time for god to speak in our minds always time hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we have plenty of registration backs packets in the back that you generate if you would please as a souvenir this convocation stop by the dish and register hallelujah hallelujah come on let's give god some more praise there's a sweet spirit in this place and i don't know what you're going through but you need to apply some faith to god's promise whatever god has promised you let your faith say yes lord let your faith right now say yes lord lift your hands by faith and say yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah thank you so god service is the hand of elder richard dawn for our morning convocation [Music] spirit of the lord is in this place [Music] and we knew it we are in holy convocation the choir got a message over to us and the message is we are in a real war we are on a spiritual battlefield but they encourage us through the message you fight on you fight on they let us know the battlefield gonna get hot don't give up in the battle fight on put your hands together for the lord we are so happy to have our queen with us this morning our southern district queen better stand up and greet us look at that look at that give us that wave come on out there let us see you come on around here let us see you this is our queen our southern district queen miss leo henning from the wilson district southern district queen thank you so much give her another hand [Applause] we're here to receive our convocation offering and while we are making ready to do that we ask our ushers to pass out the envelopes so that you can be preparing yourself to let sow into the life of our leader we want to bless them real good today our pastors are already writing checks and they're getting their monies together our pastors our elders who got ordained last night and owned and our ministers of the southern district convocation all us as members we are making preparation our leaders up here has already given the money is already in place for our bishops offering amen so we're making ready now to uh give our convocation offering we want to do this expeditiously amen which means efficient and in order is that all right so what time is it it is offering time in the temple those who are following us on live stream and i the numbers are great uh you're following us by thousands on the line and we are asking you to continue to give with us as you have all week cash out dollar sign sdc temple giveaway and you can call in 919 751-0029 [Music] shall we pray eternal god our heavenly father we want to thank you for what you have allowed us to see this week we thank you lord for the outpouring of your holy spirit in our midst we thank you lord for touching hearts have laid that spirit of giving inside of each one of us now lord we pray that you will bless the gift that we're about to give on today that we multiply and go a long way in kingdom building in jesus name amen into the hands of our ushers amen we ask that if you're going to give in the bishops offering and i hope that everyone will if you have an envelope please do not lick the envelope just let it close amen amen also if you don't see the bishops and some of the district elders paying they have already paid out for the week they paid out 1 574 that's right and i'd like to thank them because they're close to 30 thousand dollars come on and give them a hand all right if you're going to be using a credit card i ask that you get up and come now don't wait to your road come out just come up here now and we can get finished with y'all quicker while we're here to take up uh the offering zone today we're going to ask to help the uh finance committee and when you bring your monies please don't ball and fold your money's up at this time i might ask everyone on my far right if you please stand face to wall begin from the rear everybody in this back section if you were please stand turn to your right turn to your right begin from the rear everybody on this side my father please stand face your wall begin from the rear this back section here if you will please stand turn to your left begin from the rear everybody else please stand face to center owl and bring your monies thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah thank you so much yeah [Music] thank you thank you thank you thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you so much thank you for all you do [Music] can't make it without you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you thank you [Music] thank you so much [Music] you are given freely and you are given largely thank you so much thank you thank you [Music] thank you thank you [Music] thank you thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you so much [Music] thank you thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you and you'll give it largely thank you thank you for your support thank you for supporting the southern dignity convocation [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you so much [Music] [Music] thank you thank you thank you thank you this is the time and space that we've been waiting for we've been waiting to sow into the life of our leader first assistant brown told us this morning how hard he labored stay up late at night until early in the morning they are discussing plans to move the southern district convocation forward very hard worker a giver we see him in the sub-districts visiting us all throughout the year in our unions and our yphas we want to show him today tell somebody we want to show him we want to show him this morning in the way of giving how much we appreciate what he's doing the bible tells us that those who labor in the gospel worthy of double honor somebody said double honor and it told us to don't hold back that which is good from those whom it's due when it's opportunity to give like we're getting ready to do now let us do what we're supposed to do tell somebody it's right to do right love is often time spoken very easily to be written but it's best when it's shown i have my three hundred dollars that i'm gonna sow into his life i'm happy to sow it there the more i sow seem like the more come back to me uh i need to say that one more time i hope nobody don't take this the wrong way but the more i sow the more come back to me and i've got more to give on the next time let's do it like this we want all of those who are making your contribution by way of credit debit card we want you to come on up and line up on this side over here on my right to make everything go smoothly and elder tyrone oren will take care of you those who are live streaming with us continue the process in which you have been doing all week long let's sow into the life of our leader and our great friend we want every one of our pastors our ordained elders we want you to stand up now we want the congregation to see you as leaders to give the late dr martin king jr papa king preached a sermon over 40 years ago entitled the high cost of leadership leadership comes with a price not only with finance but your time and your labor it comes with a price we want our pastors our elders our ministers to come and give then we're going to turn into the hands of our worship those who are given by well credit and debit cards line up over here on this side right here come on out and give yeah that's just going to help you out yeah those who out there in the best of you ushers please take care of those people sitting out there go to these offices and get that money we want everybody giving ushers how about lead them out on this side our pastors and our leaders one our leader i want y'all to see our leaders yeah my 300. that is right now yeah look at that give my leaders a hand as they go by yeah they're showing us that they'll give their first partakers amen uh elder lewis i know that's 300 right there thank you sir thank you sir thank you ma'am thank you ma'am thank you ma'am and then we want to say uh all year long you've been given and we appreciate it those thousand dollars that you brought up here to the temple we want to say thank you thank you so much yeah y'all are soared into the life of our leader um god be the glory yeah yeah look at our leaders she's our leaders look at them they're giving they're setting an example saying this is what you do this is what you do thank you thank you thank you so much yeah this is what you do we appreciate you yeah yeah yes uh yeah they're giving some of that anniversary money what they done got thank you lord hey hallelujah yeah oh bless his name thank you lord yeah our ministers come on and give yeah yeah thank you so much we got great leaders in the southern district and they're obedient not one frowned on me when i ask them to stand and come thank you so much thank you so much