Your past is no match for your future!

Are you running away from something that keeps reminding you of your past mistakes and failures. Are you trying to escape a history of shame and embarrasment. What is it that you are being tormented with everyday, that won’t allow you to experience lasting joy and peaceful rest. There is a time and a season for everything under the heavens. As one thing die’s another thing lives. It is the circle of life and the principle of seasons. Mourning is appropriate when there is loss, laughter is relevant when there is joy and excitement, repentance is needed in the time of tresspass & viloation, and deliverance is required where there is real bondage. Today is the time to recognize what season you are in and respond accordingly. Weeping lasts for the night, but joy and dancing will come in the morning’s light. This is not the time nor the place to retreat, but to speak to yesterday’s errors and history’s transgression and declare through repentance and sincere faith that this is the day that the Lord has made.  It is time for rejoicing and gladness. Declare it, believe it, walk in it, recieve it. God has not forgotten you!

Listen to the Children Speak…..

Our children are speaking and crying out to be heard. This world we are living in today is being handed to them in such a horrible unforgiving state. There are little places available for mental shelter and peace. The children are calling out to us for help. The only way they will know how to survive in their coming years is that we listen to them and teach them a better way then what they see. They have more knowledge but less strength to handle it.

Bishop G.E. Patterson – Funeral Service Program

PROGRAM OF SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FUNERAL SERVICE
COGIC PRESIDING BISHOP G.E. PATTERSON
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2007

Organ Prelude

The Processional
• The Acolytes
• The Ecumenical and Denominational Leaders
• The National Elected and Appointed Officers
• The Board of Bishops
• The General Officers
• The Adjutant General
• The General Board
• The Assistant Presiding Bishops

The Patterson Family

The Sealing of the Bier

Opening Sentences The Right Reverend Samuel L. Green Jr.
• Member, General Board

Hymn of Comfort The Right Reverend Matthew Willaims
• “Come Unto Me” Adjutant General
• The Choir and Congregation

Invocation The Right Reverend Jerry W. Macklin
• Member, General Board

Old Testament Scripture The Right Reverend Nathaniel W. Wells
• Member, General Board

Choral Response The C.H. Mason Memorial Choir

New Testament Scripture The Right Reverend Leroy R. Anderson
• Member, General Board

Affirmation of Faith The Right Reverend Philip A. Brooks
• Member, General Board

Anthem The C.H. Mason Memorial Choir

Acknowledgements of The Right Reverend Roy L.H. Winbush
• Civic and Religious Leaders Assistant Secretary, General Board

William Jefferson Clinton
• 42nd President of the United States

Reflections from The White House The Honorable Alphonso Jackson
• Secretary, Housing and Urban Development
• Official Representative of Pres. George W. Bush

Ecumenical Tribute The Right Reverend James B. Leggett
• General Superintendent, International Pentecostal Holiness Church
• Chairman, Pentecostal World Fellowship

Selection The C.H. Mason Memorial Choir
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NATIONAL TRIBUTES

Department of Women Mother Willie Mae Rivers
• General Supervisor

Council of Pastors & Elders The Reverend Derrick Hutchins
• Chairman

Board of Bishops The Right Reverend John Henry Sheard
• Chairman

General Assembly The Right Reverend James Oglethorpe Patterson Jr. • Chairman

Selection The C.H. Mason Memorial Choir
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NATIONAL RESOLUTIONS

General Church The Reverend J. Harley Lyles Jr.
• General Secretary (Interim)

General Board The Right Reverend Wilbur W. Hamilton
• Secretary, General Board

Introduction of Eulogist The Right Reverend Chandler D. Owens
• Former Presiding Bishop

Sermonic Hymn The Right Reverend Matthew Williams
• “Amazing Grace” Adjutant General
• The Choir and Congregation

Eulogy The Right Reverend Charles E. Blake
• First Assistant Presiding Bishop

Prayer of Comfort The Right Reverend George D. McKinney
• Member, General Board

Recessional

Sermon – “Keep the Faith”

Daily Soul Quotes: “The power to heal”

You may not realize it and probably never consider it, but the reality of it all is that you have the ability to heal another with the words that you say. We have grown up being taught to recite the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The fact is words can and will hurt in the right context at the right occasion. If guilty is the word in a court trial where you are the defendent it hurts. If divorce is the result in a marriage that you are struggling in, it hurts. If cancer is the word that is pronounced to a body that belongs to you, it definitely hurts.  On the other, the opposite is true for every incident. If words of life and healing is spoken to a broken  heart, a change will take place and the words will help! So Speak a word cause you’ve got power to heal!

“The Sermons of Bishop G.E. Patterson- Reliving the Legacy”

Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson blessed us in so many ways on so many different occasions. We honor his life and appreciate his legacy. Listend to and watch the sermons of the General that touched the lives of men, women & children for many years. This new site is a tribute to the Messages he brought forth. It is the site that celebrates the life of Bishop G.E. Patterson and brings you the Sermons and songs that ministered and will continue to minister to you for years to come.

Download Clips of Bishop G.E. Patterson Funerals

In case you missed th homegoing services of Bishop G.E. Patterson, you can download clips of the services right here.

Friday’s Jurisdictional Funeral Service Eulogy by Bishop Maynard:

Jurisdictional Service Clip: Eulogy

Saturday’s National eulogy given by Bishop Charles Blake:

Saturday’s Memorial: Eulogy by Rev. Charles E. Blake