Press Releases
APC GENERAL OVERSEER ANNUAL CONFAB STATEMENT Greetings in Jesus name! Our church annual conference picks up Feb 6 thru 11 with delegates from within and without the country. Pls find attached the first in a series of 2 press releases on the conference. The first is a statement from the General Overseer on the Theme: SOWING FOR THE HARVEST with Scripture Text: St. Matthew 13:3. The second will be before Sunday and will focus on the details of the conference i.e. activities, programs, guest speaker [coming from UK and his plan for Liberia], number of sessions, formal opening, etc. We count your complementary role, as usual, in the premises.
General Overseer 8th General Annual Conference (GAC) of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church International - Press Release “Sowing For The Harvest” by the Elder Kortu K. Brown As we, the people of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church and friends gather again for another General Annual
| Previously, successive attempts to transition from one national election to another had been undermined by deaths, coups, invasions and civil wars. Now that a new day has dawned in Liberia, it’s time to “SOW” {St. Matthew 13:3] . This is a call that runs across So we say it’s time to sow [good seed] so we can harvest. It’s time to preach, teach and give to the winning of the souls Jesus died for. It’s time to help our toddlers to “increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man”[St. Luke 2:52]. Sometimes the waiting for the harvest is long and windy. Or the preparations for the sowing is challenging! But, “be not deceived, God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap. For he who sows in his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not” [Galatians 6:7-9]. This is the planting season and harvest time will surely come [Genesis 8:22]. Let’s work for it. Let’s rededicate ourselves to cause of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the development of our churches |
Church Leaders forum with President of Liberia
| public schools, hike in prices of basic commodities,ELWA land story, unemployment, to why a second term bid, etc. The President ably responded to the enquiries largely to the delight of pastors. Brewerville, Montserrado County on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011. The nearly 4-hour session, which was moderated by Pastor Rev. Kortu K. Brown brought together 200 Church Leaders, including Bishops, pastors, and other ministers of gospel, political, religious, economic and social issued dominated the discussions ranging from inquiries about the Bible being forced out of
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Apostolic Pentecostal Church International - Press Release Brewerville, Montserrado County - 5 January 2011: The General Counsel of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Liberia has died. The Most Senior Elder, Alfred Bah Soko Brown died recently at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was 82. The late Rev. Brown also pastored the Gateway Apostolic Church in Klay town, Bomi County for 27 (twenty-seven) years, started his teaching and preaching ministry in 1957. He served as Vice Principal at the Fassama Mission School of Gbarpolu County for 10 (ten) years. In 1967, this outstanding community educator was tranferred to Boma Hills in Bomi County, where he later became principal of the United Pentecostal Mission School (UPMS), and Pastor of the Mother Church in Tubmanburg from 1976 to 1982. In 1983, the veteran apostolic pastor retired from Bomi Mission School and returned to his hometown in Klay, volunteered his services to Ministry of Education to teach education at the Gertrude Yancy Education Public School in Klay District, a civil spiritual duty he executed until December 19, 2010, when he met his demise. A graduate at Maranatha Bible College in 1970, a former student of Cypress Bible College based in Tyler, Texas, the late Rev. Brown was a Church Planter, a passion that propelled him to ascend to the position of Acting Superintendent of the Pentecostal Church of Liberia in 1970s through early 1980s. He planted many Churches and Pastored Churches from Mano River on the border of Sierra Leone to Sinoe County in the | southeast region of Liberia; he was a founding member of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Liberia. He was also former President of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Mother Tageste Stewart Apostolic Pentecostal Mission School in Brewerville. He made a pilgramage to Jerusalem, Israel in 1976. The late Elder Brown stated his primary education at the Klay Industrial Mission School in 1935. He completed his elementary education at the Zordee Mission School in Tehr clan, Bomi County in 1950. 1953 he completed his junior high school education at the Gertrude Yancy Education Public School. On strength of local scholarship awarded him, based on his "smartness" as a student, Rev. Brown enrolled at the Laboratory High where he obtained a high school Certificate in 1956. While at Laboratory High, he took courses at the College of West Africa, and practiced teaching at the Monrovia Demonstration School. Funeral rites over the remains of the late Rev. Alfred B.S. Brown will be said later. Signed, The Rev. Kortu K. Brown General Overseer Apostolic Pentecostal Church International.
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