Victory Chronicle • JUNE 2009
REAL ‘In spirit and in truth, with a pure heart ‘ are the words used by Dawkins & Dawkins. Take time each day to earnestly seek after God’s presence and be real with your adoration of Him. It starts with you:
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Reverend Timothy Wright A Tribute to...
“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.” - Romans 12:1, NASB
According to Knowledge: The Need for Sunday School by Thomas J. Arnold , III
Sunday school in its current form, began in the Middle Ages in Europe by clergy trying to teach the masses Bible basics for the literate and illiterate. Sunday school's importance in the church as a whole may be made light of to the average person, but for the new convert, its importance cannot be overlooked. One can't learn everything you need to know about this walk of faith without being properly taught, and you can't learn it all just during Sunday worship. Just like when we go to secular schools as a mandatory practice, it is even more important to realize the necessity of growing in the knowledge of the Lord - and one of the best places to do that is in Sunday school. It’s a discipline that we all must learn that sharpens our focus on the important things in life. For example, Paul when speaking to Timothy in 2 Tim 1:13 said that we should “Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus,” meaning that to keep the testimony of the Lord that he’s (Timothy) heard from his grandmother, mother, and Paul. Later in 2 Tim 3:12-17, Paul also says “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Gospel director Reverend Timothy Wright has been involved with choirs on a regular basis for most of his life. Wright began playing piano at the age of 12, as he utilized his budding musical talents at the St. John’s Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God in Brooklyn, NY, eventually composing for the church’s choir. By 1969, Wright was playing piano for the late Bishop F.D. Washington, and it was from his tenure in Washington’s choir that Wright gained the attention of Rev. Isaac Douglas and the N.Y. Community Choir, for which Wright soon began playing organ for, as well as penning almost all the songs on Douglas’ 1971 album Lets Go Higher. In the mid-’70s, Wright formed his own outfit, the Timothy Wright Concert Choir, resulting in such releases as Who’s on the Lord’s Side and Do You Know the Light, and began playing with various other choirs across the United States. Wright also found the time to team up with Myrna Summers for her We’re Gonna Make It release, as well as forming the project Come Thou Almighty King, which is comprised of a 500-voice choir. Wright is the pastor and founder of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Brooklyn, and since 1990 has been issuing albums on a regular basis, including such titles as I’m Glad About It, Moving in the Spirit, and Story to Tell; 1994’s Come Thou Almighty King was nominated for the Best Traditional Soul Gospel Grammy and hit Billboard’s Top 20 gospel chart. He remained busy into the 2000s, until July 2008, when Wright was seriously injured in a car accident that killed his wife and grandson; he died the following April at age 61.
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