thank you thank you thank you we wanted heart to feel good good good good he's a giver himself evangelistic department evangelism department two hundred dollars two hundred dollars any other department wants to give please let's do so thank you thank you thank you ushers send your hand give us instructions what you want us to do choir 300 southern district choir give him a hand mission department bishop magee just told me 300 dollars adjectives are getting their moneys together on behalf of the byu convention superintendent owens deacon stevenson with us is joe barnes with ypha we bless our bishop today with 300.00 amen partnership lucas just told me 300 thank you as heather barnes has said the three department heads elder owens er barnes and myself dick and stevens here's my 300 as well that's what i'm talking about uh at this time we're going to follow the same procedures as before we're going to ask everyone to please stand and please bring your monies thank you thank you [Music] our leaders this is our leader yeah let's show up with love thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you live streaming thank you yeah our adjutants has given an offering of 660 dollars god be the [Music] there glory no failure [Music] thank you so much [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how uh bishop garrick johnson he left a hundred dollars bishop greg hargreaves left fifty dollars bishop larry dudley two hundred dollars [Music] let's give them a hand [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] stand on his promises [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there is [Music] [Music] god knows i know that's right there is no failure in god everything we've asked for all week long god has given to us in the southern district y'all tell somebody there is no failure in god we thank god for all of our leaders who have freely give again bishop larry dudley gave his 200 dollars bishop clifton buckram have sown into the life of our president as well along with our bishops amen to god be the glory again thank you so much for what you have done today and all week long in convocation offerings and in our speaker's offering and especially this morning in our bishops offering we're making ready now to turn it back into the hands of our most capable leader amen first assistant dr christopher c brown thank you for all you do we pray that god will bless each of you real good back to your hands give them a hand as we come [Music] sister holland is coming with our announcements oh these are your announcements first lady of mount pleasant snow hill north carolina dr carol bizzell and family would like to thank all churches pastors bishops and everyone for your prayers the love shown her and her family and gifts given to the bizzell family during the passing of their beloved husband father elder james biselle and the entire church family persons interested in being an adjutant in the southern district are asked to see dr dwight morrissey and or elder tonya ham those persons interested in becoming a part of the southern district evangelism department should see elder shirley cox or elder reggie silver at one of the tables out in the lobby representation is needed in all eight sub-districts cds and dvds are being sold in the lobby cds are six dollars dvds are twelve dollars please see elder demarcus face and love in the lobby after service the southern district president bishop devon c pickett senior will be the guest speaker at the goldsboro raleigh assembly october 22nd 2021 in their seven o'clock worship service the southern district convocation ensemble will accompany him to render the music and the southern district ushers will be on duty saint delight and adjutants okay sanction light united holy church wishes to announce the 14th anniversary celebration of their pastor bishop devon c pickett october 15 through and the 17th friday night october 15th 7 o'clock pastor elijah rouse destiny impact kingston north carolina and on october 17th which is sunday afternoon elder irvin lathan mount calvary united holy church washington north carolina will be our guest free black mass will be given out from the secretary's office today for anyone who have who has not received one immediately following the morning service remember if you have already received a mask please don't come by the secretary's office we want to ensure that we have enough mass for those individuals who have not yet received one the mask all week have been donated by dr timothy moore pastor of greater wall town in durham north carolina the 45th general holy convocation will take place october 4th through the 8th 2021 at our headquarters in greensboro north carolina carolina dr brian mcknight will be the monday night speaker elder joseph robinson and our own elder cathy batts pastor of new stoney hill will be the guest speakers on tuesday night wednesday afternoon which is women's day at 1 30 bishop earnest team mcgee the president of our home and foreign missionary department will be the speaker and afterwards there will be a luncheon honoring her service on wednesday night wright reverend gregory hargrave will be the speaker on thursday night right reverend kenneth white will be the speaker and as thursday night and on friday night it will end with the most reverend harry elkhorn when you depart the sanctuary today please look around for your belongings and uh we ask that your seat mates help you look for your things so that we don't leave things we do have a bible in the office if you have misplaced yours please stop by these are your announcements we thank god for our announcements let us govern ourselves according it's word time it's word time [Applause] bishop devon c pickett senior is the son of the late oscar k pickett senior and therma wooden picket of maple hill north carolina he was called to preach at the age of nine and preach this initial summer on august of 1997 doing a revival at maple hill united holy church maple hill north carolina at saint paul united whole church maple hill knockout he received his first ministerial license at the age of 11 from the southern district convocation he received his first pastoral appointment in september of 99 at the age of 22. after faith and dedicated service within the carolinas district subdivision and the southern district convocation he was appointed as district elder in september of 98. bishop piglet is currently passing saint john united holy church in burghard north carolina and saint celite in that holy church in lagrange north carolina he has pastor for 32 years and in those years he has pastored the following churches gethsemane united holy church hamster north carolina tabernacle homeless church whiteville and saint matthew berger north carolina for 19 years he served as a district elder of a southern district convocation and a member of the board of presbytery where he served as chairman for 10 years bishoprican has served the fallen positions in the united holy church international before reading for the reunification of the united holy church of america in 2000 vice president of the general ypha department southern district field worker carolina district ypha president vice president of the carolina district union and he served on numerous communities within the district bishop pickett is known for his entire dedication faithful service wisdom and humble of ominous of spirit the lord has anointed and blessed bishop tremendously to preach in many places preaching in south africa south africa one of his greatest experiences through his preaching and teaching many lives have been changed and touched he enjoys preaching and teaching the gospel mr pickett believes that there that one must treat others right it is the right thing to do and that you never know whom help you may need along the way he is a 1986 graduate of pinder high school bergo north carolina in 1987 he graduated from harris barber college in raleigh north carolina in 1991 he graduated from united christian college goldsboro north carolina where he received a bachelor of theology degree in may of 2013 bishop pickett was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from united christian college for his heart and faithfulness and dedication and loyalty within the southern district convocation of the united holy church of america in 2016 bishop pickett senior was elected as vice president of the southern district convocation and in 2017 he became he was elected he was bishop elect you know church of america bishop was consecrated as bishop of may 2018 in all holy church of america bishop pickett was elevated to the vice president position of the sudden district convocation due to the death of the vice president in january 2019 february 2020 due to the death of our president bishop picker was