Being led of the Holy Spirit, I felt compelled to begin not only a new work but also an organization.
As I was led by the Spirit, He said to me, “Call my people to be responsible to each other. Teach them how to love, nourish, care, strengthen, and minister within inner cities across the nation, speaking life that has been lost to urban society with all its wicked, promiscuous, and hateful sin. This sin is often hid and not heard in suburban communities and, though we know of it’s existence, it is more apparent in the inner city where the numbers are larger and the activities more pronounced: where night life thrives as the devil walks his beat. While working and communicating in the carnal environment, “Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
Educate our children. Teach them to be aware of the wiles of the devil. Bring them to realize, in the early stages of their lives, the holiness to which God has called them. Make available to them the best teachers and resources that will enforce high scholastic aptitudes while imputing sound scriptural doctrine that will result in strong morals and magnanimous self-esteem.
Enable church governed financial institutions, designed for the use and care of the saints to not have to depend on social agencies in times of despair nor resort to traditional financial institutions when in need of the things which make our lives here on earth more pleasant. “’Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith,’ saith the Lord of hosts, ‘if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’”
Help to educate and provide assistance to ministers for educational needs and to liberally give to any good work formulated towards spreading the good news.
The Spirit also spoke saying to make the Gospel available in every city, every state, every country, every region, and every land. Finally, prepare the way of the Lord, occupying until He comes: “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
As you see, there is much work to be done. The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. It will take willing men and women, with a desire to serve Him, to become open vessels to be used as resources to fulfill the mandate that God has set before me. While we watch the condition of this world move toward the fulfillment of prophecy as written in Revelation, it is my hope that you realize the same urgency that I feel in my spirit: to work while it is yet day for night surely cometh—the hour which no man can work.
This is the Vision. This is the Call. This is the Mandate. We believe in it and we shall press toward the mark. Come and press with us.
Apostle E. D. Mondainé, Jr.
(In September, 1988, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, Celebration Tabernacle, was founded by Apostle Elbert D. Mondainé, Jr. Above scriptures are: Romans 12:2, Malachi 3:10, John 10:10, II Corinthians 10:5)