Let's introduce the pastor and key staff members.
Pastor
Dr. Lyndon Purifoy
Our Pastor |

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Dr. Lyndon Purifoy |
Pastor's Wife
Penny Purifoy

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Pastor's Wife Penny |
Associate Pastor and Outreach Minister
Dr. Lewis Cokley

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Dr. McElree Purifoy " Pappa Mac " |
McElree Purifoy, Senior Associate Pastor
A. Ministry:
Began in the fall of 1946, under Rev.Grady Cantrell, First Church of the Nazarene, Alameda,
CA, when he gave Julia,my late spouse, and me an assignment of outreach mimistry in the Bay Farm Island Community, San Francisco
Bay Area. Included, since that begining are evangelization and several pastorates, with 22 years on the Navajo Reservation,
North Eastern Arizona, where Julia and I established a church and ministered.
B. Formal Ministry Credentials:
Affiliated with the International Holiness Church (IPHC).Mission Workers License, August
1947, Minister's License August 1949; Ministerial Ordination August 1951.
C. Formal Education:
Bachelor of Theology (Th.B), 1950 Holmes Bible College,Greenville SC; Bachelor of Science (BS),
1963, Master of Arts in Education (NAE) ,1973,East Carolina University,Greenville,NC;Doctoer of Christian Phychology(DC,Psych.),1994,
Jacksonville Theological seminary, Jacksonville,FL.
D. Personal Statement
For any blessings or success in life or ministry, God is given the credit,praise,glory, and
honor !
Dr. Lewis Coakley
Out Reach Minister
Outreach Minister & Assoc. Pastor |

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Dr, Lewis Cokley |
Minister of Music and Administrative Pastor
Rodney Johnson
Minister of Music / Administrative Pastor |

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Rodney Johnson |
Youth Director
Joe Thornton
Youth Director |

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Joe Thornton |
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