elevated to the position of president of the southern district convocation on march 20 21. at the bishop council young holy church of america bishop pickett was elected to serve on the general board of bishops of the united holy church of america he was married to the lovely elder sharon mcallister pickett formerly of durham north carolina since march 21 1992 they have three children devin junior davieva and davion the family currently resides in princeton north carolina bishop pickett is saved sanctified filled with the holy ghost and term and determined to serve god with all of his hearts there are many things i could say about him personally but all you need to know this morning that he is truly a man of god god has elevated him to this position as president of the southern district this will be his central first official message as our president printed we ask you that you open your hearts and minds to receive the word i ask everybody in the audience to stand as he comes to this podium my brothers and my sisters i present to you and introduced to others the president of the southern district congregation the right reverend bishop devin c picker after the choir this ensemble has given us a song of their choosing opposition pillar is coming let us all stand and receive him when he comes god bless you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you are [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] you i was [Music] declan [Music] you know [Music] oh [Music] [Music] you know [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] holy beauty [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with the beauty oh your holy lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] and i adore you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for you [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nations [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you are [Music] me [Music] let us pray kind father in the name of jesus it is again that i stand before your people to minister your word which is good news and glad tidings i pray now god for fresh anointing upon me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet i ask that you speak over my lips of clay the words that you would have me to say to your people and then lord give me them receptive hearts to receive the word and whatever shall be accomplished i shall take no credit but give you all praise glory and honor for it is your name i pray amen you may be seated holy are you lord can you just put your hands together and give god some praise holy are you lord to first assistant dr christopher brown to our general president bishop harrielle cohen in his absence to our liaison bishops bishop mcgee and bishop rogers to our visiting bishops president of the southern district henderson bishop clifton buckrum to bishop larry dudley to prophet ronald myers to our father dr w.c elliott to our mother dr dorothy green district elders board of elders board of presbyterian trustees bishops wives pastors wives and widows department leaders adjutants sd ensemble southern district ushers to musicians to the administration entire administration to our facebook viewers and our youtube viewers and two two churches that i serve as pastor that i love dearly saint john united holy church burghard saint delight united holy church lagrange to my godmother if she's watching and two my family my wife elder sharon pickett who i call my queen she's just stand [Applause] to my children devin jr who's on the organ [Applause] to my daughter and son-in-law david ava and pastor brent murphy and to davion my son [Applause] and to all of my family from the maple hill community amen i know there in the house somewhere and to all of you it is good to be in the house of the lord today this week has been a tough week as we dedicated this convocation to our late bishop ralph it would love come on give it up for amen [Applause] who led us from 1996 until february of 2021. it has been a rough week but it's been a glorious and joyous week as i reflected back on my parents and i thought about them and i said i know my mom and dad is looking down and they would be proud of what the lord has done i've never really thought about them as much as i have this week because they carried me to convocation when i should have been in school elementary school i was at convocation y'all and so i've been in attending the southern district convocation basically all my life and when i look at what the lord has brought me from i can't help but give him praise [Applause] not a crying person don't do a lot of crying but i could because he's been good to me better to me than i've been to myself i played convocation told somebody this week me and my nephew and cousins we had eight days of convocation all in one day but never did i think that i would be where i am today i owe it all to the lord [Applause] so many preachers have preached here behind this podium this week there's not a whole lot that i can say that you haven't already heard and i've stood behind this podium several times but when i look out there and see all of you makes me a little nervous and i often time tell the preachers that i serve when they talk to me that there's not a time that i don't get up that i'm not nervous but with the help of god i have a word to give to you our thing says pressing forward in difficult times from jeremiah 51 and 50. my text today shall be taken from james chapter 1 verses 2 through 4. and also psalms 27 and 13. if you stand for the reading of the texts and it reads my brethren counted all joy when ye fall into diverse temptation knowing this that the trying of your faith work is patient but let patients have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing psalms 27 and 13 says i had fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living i had fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living i want to talk today briefly from the subject faith to see beyond difficulties faith to see beyond difficulties you may be seated when circumstances look bleak how can we trust god that has a plan for our lives there are times when we feel as if our circumstances will never change we are unable to see beyond the crisis troubles problems or inactivities in our lives we desperately look for a sign or message that tells us that everything will be all right that things will improve and get better but i believe in the midst of difficult times all you need to know is that god has a good plan for our lives we often times when things are not going our way we tend to search for answers and solutions hoping that our future will be better in our than our presence when the iras were displaced in a foreign country against their will they did just yet they hoped for better exiled in babylon from their home and place of worship everything was strange to the irelis food was strange landscape and culture and traditions were strange the people felt defeated and depressed and they desperately turned to their religious leader for a message of hope israel was told they would return quickly to their homeland but this was not true because it gave them some type of false hope but then the prophet jeremiah began instructing the people to engage in their new environment and seek the well-being of the city they were going to be there a long time but he said blessings would soon be coming their way for the scripture says for i know the plans i have for you declares the lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a future hope and a future god was turning their situation into an opportunity of faith personal and growth seeing beyond difficult times takes faith and hope life doesn't come without ups and downs but when our faith is in jesus christ we can see beyond life difficulties anybody know what i'm talking about one of the greatest temptations of life is to come to absorb in our circumstances there are people whose visions are turned totally inward and they can never see beyond their particular circumstances whenever we look at our circumstances we end up in despair disillusion all of this occurs when we focus on our circumstance rather than through the eyes of faith seeing beyond our difficulty when we look at seeing beyond seeing beyond has been defined as to imagine to perceive or anticipate seeing beyond difficulties it's simply having the ability or capability to visualize and imagine yourself coming out of what you are going through right now having faith in christ would cause our perception to change while experiencing difficulties in our lives that's why i said faith amen to see beyond amen our difficulties because when we have faith in god it allows our perception to change of our circumstances anybody know what i'm talking about you've been sick the doctors have told