Elder T. D. Gary

IN MEMORY OF:His Eminence, The Most Rev. Dr. Gilbert Earl Patterson, D.D. was born in 1939 to Bishop W. A. and Mrs. Mary Patterson, Sr. in Humboldt, Tennessee. He was reared in Memphis, Tennessee and Detroit, Michigan. Bishop J. S. Bailey ordained him in 1958 as an elder in the Church of God in Christ. In 1962, Bishop Patterson became co-pastor with his father at Holy Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tennessee. Bishop Patterson continued his pastorate in 1975 as the founder and pastor of Temple of Deliverance, the Cathedral of the Bountiful Blessings in Memphis, Tennessee. Today, Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ is one of the nation's fastest growing congregations with over 12,000 on its membership roll. The church is located at 369 G. E. Patterson Avenue. Temple of Deliverance also serves as the home church base for the rapidly growing Bountiful Blessings Ministries (BBM) which is viewed internationally on BET and TBN cable networks weekly, as well as on local TV stations throughout the nation. BBM has a mailing list of over 100,000 active donors from outside the Memphis viewing audience. Bishop Patterson is founder and president of BBM. Bishop Patterson is a learned minister. He has studied at the Detroit Bible Institute, and LeMoyne Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee. He holds an honorary Doctorate from Oral Roberts University and is the president of the Charles H. Mason Bible College of Tennessee Fourth Jurisdiction in Memphis, Tennessee. Bishop Patterson is the publisher of Bountiful Blessings Magazine and a contributing writer in the Spirit Filled life Bible (King James Version) published by Thomas Nelson Publishers and edited by Dr. Jack W. Hayford. In July 2002, Whitaker House Publishers released Bishop Patterson's first book entitled "Here Comes The Judge". Bishop Patterson is a 20th century Apostle of Jesus Christ. He is a renowned national speaker, known for his simplistic messages that transcend all barriers of race, gender, age and walks of life for people around the globe. One of his themes, "Be healed, be delivered, and be set free" has become a popular expression. The nation demand for audio and video tapes is overwhelming. Bishop Patterson is the president and general manager of the Memphis based Radio Station WBBP (1480 AM), a full time gospel station with over 100,000 daily listeners. Bishop Patterson humbly serves God and his community through the ministries he has established at Temple of Deliverance Church (TOD). These ministries have a positive and direct impact on: unemployment-TOD employs over 100 people and has over 100 local and national vendors; wellness-TOD is a member of the Church Health Center; education-TOD issues scores of $1,000 scholarships annually to students entering or returning to colleges or universities; family life-a prayer ministry with more than 40 telephone lines and a prison ministry that serves in the Criminal Justice Center and the Penal Farm in Memphis, Tennessee. There are numerous other ministries at TOD that address the needs of the community. Bishop Patterson is a leader of church leaders. He is the Presiding Bishop of Church of God in Christ, Incorporated. Bishop Patterson has helped finance many local churches and helped organize seven other churches across the nation. 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. 'HE'S ONE OF THE BEST PREACHERS IN THE WORLD' Hello? "You got to feed on God's word..." he says. Sweet Jesus, the congregation replies. "...until that demon of self-pity that's ridin' your back..." Yes."...until you can get up enough strength to throw him off..." Hallelujah! "...nobody can ride your when you're standin' straight." Amen! By David Waters The Commercial Appeal His sermon starts slowly, steadily, like a steam locomotive lumbering out of the station. The tone and pace of his voice are measured so carefully the words seem merely able to crawl out of mouth. Don't be deceived. He's warming up - clearing his windpipe, stretching his vocal chords, preparing his voice box to receive and deliver the plain truth, the raw gospel, the inspired, infallible, indestructible word of God. Bishop G. E. Patterson of the Church of God in Christ doesn't come to chat, y'all. He comes to preach. Gilbert Earl Patterson, 57, just completed his 40th year in the pulpit. tonight at 7, his congregation will honor him at a banquet at The Peabody. Evangelist T. D. Jakes is the featured speaker. Patterson is the speaker featured. His ministry