Weekend Itinerary

Friday, April 21, 2023

5:00-6:30 – Registration

7:00 PM – The Church at Worship: Service of Licensure and Ordination

Lakeside Terrace Ballroom

Rev. Eddie Spencer, IV, Preacher

Saturday, April 22, 2023

8:15-9:00 – Morning Glory with Pastor Lois Alexander

8:30-9:00 – Registration Foyer – 1st Floor

9:00-12:30 – Workshops See Classrooms on next page

12:30-5:30 – Free Time

6:30-8:30 – Awards Reception

Einstein Ballroom

Rev. Janel T. York, Keynote Speaker

9:00-11:00 – Game Night in the Square Palmer Square

Sunday, April 23, 2023

9:30 – The Church at Worship: Closing Session

Einstein Ballroom

Rev. Janel T. York, Preacher

**All hotel guests must be checked out by 12:00 Noon.**

The Church at Worship - Friday, April 21, 2023

Pastor Rufus V. Strother, Worship Leader

Processional………………………………....………New Jersey COG Clergy, Visiting Clergy, Licensees, and Ordinand

Holy, Holy”

Invocation…………………………….………...…….………………………………………………….…….Pastor Lois Key-Alexander, Pastor, Life Abundant COG, Trenton & NJSMC Vice President

Hymn of Celebration……………

”All Hail the Pow’r of Jesus’ Name” (Coronation)

Scripture…………………………………………………………………….………………………….……Pastor Cherrena Dale-Rawls, Pastor, Community COG, Plainfield & NJSMC Recording Secretary

Musical Selection………………………………………… ,,,,New Jersey State Fellowship Choir

The Service of Licensure and Ordination

Presentation of the Licentiates

Min. Floyd E. Lewis, Jr. Reformed Church of God, Paterson, New Jersey Rev. N. Frances Tann-Morton, Pastor

Min. Isaiah Key Life Abundant Church of God, Trenton, New Jersey Elder Lois Key-Alexander, Pastor

Presentation of the Ordinand

Dr. Scott O. Cumberbatch Prophetic Church of God, Paterson, New Jersey Rev. Warren F. McDowell, Pastor

Pastor Warren McDowell: Scott, you have heard from the Credentials Committee, from the Ministerial Assembly, and from the lessons taken out of the Holy Scriptures of the dignity and of the great importance of the ministry to which you are called. Now, again we exhort you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, that you be constantly in remembrance of how great and holy is the office unto which you are being ordained. God has called you into ministry. Your tasks are many. You are to be a messenger, a steward of the Lord, and an ambassador of Christ. You are to teach, to admonish, and to feed the flock over which the Lord has made you an overseer that they all may be saved through Christ forever.

Now, in order that the church here assembled may receive full proof of your undeterred determination, and that the charge shall be forever upon you, you will answer plainly these questions that the ministry, in the name of God’s Church, requires of you. Do you promise to be faithful to the high calling of God?

Dr. Scott Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you believe in the authority of the Bible, that you will hold yourself accountable to it even as you are holding accountable the people who are in your care?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you pledge to study to show yourself approved unto God, rightly interpreting the Word of Truth?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you promise to set the believers an example in speech, in love, in faith, in purity, and so live before all people that no one will miss The Way by your example?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you promise to expand your strength of hand and mind and soul that the Kingdom of God may be extended through you?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you promise to live so that, to the very best of your ability, you will personify the love, the purity, the soul-burden, the purpose, and the righteousness of the Divine Christ?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you promise to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you promise to be true and faithful to the doctrine and truths set forth in the Bible and proclaimed by the Church of God, to adorn these truths with a godly and moral life, and to demonstrate this commitment by your loyalty to the Body of Christ and accountability to your fellow ministers?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: Do you acknowledge and affirm your oneness with all other ministers of the Church of God, promising to regularly meet with the ministers of the NJSMC where you will serve in their duly called meetings, and be subject to their duly instituted procedures?

Dr. Cumberbatch: I do.

Pastor McDowell: We, the ministers of the New Jersey State Ministerial Conference of the Church of God, therefore, charge you to be true to the ministry and to your calling all the days of your life. Remember, that this is not merely for a day, a year, or a decade, but for all the days of your life…for as long as you live.

Laying of Hands & Prayer of Ordination

*All ordained clergy are invited to lay hands on the ordinand*

The Pronouncement and Presentation of Certificate of Ordination

Offering………………………………………………………

Introduction of the Preacher……………………

Pastor Rufus D. McCall, III, Pastor, Community COG, Newark & NJSMC Treasurer

Bro. DeAndre M. Hollingsworth, NJ State Christian Education Ministry

Musical Selection…………………………………………………………………….………..,,,,New Jersey State Fellowship Choir

The Preached Word…………………………

The Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Pastor Lester W. Wormley, D. Min., Pastor, Liberty Baptist Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey

Remarks……………………………………….……………………………………………………………Rev. Dr. Scott O. Cumberbatch

Pastor Lois Key-Alexander Pastor Rufus V. Strother

Final Remarks and Benediction……………

Pastor Lester W. Wormley