you they couldn't do you any good but because you had faith in god your perception of your condition didn't stop you from seeing amen your healing your deliverance your breakthrough and so this morning i say faith to see beyond your circumstances this morning this afternoon it's imperative that we as believers are able to see beyond difficult times because if we are unable to see beyond difficult times then what we see in the natural amen will block our view of what god has promised us in our in his word when we are unable to see beyond the problem it also says something about our relationship with christ because he tells us to walk by faith and not by sight and i'm certain today that a lot of us have walked by sight but i come to challenge you this morning to follow the word of god start walking by faith and not by sight and then you can see amen beyond your difficulties amen we must never allow the enemy to cause us to lose our spiritual sight when our faith is weak it causes us to not have hope and vision to see beyond the difficulty hebrews 11 and 1 says faith is being sure of what we hope for it is being sure of what we do not see so today if you have faith tell somebody i can see beyond my difficulties amen i'm so glad today amen to know that christ has made it possible for us to see beyond our difficulties you pray with me in a little while and won't be out of your way too many of us we're trying to see without faith and when we don't have faith then we're trying to see amen we tend to try a man to solve our own problems we tend to try to come up with solutions that we will never be able to come up with but i stand to let you know today that the lord said you need faith in order to see beyond the difficulties each of us today have difficulties in our lives but i want to let you know that jesus died on the cross amen he provided a way that we could be able to see beyond our difficulty and if the truth be told right now there are a lot of us in here today that we have difficulties in our lives but i want to let you know that you can see beyond those difficulties somebody said thank you lord well in our text amen james begins with the command he indicates that there's something that we should be doing something that you and i as believers should be doing amen the implication is that we are not doing it right now but that we should start doing it amen and that when we start we ought to continue to do it well preacher what is it that james wants us to do james said we are to begin considering something in a different way than what we have in the past in other words you've been letting your problems get the best of you you've been letting all your troubles get you down you've been letting the enemy tell you that you can't make it amen but i come to let you know amen that james said considered all joy when you fall into diverse temptation somebody said thank you lord amen we are commanded to begin considering our trials as reasons for all our joy in other words all our trials they are all unpleasant difficult troubles we may encounter a reason for our joy in other words we are not getting joy because we have them but in the midst of all our triumphs in the midst of all our difficulties he said consider it all joy in other words he tells us that we should not complain about our troubles or consider them as mixed up blessings but we should consider our difficulties as reason to rejoice let us note here that it is our christian faith that god is testing in this text to see if our faith is genuine because sometimes we profess that we have faith in god but we do more complaining and murmuring about what we're going through but here god is trying to test our faith to see if our faith is really rooted in him so god he allows troubles in our lives as a test to demonstrate our faith so when you and i pass the test it produces patience in us it produces endurance in us and allows us to see beyond our difficulty no matter what it looks like no matter what people say but when you are able i said when you were able to pass the test god said count it all joy somebody said thank you lord i wonder this afternoon is there anybody in the building today that you know for a fact that you've had some trials some tribulations but james they counted all joy now the reason why some of us we cannot count our trials as joy is because our relationship is not as we say it is but when you have faith in jesus he will allow you to have joy in the midst of your troubles in the midst of your difficulties he'll give you joy he will allow you to see beyond somebody said i can see beyond my difficulties somebody said i can see the breaking of day [Music] you pray with me i'm just about to get out of here but i come to let you know today that the lord say faith to see beyond the difficulties so i encourage you today to grab hold of faith and see beyond your difficulties well in the song that i read the psalmist was meditating upon his circumstances he remembered the moments when roaring waters of troubles poured upon him in staggering torrence he remembered days when his enemies came upon him like a tidal wave leaving him sinking in the rushing waters of defeat he didn't notice on so many occasions how the wicked were elevated into the throne of prosperity while the righteous was seemingly to be all trodden down but yet in the midst of it all huh amen he said in the midst of my circumstances amen the psalmist cried out he said i have fainted unless i believe to see the goodness of the lord so i stopped by this afternoon huh to tell somebody that in the midst of your troubles in the midst of your difficulties you got to be able to cry out like the psalmist that i have fainted lest i have believed to see the goodness of the lord somebody said gloria somebody said glory well what the writer was saying huh he was simply saying that it don't mean that i'm going to collapse but rather it means that if i had not seen the goodness of the lord spiritually i would have collapsed i would have lost my courage i would have lost my spirit huh but i would have have been into a state of dejection hustle but because i saw through the eyes of faith the goodness of the lord i can see how beyond my situation um i can see i'm beyond my difficulties huh i'm so glad i said i'm so glad that i can see how beyond my difficulties if the devil had had his way up he would kill all of us up when we get sick he would make us quit up and throw in the towel but i'm so glad that i can say i just like the psalmist that i oh lord i have painted us lest i be bluff to see the goodness of the lord touch your neighbor above your neighborhood and say faith my difficulties i got to get out of here but i'm so glad i said i'm so glad that i learned them to count it all joy i learned how to count it all joy when it looked bad when it looked rough when the devil said i'm not going to make it happen i learned how to count it all joy and i want to encourage you today to look beyond your difficulties how you gonna do it through the eyes of faith somebody said faith somebody said faith faith will help you see beyond your difficulties you need uh to take the blinders off of we have a whole of faith and when you get fade you can see the breaking up day when you have faith you can see your way out and is there anybody today that you can see that i'm coming out somebody said i'm coming out with my hands up lift it up [Music] oh yeah i'm coming out with my hands huh lift it up somebody said faith deceiving you on her my different cultures up man problems huh find out your problem hustle when you have faith you can see beyond it and james said count it all count it all [Music] somebody said john somebody said joy i got to get out of here but i'm so glad i felt i'm so glad i'm so glad that i can see myself coming out of my situation huh can you see yourself coming out of your situation huh so what james said in the midst of your troubles huh in the midst of your try yourself he's that counting of joy jimmy said let patience have a perfect work because when you go through your situation huh you will come out better better better than you were before huh i got to get out of here huh but count it all your house count it all your husband the songwriter said keep looking beyond your troubles huh keep looking beyond your troubles huh and driver all the cares of everyday life keep looking up beyond all your grief keep looking up beyond huh is there anybody that looking up beyond your difficult health is there anybody huh you're looking [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody say yeah [Applause] somebody said yes somebody said yes i'm reminded i'm reminded of so many who went on before us some of us we wish that they were still here but they lived they lived to go up to a better place