{"id":70,"date":"2013-09-05T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:35:06","slug":"ministerial-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/about-3\/ministerial-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Elder\u00a0Paul D. Tate<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6802 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-48x60.jpg 48w, https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/IMG_0760-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Born August 16, 1959, Paul credits his mother, the late Mrs. Lena Glenn for his integrity, discipline and self-reliance. Minister Tate began fulfilling his call to ministry forty-six years ago when he joined the New Light Missionary Baptist Church as a child. He graduated from John Wesley College in 2009 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology, while simultaneously earning a diploma in Minister in Training from the In the Light Continuing Education Center. Minister Tate is active in his church; serving faithfully on the Male Chorus and the Mass Choir.\u00a0 He is also a dedicated Sunday School Discussion Leader as well as leading the weekly Wednesday evening Prayer session and Bible study.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined in holy matrimony to the love of his life, Deborah on Friday, June 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He is the proud father of two beautiful children; Jasmine and Isaiah.\u00a0 Minister Tate has traveled on speaking engagements, representing his church as a member \u201ccalled to God\u201d to serve in whatever capacity needed.<\/p>\n<p>One of his favorite scriptures is Psalm 34:1:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"chapter-2\"><span class=\"text Ps-34-1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I will bless the <span class=\"small-caps divine-name\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0at all times;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Ps-34-1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 His praise <i>shall<\/i>\u00a0continually\u00a0<i>be<\/i>\u00a0in my mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder\u00a0Paul D. Tate \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Born August 16, 1959, Paul credits his mother, the late Mrs. Lena Glenn for his integrity, discipline and self-reliance. Minister Tate began fulfilling his call to ministry forty-six years ago when he joined the New Light Missionary Baptist Church as a child. He graduated from John Wesley College in 2009 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology, while simultaneously earning a diploma in Minister in Training from the In the Light Continuing Education Center. Minister Tate is active in his church; serving faithfully on the Male Chorus and the Mass Choir.\u00a0 He is also a dedicated Sunday School Discussion Leader as well as leading the weekly Wednesday evening Prayer session and Bible study. He was joined in holy matrimony to the love of his life, Deborah on Friday, June 27, 2025. He is the proud father of two beautiful children; Jasmine and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/about-3\/ministerial-staff\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/6920"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capefearswac.org\/mt-pisgah-lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}