BP Adams honors gospel music legend Hezekiah Walker
Saying that Bishop Hezekiah Walker is “a man of his word,” Brooklynites turned out on Monday, June 13 to celebrate his induction into the Gospel Music Academy Hall of Fame.
Borough President Eric L. Adams teamed up with gospel stations WBLS 107.5 Radio and 1190 WLIB NY to salute Grammy-Award winner, and Brooklyn’s own, Bishop Walker for his work evangelizing as a pastor, preacher and musician. Walker is the pastor of the mega-church Love Fellowship Tabernacle and director of the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir. Readers may be familiar with his recordings and live concerts featuring the popular song and video, “Every Praise is to Our God.”
According to Love Fellowship Tabernacle’s website, Walker rose from a humble upbringing in “the tumultuous Fort Greene public housing projects,” to oversee one of the greatest preaching and musical ministries in the Northeast. His hard work expanded his ministry to include sites on Long Island and in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and down south in Lilburn, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina.
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