and so i want to let you know that even though you may be going through her god said i'll give you joy while you're going through huh i'll give you a song just sing in the midst of your troubles huh and i want to let you know how to play to see how beyond your difficulties when you got faith deceiving on your difficulty you can pressure you can pressure you can preach up [Music] [Applause] somebody said glorious somebody said gloria somebody said glory i found him to be a doctor i found him up to be a lawyer [Music] my bridge over troubled water he is my healer yes yes [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now some of you may not have moved but tell somebody i got faith i may be going through right now but i see myself coming out of what i mean i see the break of day you ought to just leap for joy you ought to delete blood leak for your blessings leak for your breakthrough lean hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on praise him you don't know it may be your last time you ought to give god some glory while you're here tell your neighbor i got to give him some glory it may be my last time but while i'm here i'm gonna give him glory [Music] ain't no harm to places [Music] so [Music] so [Music] do [Music] oh clap your hands come on clap your hands [Music] [Music] okay [Music] yes [Music] big man come on clap your hands tell somebody i see his goodness tell somebody i see his goodness [Music] hey man thomas said i had fainted lest i believe to see the goodness of the lord hallelujah [Music] so i see beyond my difficulty faith to see beyond difficulties you can't see beyond it without faith but with faith no matter what you come in contact or encounter you'll be able to see your way out no matter what kind of report you get it may not look like it's changing but tell somebody my report is changing because my face [Music] my face says i'm coming out hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we're getting ready to pray there may be somebody in the building today you're not saved you've been having a lot of difficulties in your life you get out of one thing and you're back into another but this morning i offer today i offer you jesus if you don't know the lord then you're gonna always be stuck and overwhelmed by your difficulties but when you come to jesus and give your heart to jesus and believe in him and continue to trust him every trouble and trial you have god to show you that you're gonna come out [Music] all right is there anybody that's been in some trouble and some some trials and god brought you out and you know whether nobody but god [Music] it wasn't your education it wasn't your money but it was god that brought you out so today if you're unsafe we got enough space down here at the altar that if you don't know jesus that you don't have to leave here like you came but you can come to jesus today i offer jesus to you song said i won't leave here like i came in jesus name [Music] i won't leave you like i came in jesus name for the power of the lord is still the [Music] i same leave here like i came in jesus name [Music] oh i won't leave here like i came in jesus name [Music] i won't leave you like i came in jesus name for the power of the lord is still the same [Music] oh i won't leave here like i came in jesus name kind father in the name of jesus we bless your name today for your word we thank you lord for your holy spirit that's been poured out in this place somebody came today burdened down depressed came sick lame but lord we thank you because your presence is here that they don't have to leave here like they came and so god right now we just say thank you for all your blessings and god we pray right now that those who are listening to my voice god that you would touch them perhaps there's somebody god that wanted to come but did not come up god they they don't know you as lord and savior but god i pray that something have been said to cause them to come out of darkness into the marvelous light and so god right now we pray god that you would touch your heart touch your mind renew their spirit let them know that they're loved and god we thank you now for all that you've done all that you're doing and all you're going to do and god we give praise and thanks to your name for it is in jesus name i pray amen [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] to cry [Music] to you oh my brother father god in the name of jesus [Music] because she had faith in you believed that by her coming that you would make a change that she wouldn't leave here like she came and so god we know that you know all that transpired before she got in the service and so god right now we pray that you touch her in the name of jesus increase our faith help her to know that all things as well and that god [Music] that everything is going to be all right god we thank you lord for the victory and we decreed by faith in jesus name jesus name amen come on if you believe y'all clap [Music] [Applause] [Music] whatever you need today [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to cry come to him [Music] oh [Music] he will give you [Music] if you bear with us [Music] he's waiting on you today [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we don't want you to leave we don't want you to leave we have some appointments to to take to give out and disappointment it's a certificate of appointment the united holy church of america incorporated southern district goldsboro this is to certify that elder kenneth grave has been duly appointed to the position of trustee of the southern district convocation of the united holy church of america disappointment is made by the business of the southerners convocation and continues for an indefinite period so long as your life and practices are in harmony with the gospel of jesus christ and your dignity and loyalty to the board of trustees lies within the southern district convocation and leadership should any sign of disloyalty appear disappointment shall be revoked given 26th day of september 2021 president devin c pickett secretary nan harlan elder kenneth gray amen we'll give him a minute he's when he comes in we call the next one certificate of appointment to the board of trustees elder ronnie lewis you call me how the gray is coming get our bishops we have one more that was appointed we have to get this certificate mate made up deacon philip hassell if he's in the building he can come on up we will get that certificate to him he's coming and while he's coming we appointed also minister roy spells on yesterday to the borders trustees and minister spells he can come on up as well he's been leading praise and worship amen when mr spells comes in okay we will get go back this is certificate of appointment to certify that minister bernard cannon has been duly appointed to the position of pastor at the lawson chapel united holy church of america in kinston north carolina and this appointment is being made by the bishops of the southern district and first assistant and on the 26th day of september 2021 minister cannon took ill and so i don't think he's here okay he's here amen he's coming up amen i know he's been sick amen thank you now minister keller before you leave amen one of the things when i was told when i first started passing in 1989 is to go there and love the people we're in the hearts of the people you win the hearts of the people they will support you in every way they can but if you go there and try to be their boss and not be their leaders that's not going to be good and so today we are sending you there to be the pastor their leaders not their boss but their leaders so you love them and they will love you back and remember that this church you're being appointed to you didn't have it before yes sir and so we have a pastor's covenant that says that uh you are in agreeance that you will not in any way engage in any action or conduct account consciousness countenance consult or conspire with any other person in attempting to take this church from the southern district amen so we want you to go by the secretary's desk and sign this covenant sheet and so we say congratulations [Applause] certificate of appointment this is certified that elder william ragland union has been duly appointed to the position of pastor of holy trinity united holy church of america in greenville north carolina now elder reglan finch you're falling behind i'll pass president pre-lay one of the things he always said is what do you have and so you didn't have holy trinity at first so now we are supporting you as pastor of holy trinity you to go there love the people work with the people you're not to be their boss they're a dictator but you to love the people everything might not go your way but if you love them they'll support you and so i say to you