The Homegoing Celebration of Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson | Local Celebration, Part 1
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2021
- Bishop Gilbert E. Patterson, Church of God in Christ (COGIC) minister and presiding bishop, media pioneer, and religious entrepreneur was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, the son of COGIC Bishop W. A. and Mary Patterson. He grew up in Memphis and was educated in city schools until his family moved to Detroit in 1952. As a child, he began preaching as early as the age of four and by the age of seventeen accepted a call to the preaching ministry of COGIC. He was ordained in 1958. He married his wife, Louise, in 1967.
Patterson prepared for the ministry at the Detroit Bible Institute and then at LeMoyne Owen College once he returned to Memphis in 1961. He was installed as co-pastor at Holy Temple COGIC that same year, serving the church alongside his father. It was as co-pastor of Holy Temple that Patterson served as one of nine local civic and religious leaders on a Civil Rights initiative committee that invited Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Memphis and help with the local garbage workers’ strike. King accepted the invitation and came to the city, delivering his famous “Mountain Top” speech at the home church of COGIC, Mason Temple, on April 3, 1968. King was assassinated the following day.
In 1975, Patterson left COGIC after years of feuding with the denomination’s presiding bishop J. O. Patterson, his paternal uncle and the son-in-law of COGIC founder, Charles Mason. When he left, young Gilbert founded an independent church, Temple of Deliverance, the Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings. The small congregation moved into the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church building and outgrew the facility within three years. In 1978, Temple of Deliverance constructed a new twelve-hundred-seat sanctuary on the property, the first church facility with a price tag of over one million dollars to be built by African American workers in Memphis. During the next decade, though Patterson was shunned by the COGIC community, his leadership in the black community and in Pentecostal circles grew. His exemplary preaching delivery and message of hope and healing gained him notice and opportunity in Pentecostal churches across America. He also became a strong moral voice within the black community and was once the target of an assassination attempt by a parishioner who disagreed with his stance against domestic violence. He eventually mended his rift with his uncle and was invited back into the active COGIC ministry in 1988.
Patterson’s ministry continued to thrive during the 1990s. By 1999, Temple of Deliverance had a membership of over ten thousand and moved into its current thirteen-million-dollar facility, which houses a five-thousand-seat auditorium, daycare facilities, radio station, and recording studios. Patterson also franchised the church in two other locations within Memphis, making it one of the first churches in America of any kind to do so. In 1992, Patterson was elected as one of the twelve members of COGIC’s governing board, and in 2000, he was elected COGIC’s presiding bishop, defeating the sitting office holder, the first time such a feat had been accomplished in COGIC history.
Patterson, ever an innovator in church planning, continued using novel marketing and media techniques to build the ministry of the church. In the 1970s, he was one of the first charismatic leaders to use mass mailing and created a church magazine, Bountiful Blessing, to reach his flock and followers. Patterson also recognized the power of television and radio. In the 1970s, he had trouble finding air time in Memphis for a black church service, so he marketed videotapes of his sermons through Bountiful Blessing magazine and church conventions. He was eventually was so well known that he was able to land air time on national cable networks Black Entertainment Television (BET) and the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
In the last years of his life, Patterson’s preaching and Bible studies were seen or heard in over 350 media outlets worldwide every week. He led Temple of Deliverance to purchase its own radio station, WBBP AM, and founded Podium Records, which recorded black gospel music, both of which he used to promote the efforts of COGIC. Patterson won numerous national and international awards, receiving an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University and being named to Ebony’s list of the hundred most influential black Americans. Patterson died on March 20, 2007, due to complications from cancer.
Bishop Patterson has been married to his lovely wife, Louise D. Patterson for 35 years. We are proud to present to you this highly respected and committed man of God.
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Bishop Patterson Was A True Bishop Of God's Church. His Spirit Of Excellence And The Words of Wisdom Shall Live on In Our Hearts Forever.
Bishop Patterson spirit 🙌 lives on still leading people to christ and causing souls to be saved and blessed i know!! Because i am ONE.
Are they ever going to consider making a movie of this man of Gods life that would be something to see.
“I AGREE;*
Why doesn't the COGIC spearhead such an endeavor? Why wait for the secular world? My thing is we want to be like the world. Our main focus is Jesus Christ.
Awesome Idea
Yes! This holiness girl would love to see this kingdom giants life!
It still brings tears to my eyes and heaviness to my heart, but God chose the best whilst on earth and for Heaven. Likewise for Missionary/ Evangelist Louise Patterson in her passing since his demise. God Bless 😢😢..
Prayers are with Mother Patterson may Bishop G.E Patterson rest in peace 🕊️
Rest easy Bishop u did good🙏🏽❤️💯💪🏽
😭😭😭Rest In Peace Bishop G.E Patterson aka Uncle Gil.
After all these years it still hurts😥😞
It does. He was the Bishop of Bishops and Preacher of Preachers!
@@Keith_Martin Amen he was...He is greatly missed😥
“TRUSTING GOD IS THE ONLY THING WE HAVE AS SAINTS OF GOD;*”I AGREE WITH YOU, AND UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN;*”
God set before then a real pearl with a lot of wisdom 🕊️He is missed 🕊️ Beautiful wife the Lord blessed him with 💞
I didn't have the honor of knowing him on this side of glory. I wish I'd met him. I watched him with my grandmother every Sunday morning as we got ready to go to church. He is a true example & will always be one of my favorite men of the Most High God!
We miss you Bishop
If this is the Homegoing Celebration, I can just imagine how good the National Homegoing was.
Bless his heart I just found him on UA-cam about a month ago and I can say he was a Holy Ghost fire preaching man of God……to God be the Glory and I didn’t get to meet him down here but I’m praying that I will up there Along with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Greeting I am watching this after just happen to come across it while scrolling but I can say this with all honesty when am down need to be encouraged I just find me bishop preaching he was God sent we are in trouble all the giant of the gospel are going home God help us
We use to look forward on Sundays to watching his services wow could he preach make you jump up and shout all over the room
MOTHER DEOLA WELLS JOHNSON GAVE A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE
May rest with your wife again together in paradise.
I never was COGIC but I seen the service overseas while in the military. Been mesmerized ever since.
🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Why is d sound going out. It come on n than off??
Do you have the National Home-going?
Unfortunately, I do not at the moment, but I'm looking.
@@Keith_Martinany luck?
Who is the man at the podium at 24:52
Where was Vanessa bell Armstrong and the Clark sisters
The Clark Sisters were there all three services, they were in the audience on this particular service.
@@danieljenkins1841 why the hell did they not sing
@@lamarjackson6874 Dorinda did at the national homegoing
@@lamarjackson6874 ua-cam.com/video/6xb7YTIFTWI/v-deo.html
I demand ANSWERS FROM THE FAMILY. IN MY ROSEANNE BAR VOICE. "WHAT THE HELL CAUSED YOU ALL NOT TO SING AS A GROUP"
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