WELCOME TO THE 36TH ANNUAL PASTORS PRAYER SUMMIT!
For Facilities Issues/Needs:
Contact Tuscarora Front Desk - (570) 897-6000
For Programming Questions/Comments:
Text or Call Josh Miles - (502) 550-0918
SCHEDULE
MONDAY JANUARY 27
- 10:00am - Registration Begins
(Main Auditorium) - 12:30pm - Lunch (Dining Hall)
- 2:00pm – Encounter 1: The Sufficiency of God (Main Auditorium)
- 4:00pm - Prayer Breakouts
(See Breakouts Below for Your Location) - 5:30pm - Dinner (Dining Hall)
- 7:15pm – Encounter 2: The Guidance of God (Main Auditorium)
- 9:00pm – Dessert (Gym)
TUESDAY JANUARY 28
- 8:30am - Breakfast (Dining Hall)
- 9:30am - Doors Open (Main Auditorium)
- 10:15am – Encounter 3: The Attentiveness of God (Main Auditorium)
- 12:30pm - Lunch (Dining Hall)
- 2:00 & 3:00pm - Breakout Sessions. (See Descriptions Below)
- 5:30pm - Dinner (Dining Hall)
- 7:15pm – Encounter 4: The Anointing of God (Main Auditorium)
- 9:00pm - Dessert (Gym)
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29
- 8:30am - Breakfast (Dining Hall)
- 9:30am - Doors Open (Main Auditorium)
- 9:45am – Encounter 5: The Pursuing Goodness of God (Main Auditorium)
- 12:00pm - Conference Ends
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
MONDAY JANUARY 26
- Brooklyn – Oak Room, Riverside
- Bronx – Cypress Room, Riverside
- Connecticut – Chapel
- Long Island – Lower Level 2, Riverside
- Manhattan – Acacia Room, Riverside
- New Jersey – Chestnut Room, Riverside
- Queens – Lower Level 1, Riverside
- Staten Island, National – Green Room, Auditorium
TUESDAY JANUARY 27
These seminars will be repeated at 2 p.m.
and 3 p.m. for your convenience.
- Hope Day, Hosting a Hope Day,
(Oak Room, Riverside) - Haiti One by One, Empowered to Succeed,
(Acacia Room, Riverside) - Dan Buttafuoco, HBS, Stop the Exodus Before They Walk Away, Chestnut Room, Riverside
- All People Free Documentary, Auditorium, (* also at 4 p.m.)
- Pillar College, Render unto Caesar?
The Importance of Christ-centered College Education, (Chapel) - Inspire Sports Camps, The Long Yes: Building Faithful Volunteers, (Cypress Room, Riverside)
- Mac and Marya Pier, Dwell: Creating a Congregational Campaign & Lessons in Book Writing, (Gymnasium)
- Care Portal, Churches Ministering to Families in Crisis,
(Lower Level 1, Riverside) - ALI -Emerging Leaders Solving Pain NYC Pain Points Presentations , (Lower Level 2, Riverside)
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr. Pier has been catalyzing Christian movements most of his adult life. In 1988, he founded Concerts of Prayer Greater New York, a prayer movement that has united pastors and advanced a culture of prayer across Metro New York for the last 36 years. This year is the 35th consecutive gathering of the Pastors Prayer Summit.
In 2008, Dr. Pier founded Movement.Org (formerly, the New York City Leadership Center) and along with Dr. Tim Keller, co-founded Movement Day.
Mac and his wife Marya have lived in New York City for 40 years. He has authored or co-authored ten books. He and Marya have three children and five grandchildren.
Bishop Dr. R.C. Nelson is a visionary whose guidance and focus on leadership development enabled the Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brooklyn to evolve from a single cell church model into a vibrant urban ministry center that is home to more than 3,500 members. In 2011, Bishop Nelson led his congregation in the purchase of two city blocks for the development of the Ebenezer Plaza, which provides a 43,000 square footage Urban Ministry Center and over 500 affordable apartments. In addition to serving as senior pastor at Ebeneezer Urban Ministry Center, he serves on several community and denominational boards.
Bishop Nelson pursued theological and ministry training across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, earning degrees from institutions including the European Bible Seminary, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Fordham University, and the New York Theological Seminary, along with advanced certifications in chaplaincy and conflict resolution. He is the author of Give Me This Mountain, which chronicles the journey to develop a new ministry facility and more than 500 affordable housing apartments.
Bishop Nelson has been happily married to Rev. Diana Nelson for almost 40 years, and they are proud of their three children Raphael Nelson Jr. (spouse Janissi), Andrae (spouse Ayisha) and Sigourney and grandson Maverick Nelson. He credits his family and faith in God for all he has accomplished.
Josh Miles is the Managing Director of Movement.org, where he serves as the Integrator to help the Vision become a reality. He is a seasoned organizational leader and systems builder with more than 15 years of experience in churches, nonprofit, healthcare, and entrepreneurial environments. Known for his ability to align people, processes, and priorities, Josh helps organizations move from ideas to outcomes by building the structures necessary for sustainable growth and long-term impact. Josh is married for 18 years to his wife, Jaclyn, and they have three children, 16, 14, and 10.
Rev. Ejaz Nabie is the Lead Pastor of Faith Assembly Church in Richmond Hill, New York. Called by grace out of a Muslim background, his life is a living testimony to the transforming power of the gospel. With a heart for the nations and a passion for spiritual formation, he has become a trusted voice to believers seeking to live with wisdom, purpose, and faithfulness.