go there be a good pastor we're in the heart of the people and i believe you'll do well at holy trinity all right god bless [Applause] this certificate is certified that elder daiquan dean has been duly appointed to the position of palestine it belt the united holy church kindly north carolina other deans will say congratulations to you you are now being appointed to bethlehem you're a young man you're going there you have some young people and as i've said to the other go there and love the people get in their hearts and they will support you you're a young man and when we're young we have a lot of ideals and sometimes we have to remember that we have some old folks in the church and so as a person that started passing at the age of 22. i say go there and love the people work with the people and you'll find out that if you work with them love them they will support you and be there for you you're not to be their boss but their leader everything won't go your way but don't throw in the towel just look beyond see beyond the difficulty and if you take faith and look beyond your difficulties the lord will let you see the day break amen god bless you this certificate of appointment is to elder james d morrison being appointed as pastor of the mount oliver united holy church of america in mountainsville virginia amen out of morrison i know he was here earlier amen he's he's he stepped down man his district elder is here if he's not here just scattered we have him come up disregard anthony love [Music] um this certificate appointment is certified that elder judy everton has been duly appointed to the position of pastor of the central heights united holy church in goldsboro north carolina ellie elberton say congratulations to you and i believe if you go there and love the people that was there before you got there i believe that things will work out all right and if you continue to be that holy and saved woman that you are i believe everything will be all right [Applause] this certificate is the certified that elder cath the best has been duly appointed to the position of pastor of the new stony hill united holy church goldsboro [Applause] help i want to say congratulations to you you're falling behind someone who was a walking book someone who knew the united holy church very well someone who taught the people that he passed you're going behind your godfather who was there for 50 some years and i want to say he may have been your godfather but pastoring because you have already passed it you know things may not go your way every time but love the people that's there and remember that he was there 50 some years so every now and then they might remind you of what he used to do but you remember that you are being appointed as the pastor so we're sending you there as the pastor he's no longer with us but when the pastor have served for a long period of time members will always remind you and refer to them what they used to do but you seek god for a vision for new stonehill and god will give you a vision as he gave him a vision to stay there as long as he did god bless you and i believe you love them [Applause] this certificate is certified that minister annie moore has been dually appointed to the position of pastor of the true light united holy church kinston north carolina [Applause] mr moore i want to say congratulations to you you've been there for two years carrying on that church we're someone we love dearly elder robert staton or served you worked well with him and you've been carrying the church on you to continue to carry on the duty of a pastor continue to love the people they love you because they let us know in so many words ain't nobody else you know we gonna support her so we're appointing you as pastor now that you have this certificate of appointment we don't want you to get so holy holy ghost filled that you say well we're not large we're going to take the church out we want you to keep the church in keep working try to grow your church seek god for a vision and i believe if you love the people and seek god for a vision you will continue to be a good leader god bless you [Applause] this certificate is the certified dead elder adrian grande has been duly appointed to the board of press material the southern district convocation [Applause] i'd like to say congratulations elder may god continue to bless you and continue to work on that board i love that board and i believe you will impact that board of presbytery and i know you're chairman he's proud to have you on the board god [Applause] this certificate of appointment is to elder beulah p frazier being appointed to the board of presbyterian give us a few more minutes congratulations elder frazier may god bless you continue to work and serve on that board god bless you [Applause] this certificate of appointment is to uh elder larry mclean being appointed to the board of elders of the southern district [Applause] god bless you thank you congratulations to you this certificate is to elder ralph lawrence being appointed to the board of elders congratulations this is certified that elder gasps are rich being appointed to the board of elders from the gate field district congratulations elder continue to work and not only work but continue to support the southern district convocation and i believe you will god [Applause] appointed to the board of elders clinton district district elder anthony flow congratulations on the floor may god bless you elder richard darden being appointed to the board of elders eastern district [Applause] elder charlie williams is not here we're going to give his certificate of appointment to the board of elders to uh bishop ernest team again [Applause] this certificate of appointment is to elder kenneth dixon being appointed as to the position of district elder of the katrina district of the united holy church i think he was here but now we give these appointments they need to be in here unless you've contacted us and told us that you were sick or you had an emergency my line is accountability and so we want to start out like we can hold out amen this certificate is appointed uh this man here christ have mercy certified at joseph barnes being appointed to position of district elder of the cape field district congratulations this is the certified that elder modricus edwards has been duly appointed to the position of just out of the wilson district god bless you we're going to ask minister roy spell to come up we would get the certificate to him and i don't think elder jackson patrick jackson is in congratulations to you we will get you your certificate this flight is being presented to elder joseph mo elmore in recognition of your years of dedicated service to the southern district convocation as a member of the board of presbyterian and pastor we do hereby acknowledge your retirement this 26th day of september 2021 and elder joseph moore served well on the board of presbytery and he served well the evergreen united holy church in salem bird north carolina and so at this time he's going to receive his flight by way of phone and we want to give way for him to have remarks at this time elder moore you may speak my tv is behind everything but i do thank god for what he has done thank god for the search that he allowed me to do thank god for everything that he's doing even in our life to god be the glory thank all of you bye all right amen we love you this flight is awarded and presented to elder raymond bullock in recognition of your years of dedicated service to the southern district convocation as a member of the board of elders and pastor we do hereby acknowledge your retirement this 26th day of september september 2021 and if the district elder or family member is here from uh el bullock's family we ask them to come and receive the plaque for elder raymond bullock just killed the fellow ground and also being appointed as supply pastor to the walters chapel united holy church hollister north carolina heals the elder teddy cook elder cook was here with us on yesterday but he uh took sick and so he's not here on today but he's being appointed as supply pastor to walter staple united holy church in hollister north carolina and so we let's give ourselves a hand and we will give the district elder elder kenneth dixon also like to to take this opportunity to thank everybody who have been with us this week uh want to let you know that on yesterday we had our rally and we still we didn't quite reach our goal and as we've been doing in the past we've been trying to get your help on uh with our rally on sunday as well and so before we leave we would ask that you would um so seed want to let you know we will let you know what why we need what we need and at this time we will get asked elder patricia clifton to come amen and we have to