The Right Reverend David Rwhynica Daniels, Jr. of Liberia was the Pastor of Eliza Turner African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Monrovia, Liberia. Bishop John Richard Bryant appointed him pastor of Eliza Turner Memorial AME Church in February 1989. In May 1989, Rev. Daniels founded the Christian United for Peace; “CUP” which he help to organized along with many professionals and permanent Liberian. He and many peace loving Liberians opposed the civil war and called for a national “Peace March” which brought out thousand of peace loving citizens to denounce the war. Thousands of peace loving people march for peace on June 14, 1990. Rev. Daniels nearly got killed, but he barely escaped with his life with the help of God, Bishop John R. Bryant and Rev. Cecelia Williams-Bryant and others.
When Rev. Daniels, arrived at Eliza Turner in 1989, the church had taken in less then 12 members that year. The next year the membership had grown to over 500. The success of this ministry was swift but short-lived because of the civil war, which broke out in Liberia December 1989. This senseless war destroyed all that had been gained there.
Before his election in July 2004 he was the pastor of Turner Memorial AME in West Columbia, South Carolina. Rev. Daniels the visionary leader that he is met Turner Memorial in debt and he organized the church and institutes a Sacrificial Giving effort which got the church out of debt in 16 months. He moved quickly to establish a school called Turner Child Development Center. They now have thriving school with over several full time employees. Rev. Daniels was born in Rivercess County, Republic of Liberia, and West Africa in the spring of 1957. He is married to Mrs. Irene Moifoi Daniels. They are the proud parents of daughters; Danica Rwysayma, Davida Renee, Iesha Mardea.
Reverend Daniels lived in the United States for a year and three months after he escaped for his life in June of 1990 from Liberia. When asked by Bishop John Richard Bryant the second time to come back to Liberia, Rev. Daniels gladly accepted the challenge. Rev. Daniels came back home to Liberia the second time to continue the ministry he began at Eliza Turner Memorial AME Church. He knew God could used him as an available vessel to “Make a Positive Difference” in Liberia. Upon his return, he worked restlessly to reorganize the church and with God’s help it became one of African Methodism’s largest churches on the continent of Africa. Eliza Turner grew from a few hundred members to several thousands. The church went from one full time employee to several employees before the 1996 hostilities.
Again, Rev. Daniels and his family were driven into hiding for their lives as April 6 hostilities unfolded. Rev. Daniels condemns any kind of killing of human beings and the brutal senseless civil war. Consequently, the Daniels were airlifted by the United States Marines among thousands of foreign national in April 1996 in neighboring Dakar, Senegal in route to the United States where he now resident.
In 1992 Rev. Daniels organized a ministry school which has developed into a seminary. It was named in honor of Bishop John Richard and Rev. Dr. Cecelia W Bryant. It was formally named as the Bryant School of Ministry, “BSOM”. It is known as the Bryant Theological Seminary.
Under the dynamic Afro-centric visionary leadership of Bishop C. Garnett Henning, Sr. Bishop Daniels played an integral role in organizing the AME University in Monrovia,Liberia.
Bishop Daniels is also founder of Frank M. Reid, Jr. Christian School in Liberia emphasizing spiritual and academic excellence and Christian moral standards. The vision for the F M Reid, Jr. Christian School is to influence student behavior in such a way as to dissuade anti-social behaviors and encourage students’ tolerance of their differences. The effectiveness of this emphasis was evidence in the school’s growth. The school began with about 25 students in 1992, and by 1996, enrollment had reached several hundred with present enrollment exceeding our expectation. F. M. Reid, Jr. Christian School now has a long waiting list because of lack of space.
In August of 2002, the AME University confers the Doctor of Divinity upon the Rev. David Rwhynica Daniels, Jr. (Degree of Doctor of Divinity (D. D. Hooris Causa)
Bishop David R. Daniels, Jr. holds a Master of Divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. He is trained in Clinical Pastoral Counseling and holds an Advanced Pastoral Clinical Education certificate. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree Magna cum Laude in Business Administration from Allen University. He has also studied at the University of South Carolina.
Rev. Daniels is the consummate prophet, fearlessly committed to the directive of the Great Commission. He reflects the characteristics of Old Testament prophets in many different ways.
Rev. Daniels laments over Liberia just like Jeremiah lamented over Jerusalem. Of Liberia’s situation, he states “Liberia is a country of repatriated ex-slaves from the United States and brothers and sisters they met there. Out of ignorance, we forgot that we were all inter- depended and needed each other to survive and progress as a prosperous nation. We reinstituted a quasi slavery system God liberated us from in the United States of America. We begin to oppress each other and killed each other. We adopted the ways of the country of our oppression and enslavement; we brought back with us the spirit of oppression. But, my consolation comes from Jeremiah 29:10, “Thus saith the Lord, after your period of captivity I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. I know the thoughts I have for you...of peace not of evil...ye shall seek me and find me...and I will gather you from all the nations...and bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”
Like the prophet Habakkuk, Rev Daniels awaits the Lord’s appointed time for the vision, though it tarries; it will surely come to pass.
