While Minister Algernon Quattlebaum (AKA "Minister Q") wears many hats, his work in the church is the one that makes him most proud.  Minister Q attends the Co-op City Baptist Church, whose pastor is The Rev. Dr. Sheldon E. Williams. 

Minister Q accepted his calling to the ministry in 1996, and it has not been a straightforward movement.  The good thing about God is that His grace is sufficient, and He is patient.  Minister's Q road has been anything but easy.  He preached his 1st sermon under the guidance of Pastor Willie Davis at Christian Unity Baptist Church in Los Angeles, Ca. 

As a young preacher, he was preaching all over LA, with Pastor Davis guiding and teaching him.  His ministry was growing.  Around 1998 my wife and I moved to Monrovia, Ca, and he started working with First Baptist Church of Duarte; the pastor at the time was Rev Derrick Lewis.  He worked with Rev Lewis as an associate minister.  After a few months as an associate minister, Minister Q fell from the ministry and started running the street.  He thought he had it all together and took things for granted; before he knew it, he was going through a divorce, back-slid, homeless, and had nothing.  One thing he did learn is that God is the same; it is us that change. 

Minister Q found himself back in NY, living with his dad.  Al Quattlebaum was far from the man people called "a great young man of God." He was so disappointed in himself, which gave him more of an excuse to do worse.  He found himself talking with someone who asked him a question about the Bible, and he could answer the question to his satisfaction.  To Minister Q's surprise, he was not only to answer his question but was able to take him through the Word and show him different scriptures to back up what he was showing him. 

Something at that point woke up inside, and he started speaking with people who had influenced him.  They showed and told him how God was always there and never changed, but he lost focus on what was important. He was then led to go back to church and get right with God.

Skipping ahead, he married in 2002, worked with a ministry in the South Bronx, and eventually started going to Co-op City Baptist Church.  Then again fell away because he was now mad at God and started thinking he could find contradictions in The Word, and then it was work, and he began to work on Sundays.  It started to become easy not to go to church, and before he knew it, ten years had passed. 

On Feb 21, 2020, he lost his dad, and Rev. Williams and Co-op City Baptist Church family were there for him and his family.  He and his wife drove to Fl 2 weeks later, and it was while he was gone he told his wife that he was tired of running and needed to get it right with God.  He has not changed; it was him that changed, and God was just waiting for him.

If you allow it, God will and can change your life, but you have to have the Want To cause God has the know-how!!

 

Jesus, Loves You, and So Do I, and There is Nothing You Can Do About it!!!!