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We are featuring Zion Tabernacle of Praise here on Spotlight New Jersey. Reverend Ruth A. Harley Boyd is pastor. Jeannette Keyes is a member, and ladies, I love that opening shot with your logo. Pastor Ruth, you started this church when and how, and you got the calling at age 12. Age 12, yes, I grew up in a house full of ministers. My grandmother came into Jersey from Pennsylvania, founded a church in Summerville, New Jersey. My father then became pastor. My mom took over when my father passed. So a long line, a long legacy of pastoring churches. I founded based on the call from God, Zyan Tabernacle of Cras in Piscataway, New Jersey, and we began on January 1st, the year 2000. Um, believe it or not, it started with just 3 members, and it started in my home, so God has blessed us and he is continuing to grow us and mature us at Zion, we, uh, from the inception we strive to reflect Jesus Christ through. An uncompromising attitude of excellence, holiness, and love. We are here to serve and we live out loud. Most people don't do that today, but we like to live out loud everything we teach and preach. What does it mean to live out loud? Live out loud means to, even though we are not perfect, we're striving to mark the perfect man who is Christ Jesus, so we live out loud. I can't talk about something and preach something unless you can see me give the example out loud to the world and to the community. How big is your body of members? We are, I can't, we're big in Christ, small in membership, uh, we've anywhere from 50 to 70 people over the years, uh, which is really good for me personally. I think the smaller the congregation, the more the pastor can get and be in tune to what the members need. I can talk one on one with them, bring them to a maturity in Christ, and then send them out to do exactly the same. So within Zion, even though we may have members who have gone out, we've got members who actually started their own ministries. They're evangelizing throughout the community here in New Jersey.

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I'm speaking with Reverend Ruth A. Harley Boyd who is pastor of Zion Tabernacle of Praise and member Jeannette Keys. Ladies, let's talk about some video that we have of a mini conference that you all have going on at the church. So in May we held a mini conference and it was health conference actually it was on mental health. It showed we talked about elder care and we also talked about education. The theme was raising the bar and what we did to just. Live out loud our theme for lunch and for breakfast, and I should say breakfast and lunch. We actually had bar stations so that you got our theme throughout the day, no matter where, what room you were in, whether the sanctuary, the chapel, the hall, you saw our theme being lived out loud. So that was to benefit not just Zion, but we had a lot of visiting guests as well. Um, Zion also internally host and actually have many events, uh, that those events promote and actually forward our ministry. One such event was Scholastic Achievement, and that's a celebration we have annually to reward and honor all of Zion's scholars. What we do is it focuses on their education, it teaches our youth and our young adults. That education both natural and spiritual is not an option. It is definitely required Zy also is generally concerned about the welfare of those less fortunate over the years and currently we continue to host and support many outreach events, uh, we do in a feeding ministry where we actually prepare lunches and dinners for 100+ people. We actually support Fish Incorporated. We give them clothes when they need it. We give them gift cards to supermarkets and gift cards to families as well from other stores. We actually put bags of cleaning supplies together when fish asked for that, but we don't forget about charity begins at home. So even within Zy, our own congregation, we are constantly helping those in need. All the time, not just, you know, today and not tomorrow, but throughout the year we actually support internal our members as well.

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Pastor Ruth A. Harley-Boy and church member Jeanette Keys joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss their mission.

Spotlight New Jersey: Zion Tabernacle of Praise, INC

Pastor Ruth A. Harley-Boy and church member Jeanette Keys joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss their mission.

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