get her certificate to her she's being appointed as pastor of the mount hebron church in lewisburg north carolina she's following elder raymond bullock you've already been serving as faster helping your pastor out continue to do what you're doing and love the people and they will get with you and support you god bless you thank you i would ask that you sign the covenant sheep at the secretary of the jazz and we will get your certificate to you we pledge on uh during our rally uh on our state of the district report on tuesday we let you know that we were gonna be under two million dollars on by saturday well we did our part and for some reason another the banker didn't want to work with us but they told us it would be monday so i stand to let you know that come monday our mortgage loan will be under 2 million dollars [Applause] also another one of our loans that we have we will be paying it off as well [Applause] so if you give we can pay off stuff if you don't give we can't pay it off and so thank you for your giving uh that you've given to us and if you give us about five out of five minutes we're gonna ask brother dre waters if he's inside brother dre waters we're gonna give him five minutes to make a presentation we don't want to hold you alone and then we're gonna and then we're gonna take our seed offering and we don't want you to leave out he's coming praise the lord give yourselves a hand happiness being awesome to god be all the glory i'd like to thank bishop devin piggy for giving this opportunity to speak and reference to what we have here reference to the technology some of you guys are probably being wondering what these are and by the way i'm andrea drew waters i'm pastor thelma water son and deacon brady waters out of cooper's champion at holidays church down in clinton north carolina or clinton for some of you all right now can we say order i believe in doing things in order period so first thing i did i started at home i got this technology and i gave it to my moms and my pops and this is nasa-based technology it's been certified in fda certified labs military grade and cdc labs dr deborah birch came on with us back in march we've been blessing and opening up a lot of schools a lot of churches and allowing them to be able to function with these viruses can we say order you got to do things in order so i went there and then i went down to clinton district union where the pastor anthony flo was hosting in district of dr l demarcy there as well and we had the technology there during the clinton district union so because i didn't feel i took it down there the first night that friday night and then i left it because i didn't feel good taking it with me and then something was to happen that would that blood would have been required on my hands can we say order so i didn't stop there so i believe in flowing by the holy spirit period so monday i think it was or sunday i went to visit my mother and pop down in clinton north carolina and that monday moms got up and i was like mom are you headed she said i'm heading to the convocation the southern district convocation and the holy spirit said move so i did what exactly then obedient to the holy spirit so when i got here the holy spirit told me the next night as i was seeing what was going on i'm very grateful for dr devin pickett and doctor and excuse me he's an only big doctor right devin pig prophesizing here and dr chris brown for their leadership let's give it up for him i've seen both of these gentlemen over the years i travel i do a lot of business all over the country and i'm international at times as well and i've seen them throughout the years being very committed to the southern district convocations and their various churches in their districts as well so it's well deserved so where they stand and where they sit and i thank god for order can we say order and i've seen order here to god be all the glory so it's monday night i don't know about 12 30 1 o'clock it was in the midnight hour well the holy spirit said you're going to bless then gift the southern district convocation you're going to start with the leadership and that's exactly what i did anyone got a calculator i want somebody with a calculator in their hands because we're talking about giving we're talking about what giving i believe in giving so the holy spirit i told those of these gentlemen here that the holy spirit told me to give them these right here which is 129 and it's 145 to get it to your door say give both of them one but we didn't stop there the state-of-the-art air surface pro that you've seen out there that covers 2 000 square foot that's sitting right here in the pool pit he said give them those as well you still got your calculators now god gets all the glory now i don't get any glory here let's overstand that now those are 14.99 and there's about sixteen hundred dollars given to your door so i gifted both of these gentlemen one for their families because you gotta protect your leadership it's one thing to say you believe in your leadership it's another thing to put it into action so i believe in action can you say order so from there with these two gentlemen here i dedicated one to the love temple as well so we're talking three times 1600 right y'all still doing the math it's about giving and not just talking about it and bishop harry cohen he stopped through the table i think it was on friday saturday night and he's an entrepreneur and two i appreciate the dedication of this one to bishop raphael can you get up a bishop raph love and bishop ralph love was an entrepreneur can we say entrepreneur i was talking to [Music] bishop ravlov jr a few moments ago and i said how long was bishop ralph love in business he said at least 40 some years we need more business owners and entrepreneurs period so we can help move the needle forward and i thank god for bishop devon he's a business owner he's an entrepreneur he cut hair for years his own business everybody understand what i'm saying now before i close our help is vitally important if you don't have your help you don't have no will i have six children and 10 grandchildren my oldest is 33 years young and i'm 25. you all got that now i've been in wellness 30 plus years my mother passed a thermal waters walks about every other day four and a half miles on the track and she'd be 73 i believe december the 5th so we got to get our health in order family you need to know your blood types and you should be eating according to your blood types can we say order we got to take care of our temples diabetes is the number one kill in the african-american community guys so we got to take care of our health the anointing that's on our lives the power of god the gifts we got to pass that on so i'm back here at this table here i have i don't have any more of these left but they're on the way and they left in there and i'm doing them for 100 instead of 145. in the larger units that's right here instead of the 1600 i'm doing it for 1200 for the southern district convocation because i believe in order and if you guys can do me one favor as i close out if you can repeat after me as long as i know god knows god knows that's more than enough that's more than enough one more time long as i know long i know and god knows god knows that's more than enough give yourselves a hand that's my time thank you bishop here you go dr brown at this time after our resolution of thanks we receive our seed offering and we will let you out at this time dr yolanda williams is coming to give us our resolution of thanks amen to god be the behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity psalm 133-1 and this is our resolution of thanks whereas the southern district 127th holy convocation convened september 19th through the 26th 2021 at love temple in goldsboro north carolina utilizing the theme pressing forward in difficult times scriptural reference jeremiah 51 and 50. we would first like to show our appreciation for our presiding prelate bishop devon c pickett senior our vice president and first assistant to the bishop dr christopher brown our liaison bishops bishop ernest mcgee and bishop russell rogers we thank them for their sacrificial work outstanding leadership concern wisdom and dedication to make this southern district holy convocation a great success to the most reverend harrielle cohen your oversight and support does not go unnoticed we are so appreciative for you to represent the united holy church of america to our beautiful beautiful elect ladies elder sharon pickett elder diana brown i want you to know that we honor you for your devotion to god and to your husbands thank you for not only shining bright like diamonds but for embracing god's designs for your lives what an amazing sight to witness the powerful hand of god as our elect lady