On July 5, 2004, God answered the long awaited prayer of Rev. David R. Daniels, Jr. to go back to be used by God “To Make a Positive Difference” when he got elected and consecrated as the 124th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, Indiana and assigned to the 14th Episcopal District as the Bishop.
Bishop Daniels received the highest number of votes among the eight bishops elected. He got elected on the third ballot with 1391 votes out of 1428 votes cast on the third ballot.
Bishop David Rwhynica Daniels, Jr. election was a history making event in the life of the church as the First West African to be elected from West Africa as Bishop in theAME Church. To God Be the Glory!
HERE IS THE VOICE OF MATTH. 25: 6
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1 Like the prophets of the Bible, on April 1993, a man who had never been in a church receives in a vision, the visitation of an Angel who commissions him for a Message destined to the entire earth in fulfillment of the ministry of Mat. 25:6 and Rev.12:14.
2 The first goal of this Message is: "... That whoever believes have eternal Life". Just as it has been given to the prophets, pastors, apostles, evangelists and doctors worldwide to bring miracles, deliverances and give knowledge to the world according to Mat.7:21 as we can see on their posters: "Great vigil of blessing", "Great campaign of deliverances and miracles," "Great vigil of thanksgiving and business breakthrough" "Great seminary of teaching on..." "Great vigil of anointing and healing, "" Great restoration campaign " "You have failures in your marriage, you are facing obstacles, you have this, you have that, come!" ...
3 This Man, on April 24, 1993, even before he set foot in a church, God entrusted to him for our Time (as to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, in their Generation ...), not only to heal and deliver, but first the Message that will bring Eternal Life!
CALL AND COMMISSION
ReplyDelete5 I came to conversion on April 24, 1993 according to Daniel 10:4 to 11 by a vision in which I saw myself standing upon the sand of the sea and then on top of a high pyramid and then again upon the sand of the sea in another place and I saw an old military truck coming out of the depths of the sea and leave behind me. I turned and saw that it contained living people. They were women and one of them was of mixed race. Then two Doves came toward me and then went back over the waters. There was an eclipse and a man having the guise of a Cloud and holding a sword came down from Heaven with a Lamb and the earth was illuminated again. They stood upon the waters and the lamb began to speak to me in an unknown language. The sound of his voice came into me and I fell dead. My soul went off to stand upon the waters while my body was lying upon the sand of the sea. When It finished speaking to me, my soul came into me and I became alive again but I no longer saw Them. Then a crowd of people came toward me from the right side and I asked them if they had seen the Angel and the Lamb. They said: "No!". And I said: “How did you not see the Angel and the Lamb and all the things They have done?” They replied: "We have not seen the Angel and the Lamb and we have not heard the Words the Lamb pronounced, but we entirely believe It because what God gave and that the devil took, has now been restituted to you ". I looked up and saw a ladder set up between the sky and the earth, above the waters and angels ascended and descended. The vision ended and I felt what I know now to be the Holy Spirit and I wept and I believed in God at that moment.
6 The following day at around 3 p.m. while I was sitting at home, I was carried again in Vision into an all desert country and I saw eastward, Words that were descending from Heaven carried on Clouds. It’s after these two visions that I got up to go to church for the very first time.
7 In a third vision, we were sitting in an examination room for the Advanced level test and the examiner was distributing the test-papers. I said in my heart: "But what am I doing here, I’ve not even been in the fifth, lower and upper sixth forms and what am I going to write? And later, It was said to me: ''The same way that Mary conceived miraculously, without knowing any man, the same way Moses received in details what happened at the creation, you have received the Words of eternal Life on this April 24, 1993 and it is decreed by God. At the appointed time, you will understand and you will teach what you did not learn in order that whoever believes have eternal Life''.
God can never recognize another Way apart from what He has Himself traced. For a Pastor, an Apostle or another Ministry of Eph.4 to exist, there must be a Prophet for all the nations of the earth. If somebody tells you that he is an Evangelist or Apostle or Pastor, ask him the name of the Prophet who has established him. And if he does not say the name of the Prophet, call him "Mister" and if it is a woman, call her "Madam". And tell him that one is not a doctor, a member of parliament, a minister or a president just because he wants it, but there is a way to follow for it and it was Moses who established the Priesthood. Thus, they are the Prophets who establish the Priesthood in their Generation. If not, in a country, we would have at least fifty ministers for information, eighty defense ministers and a butcher or a carpenter will quite suddenly turn into a doctor. Imagine what will happen. You see? It is a Prophet Messenger who must give you the Mandate according to Lev.8.
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