40th Birthday for Rev. Francis Sarpong

 - Senior Pastor Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church,

London on 17th February 2002

 

It was a matter of surprise surprise birthday for the Senior Pastor Rev. Francis Sarpong of Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church London on Sunday 17th February 2002. The pastor is always very busy to celebrate the birthday and the church decided to catch unaware. The saga started at 6.00 a.m. in the morning in his house when he woke up in the morning to find all the pastors and guests in his house waiting for him to wake up and take birthday breakfast with him. Having worked hard the previous night for the day's sermon it was to his surprise that he was not to preach as he had to celebrate his birthday in the church. When he was ready to go to church, he was surprise to find that a member the church had hired a limousine to take him to church. According to him he had not entered a limo before. To crown it all, it was a TWO-IN-ONE birthday as his two-year-old daughter celebrated her 2nd birthday at the same time. All went on together in the church. Come to the church......................

 

Rev. Francis Sarpong and his daughter cutting the birthday cake to make the occasion in the church

 as his wife Elizabeth (right) helps them

 

Final touches

Church members arranging the table to the occasion

 

Congregation could not hold their horse

 

All the way from Harrods - most expensive shop in UK

A church member hands over some flowers on behalf of pastor's wife  to the pastor..... flowers from Harrods

 

Here we are women ministry

Pastor Loise Gitahi present the flowers to the Rev. Sarpong on behalf of the women ministry

 

 

Youth ministry joined the que to hand over their big envelop together with flowers

 

Not from Harrods this time all the way from Italy

Men ministry could not afford to be left behind..... a gift all the way from Italy

 

Big envelope from the usher's ministry

Sandra (right) a Zimbabwean in the church presented Rev. Sarpong with a big envelope on behalf of the usher's ministry

 

Back to  business

The following Sunday 24th February, he could not forget to deliver the sermon of  the day.

 

 

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