elders stood dignified dutifully and powerfully delivered the word of god in here this week we are so privileged that god chose you for such a time as this on behalf of our leaders we want to extend appreciation to bishop russell rogers and the board of elders for your untiring work to dr joseph williams and the board of presbytery thank you for your care and concern of god's chosen vessels to bishop mcgee and the home and foreign mission department thank you for your many selfless acts and your concern for the church and the community to dr dwight morrissey and the united christian college staff elder tyrone owens my pastor the bible church school elder joseph barnes and the ypha we thank you for educating us and for covering our young people to deacon michael stevens and the usher department thank you for your outstanding service to the elegantly beautiful miss byu thank you for representing us so well to the sunrise prayer warriors led by elder jenkins and elder walker you have covered the leaders the convocation and every person connected to it thank you for your early rise to daily labor for god in prayer to pastor darden and the financial team you encouraged us to give cheerfully using even the unconventional methods to the program committee what a dynamic quorum of preachers delivering the unadulterated spoken word of god and to the exception of product presiders job well done to our executive staff dr timothy morris sister nan holland sister mary herring sister diane kirby brother rogers sister corbett we thank you because you left no stone unturned to ensure a smooth running convocation to the adjutants thank you for your faithfulness to our mother and father of the district we salute you for your greatness to the devotional team we appreciate you for leading us into praise and worship admonishing us to give adoration to the one who created us all to this sdc ensemble this ensemble of singers what an amazing job you've done as you um sung to us under the leadership of our holy musical geniuses elder danny lewis and dr ron bigelow and the anointed team of musicians thank you so much for singing the songs of zion and leading us in a heavenly rehearsal because we rehearsed for heaven in here this morning and all week we celebrate you as you've helped us during this convocation to the media department photographers sound technicians thank you for capturing all these memorable moments while we weren't able to open the doors to full capacity didn't look like that this morning though you enabled us to still be able to virtually share the gospel not only in goldsboro north carolina but across the entire world to every department pastor district elder minister spouse deacon member visitor and friend of the southern district convocation we are so grateful for your participation and we say to god be all the glory for what we've experienced here this week and as i close this has been a difficult time and a year of transition as we never have had to navigate the dualities of grief and relief yet we are so grateful for the opportunity that you took the time to honor our late presiding prelate bishop wrath edward love senior we know he loved this great district and he worked tirelessly until his transition from earth to glory he often reminded us that there is no place like this place nowhere near this place and we can attest to the accuracy of this statement as we have spent eight days of heaven on earth god has already promised us he is greater than anything we have we will face he told us in his word that we would have some tribulation but be of good cheer we have he has already overcome the world so we too must continue to press forward whereas we are elated that all combined work and dedication and service contributed immensely to the grand 127th southern district holy convocation therefore on behalf of our presiding prelate bishop devon c pickett senior our first assistant to the bishop dr christopher brown our liaison bishops elect ladies spouses administration and the entire southern district convocation let it be resolved it is hereby resolved that this 127th convocation which concludes today offers and extends the sincerest and most profound gratitude to everyone here and though we are now challenged to embrace a new normal if you are determined that despite all the difficulties that you would support this administration i know you're tired but why don't you stand to your feet and let them know we support you and we appreciate our leadership to god be the glory let us give a standing ovation to our leadership that our preserving prelate bishop devon c pickett our first assistant dr christopher brown our liaison bishops and to each and every one of you to god be all the glory thank you and god bless you all [Music] our friend has people to come and we want to sow a seed of twenty dollars to help us reach our goal and while they are coming i want to say take this opportunity to thank the administration thank our sd ensemble our ushers and thank our trustees think everybody who has served this week because you have made it possible this was my first one as president it's been a busy one and i want to say that the temple is closed on next week and so if you try to call the temple no one will be here amen and so we ask that you uh if you need to call an individual uh do that or leave it on divorce mail and we can get back with you and thank you once again for your generosity and hospitality that you've shown this week this convocation was dedicated in the memory of our uh late bishop ralph it would love and we asked those of you who've been taking pictures uh please uh help yourself take pictures and use the hashtag to an sdc 2021 and we appreciate you using that hashtag sdc 2021. they're coming we ask as many of you that can to sow a seed of 20 and you can help us reach our goal we will share our goal on yesterday and we were looking forward to today being able to help reach our goal for our rally and i believe you can do that we're being uh transparent with you we're trying to pay off bills and with your help we can do it amen amen to us is going to direct you out amen if you you praying by card just come on over to elder tyrone oh and it's just gonna direct you out [Music] foreign [Music] after the offering [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] i'm me [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] while they're still doing the card can you just bow your head we ask our blessing over lord we thank you for each one that sold the seed we pray god that you bless the cause and pray that you multiply back to them 100 fold and in jesus name we pray amen thank you so much for your liberal giving we pray that god will return back to you 100 fold did you enjoy the sd ensemble what about these awesome musicians suddenly they have done a fantastic job all week we thank all of our visitors uh visiting uh preachers who have come in and ministered this week also our own bishops uh bishop mcgee and bishop rogers who have been here all week long as well thank the bishops wives and and pastors while as we thank them for their seed that they sold on yesterday of one thousand dollars and we want to make sure they get it in to us amen praise the lord we did a phone call yesterday and so we want them to get it in let let's pick it and first lady brown they're going to see to it that we get it amen amen at this time would you stand for our closing prayer all right all right let us pray dear god we thank you for our 127th southern district convocation thank you lord for every message that we've heard thank you lord for every song that has been sown thank you for every prayer that has been prayed thank you for each one who have came god here to this building on this week even though the god who may have came and may have not been feeling well in their body but god we we thank him we thank you god and we trust you god that no one was sick we covet god that everyone was healthy and god we just praise your name because you met us here you poured out your spirit upon us you blessed us not only spiritual but you blessed us financially and lord we say thank you now as we come to the close of our convocation we pray god that you will be with us as we travel back to our various destinations give us safes travel back and we shall forever praise thy name now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the brother of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise god our savior be glory majestic dominion and power both now and forever let us sing along with the choir [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] will you be seated [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see you later um

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Published: Sun Sep 26 2021