is growing locally and around the world. He's the only Church of God in Christ preacher with an international TV audience. BET and TBN cable networks broadcast his sermons weekly. His 11,400-member congregational fills two sanctuaries each Sunday. Temple of Deliverance downtown and Bountiful Blessings in Whitehaven. He preaches in one, then the other. This fall, his congregation will begin building a new 4,000-seat sanctuary downtown behind Temple of Deliverance. Patterson is serving his second term on COGIC's general board. Last year, he lost an election for presiding bishop by one vote. "He wasn't really known outside COGIC until four or five years ago, but since then he's really come on strong." said Dr. Vinson Synan, Pentecostal historian at Regents University in Virginia. "He's one of the best preachers in the world." Tell Patterson's congregation something they don't know. "He's a model for all of us; he makes the gospel so exciting and yet so plain," said Elder Gregory Askew, for 16 years one of Patterson's assistant pastors. G. E. Patterson preached his first sermon Jan. 22, 1957. It was a Tuesday evening at his father's church in Detroit. He was 17. "I wasn't nervous about preaching, I was afraid no one would come," Patterson said. Patterson's father, Bishop W. A. Patterson, was first in a long line of influential Patterson preachers in the Church of God in Christ. Patterson's uncle, Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr., served as presiding bishop from 1961-1989. His cousin is Bishop J. O. Patterson Jr. of Memphis, former acting mayor and city council member. G. E. Patterson was born in Memphis but spent his teen years in Detroit. He moved back to Memphis in 1962. He was co-pastor of Holy Temple COGIC on Wilson Street until he left the church in 1975. Not just that church. The entire denomination. "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed." Bickering among COGIC leaders in the early 1970s nearly split the denomination. It pushed Patterson away. In 1975, he founded Temple of Deliverance as an independent Pentecostal church. He was outside the church for the next 13 years. He looks at that period of his life as a wilderness. He no longer had his name, his heritage to lean on. God was all he had. "We are perplexed, but not in despair." Patterson's Bountiful Blessings ministries are booming. He employs more than 100 people. His Whitehaven complex houses a preschool, a Bible college, a radio and TV studio, a bookstore and mailroom. Audio- and videotapes of his sermons sell in the thousands. He owns a local AM radio station, WBBP-1480. He has a mailing list of 50,000 worldwide. His voice is heard by millions every week. "Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." Patterson's voice is his signature. It's deep, resonant and flexible voice, capable of expressing a wide range of emotions from solemn to sanctified. His voice has many modes, from talk to preach, from whisper to quiver to sing. He doesn't read Scripture, he transmits it. He doesn't carry a tune, he transports it. His sermons start off low and slow. He's in no hurry. He knows where he's going. The congregation knows he'll get there soon enough. "You got trouble and despair on the left side of the comma, hope on the right side." He reads the Bible looking for inspiration. It always comes. He finds a verse, then a thought. The idea grows into a sermon. He delivers the message without notes. The sermon builds deliberately. Both hands are on the podium at first. Then they start moving. Motion flows from his hands into his arms. Soon, he's jabbing and grabbing the air, his voice pitching the congregation from side to side. "I don't know about you, but I'm gonna live life on the positive side, Hello, y'all?" The sermon rises and falls, then rises again. The congregation is up and down and up again. The preacher is picking up steam. He pulls the microphone out of the stand with one hand, dabs his perspiring forehead with the other. Near the end he's singing, dancing, running back and forth from side to side. "Defeat on the left, victory on the right. Sin on the left, salvation on the right." Jesus told him no to change the world, but to preach the gospel. The gospel changes the hearts. That changes the world. He gets tired sometimes. He never tires of preaching. "Sit down, y'all and let me finish." They won't sit down. He isn't finished. (This article appeared in the April 20, 1997 edition of the Commercial Appeal Newspaper.)
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