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Leader Bishop Melvin Powell
- Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date
- Bishop Melvin Powell was born in 1932 in the Jamaica Parish of St Elizabeth
- He became a Christian in his teens and was ordained as a minister in 1948
- He immigrated to England in 1961.
- He co-founded and jointly led the New Testament Assembly alongside his friend and colleague Bishop Donald Bernard for over 45 years. Their leadership partnership was renowned and respected throughout the black Christian community because they were example of united Christian leadership.
- Aside from his work in establishing the New Testament Assembly, Bishop Powell was a great supporter of humanitarian work in Africa and Asia
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The Rt Revd Melvin Lea Powell, co-founder of one of Britain’s most influential and respected black Pentecostal denominations, the New Testament Assembly –England died peacefully on Wednesday 4th November aged 77. Bishop Powell served as International Presiding Bishop of the New Testament Assembly until August 2009
Jamaican born Powell arrived in the UK in Spring 1961 and was amongst the thousands of first generation West Indians who immigrated to the UK during the 1950s and 1960s. Desirous to provide a spiritual home for the many black people that had settled in the UK, Bishop Powell worked alongside his friend and colleague Bishop Donald Bernard and planted the first ever branch of the New Testament Assembly in Streatham, south London in August 1961.
From its inauspicious beginnings in 1961 The New Testament Assembly (NTA) has become a leading black Pentecostal denomination with several branches in the UK, as well as churches in Ghana, South Africa, the USA, Canada, Jamaica, India, Singapore and Malaya, and is well respected for its ecumenical work dating back to the 1970’s.
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Bishop Melvin and Rose Powell
It is with great sadness we report that one of the UK’s most esteemed Bishop, Melvin Powell co-founder of the New Testament Assembly Churches has succumbed to illness and died yesterday 4 November at 1.22pm in the afternoon.
Bishop Melvin Powell co-founded the New Testament Assembly (NTA) churches in the UK, starting from the early 1960′s. His ministerial partnership with co-founder Bishop Donald Bernard is often lauded as the most successful in UK Black Church history, lasting more than forty years.
A humble man, a family man, a man of vision and purpose. A compassionate man – who it is said – still found the capacity to minister to people that came to see him during his final days.
A dignified statesman and giant of The Faith: Bishop Powell leaves an unblemished record and a lasting legacy of the work God called him to achieve.
Prayers and expressions of condolence to his wife, Mrs Rose Powell and family should be directed to the headquarters Church of NTA, Tooting, Beechcroft Road, London SW17 7BU Tel: 020 8672 9416. At the request of his family we were unable to report this until today.
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