Week of Prayer - February 4 thru 9, 2013
"Rediscovering My Place in Christ"
Featuring Guest Speaker... Pastor Richard W. Palmer, Jr.
Pastor Richard W. Palmer Jr. MDiv, an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is a graduate of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Theology. He also graduated from Andrews University Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity Degree. He attended Bowie State University in Bowie, MD, where he pursued a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science; in 1984 Pastor Palmer left Bowie State to serve Active Duty in the United States Navy. He served six years in the U.S. Navy and received two Honorable Discharges, serving in two war campaigns and receiving several commendations and awards including a Combat Action Medal.
Pastor Palmer became a Seventh-day Adventist under the Leadership of Elder Ricardo Graham (currently the President of the Pacific Union of Seventh-day Adventist) who at the time was pastoring the Mayfair Seventh-day Adventist Church in Stockton CA. Pastor Palmer thanks God for the leadership of the Mayfair Church for showing him how to live according to the will of God. In his ministry as a pastoral leader, Pastor Palmer has renovated churches, baptized, and served on community boards along with having both a radio and television program. God blessed him to write several articles for the Decatur Daily Newspaper. He was selected three years to serve as host speaker for the Decatur, Alabama National Day of Prayer and also was selected to speak for the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. While pastoring in Greenville, Mississippi, he was chosen as the first Seventh-day Adventist to speak at the City Wide Crusade. He has pastored in the states of California, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi; he also served as an assistant pastor in Indiana and Michigan.
Pastor Palmer is married to the former Katrina Williams, they have three children, Brenda, Delmar and Delmarques and three grandchildren. It is Pastor Palmer's desire to be in Heaven. He loves people and believes that by the grace of God, he can be instrumental in helping people find their way to Jesus. One of his favorite scriptures in the Bible is John 14:1 where Jesus says, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me." He also enjoys M. Scott Peck's quote from the book the Road Less Traveled, "Life is Difficult."
