Everything Is Going Down, But The Word Of God……According to members of my Obnoxious Street Committee that are close to the situation at New Birth things are looking good for Bishop Marvin Sapp to be the next senior pastor of the late Disgraced Bishop Eddie Lee Long’s church. Sapp preached last Sunday and Bible Study this past Wednesday night and the members loved him. Insiders say it was down to five men that would get the church: Jamal Harrison Bryant, Marvin Sapp, Charles Jenkins, John Gray, and George Bloomer. Now Jamal they liked but he seemed to have had to much scandal and after things with Eddie Long and all the drama around Stephen Davis leaving they did not need Jamal and his sleeping around and Bastard Babies. Charles Jenkins is having some serious martial issues that he was honest about and he is living in Atlanta and focused on his music career. Plus he has a naked photo of him on the Internet and scandal with his wife and girlfriend, who’s tell all book will be out soon. So Jenkins was out of the running before he could get his foot in good. Now John Gray would have been excellent and is a son of New Birth and has that teach flow that they like, but he just took a church in South Carolina. The Board Of Directors At New Birth tried to work it out to get John, but they just could not make it happen and the money is not what it was back in the day and has not been for some time. George Bloomer is their go to guy when they need to be bailed out financially each and every time. Now Bloomer has said he did not want the church and rumor has it that Jamal and Marvin did not give him a favorable review during their interviews. It will be interesting to see is Marvin can to pay the mortgage each month.
Talking about a hunk and a chunk of money each month to stay in that coliseum they call a church. Say what you want they have managed to survive since the and now almost two years after his death and they are still standing. Marvin Sapp is a Grammy Award Winning Gospel Artist and a dynamic preacher that will be able to fill the empty seats since Atlanta loves hype, but it just might play out after awhile. Additionally, Marvin is in Bishop Neil Ellis’ start up Fellowship and he was a good friend of Bishop Long and preached his funeral. Wonder if New Birth will join the Fellowship or will it just be something that Marvin will remain an individual member. Ellis has attempted to build a Mickey Mouse Donald Duck organization with a bunch or rejects and wannabes. At first we did not know why Paul Morton over looked him, it we have found he and his so called publicist, Michelle Duffy have questionable integrity that would not allow you to follow him across the street. Now back to Marvin and New Birth, it looks like this might just happen and that an announcement will be made this Sunday. It remains to be seen if Marin will be able to handle the challenge, but if he does not ,are it he will always have his church back in Grand Rapids to fall back on so he has nothing to loose and it is a positive move for him at this point in his ministry.
Since Marvin’s wife is deceased Vanessa will be able to maintain her position as First Lady, which is a safe move. She still has a great deal of influence at the church and will most likely be the one to make the announcement of the new pastor tomorrow as she did when Stephen Davis was named the senior pastor last year. Now one thing we do know is Marvin is definitely not going to pastor the church without a salary and it is said that he has negotiated a handsome compensation package that is better than he will ever have at his church. New Birth will certainly be back on the map and just might have people running to get in there like the did back during the hay day when Eddie Lomg was raising so much money that armored trucks pulled up to the Lithonia church twice on Sunday to pick up the millions he was racking in.