Beyond his pastoral work, Pastor Ejaz serves as the Executive Producer for Global Events with the Global Church Network, helping to unite and equip leaders across the world for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. A gifted communicator and visionary leader, he has ministered at conferences and churches around the globe. His unique blend of spiritual depth, cultural awareness, and practical insight invites readers and listeners alike to pursue a life shaped by God’s truth and empowered by His Spirit.
Through his just released book “Goldmines of Glory,” Pastor Ejaz calls believers to embrace the discipline that leads to divine success — a life rooted in wisdom, shaped by grace, and lived for the glory of God.
Bishop Joshua Rodriguez transitioned from a decade on Wall Street to founding the Cityline Church Family, a vibrant global network of churches. His visionary leadership spans ministry, politics, entrepreneurship, and professional sports, advising governors, political leaders, entrepreneurs, law enforcement, military personnel, and athletes.
A globally respected author and mentor, Pastor Joshua bridges generations with passion and transformative action. Holding multiple earned advanced degrees, his powerful voice inspires audiences from local communities to international stages. Rooted deeply in New Jersey, Pastor Joshua cherishes family life with his wife, Paula, four children, and seven grandchildren, while building a legacy of faith, leadership, and global influence.
Christian S. Smith (PhD, King’s College London) is the Executive Director of Pastoral Ministries at The Life Christian Church in New Jersey, where he has served for more than a decade. Alongside his pastoral work, Christian is a passionate advocate for beauty and the arts. He has co- and associate produced two films, and his academic research – culminating in a PhD in Theology and the Arts – explores the place of the arts and aesthetic practice in evangelicalism, aiming to inspire a deeper appreciation of beauty’s role in God’s creational design.
Reverend Sarah Renee Anthony is a native of Paterson, New Jersey, and a product of the Paterson and Englewood school system. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Felician University and is currently employed with the New Jersey Community Development Corporation in their real estate department.
Pastor Sarah was licensed to preach in May 1998 by the late Rev. William H. Butler, Founder of Grace Gospel Church in Paterson, and ordained in May 2018 by her then Pastor, Rev. Yvoma Butler. Under the leadership of Reverend Butler, she also severed as the Facilitator of the Youth Board, Women’s Committee member, Sunday School Teacher, Bible Study teacher, and Facilitator of Just Because We’re Sister’s Women’s Ministry.
On January 31, 2021, Pastor Sarah was elevated to co-pastor of Grace Gospel Church and on September 9, 2023, she was installed as Senior Pastor. She holds to II Chronicles 7:14, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” Pastor Sarah is the proud mother of three, Brandon Scott, Teretha Jane, and Samuel Eli, and grandmother to Jayson Siddhartha Zuri Hannah.
Mark is the NYC Area Director of CarePortal, a connecting platform that aims to reverse the foster care crisis nationally. He serves on the Advisory Board of the National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, on the Boards of New Life of NYC and We Rise 365, and as Associate Minister at the Church of God of East New York.
Mark’s three goals in life are to preach, teach, and influence government legislation to see individuals, families, and cities be completely whole and filled with Upstream Kingdom Justice. He says of himself, “I just want to be known as a small man with a Huge God.”
Monique Sade has served as a worship leader and choir director for 15+ years at Beraca Baptist Church, one of the largest Haitian American congregations in Brooklyn. God has opened doors for her team to minister in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Estonia, and across the East Coast. She is currently living in Orlando FL, helping local churches build worship leaders and worship teams! She is also the president of Chosen For the Journey Inc., a family-owned music entertainment company.
HONOREES
Bishop Ray Rivera has served as pastor, preacher, denominational executive, organization founder, and community builder. In the late-1960s through the 1970s, he was Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Sunset Park Re-development Housing Initiatives in Brooklyn, and Community Coordinator of the Lutheran Medical Center, developing community outreach programs for clergy and community-based organizations.
From 1975 to 1984, Dr. Rivera was National Executive for the Hispanic Council of the Reformed Church in America. In 1992, he founded the Latino Pastoral Action Center (LPAC), which started as a division of the Manhattan-based NYC Mission Society, the NYC’s oldest and largest social service agency. His vision was to develop an organization that dealt with social justice issues from a holistic perspective.
In the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, he worked as an educational advocate and trainer in School Districts No.1 and No. 4 in Manhattan, empowering parents to become partners in the educational process. As a result, parents were elected to school boards, school-based management teams, and other policy committees within educational systems. In 1999, after years as a public education reformer, Rev. Dr. Rivera led a team of community and education leaders to establish the Family Life Academy Charter School.
Rev. Rivera the author of the book Liberty to the Captives: Our Call to Minister in a Captive World. He is also the founder of the Council of Holistic Christian Churches and Ministries.
Dr. Beverly Morrison Caesar, affectionately called Pastor Bev, is the wife of Bishop Roderick R. Caesar, international Bishop of Bethel Gospel Tabernacle, Fellowship International.
She currently serves as the Overseer of this growing fellowship. In addition to her husband of 46 years, she is also blessed with 3 daughters, her miracle son Roderick III (who is now the senior pastor of the historical church) and four beautiful granddaughters, Kayliah, Selah Dawn, Amara and Sonya; three handsome grandsons, Mason, Roderick IV, Josiah and Amadi.
Beverly has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Hunter College, a Bachelor of Theology Degree (salutatorian) from Bethel Bible Institute (of which she is now a professor), Masters of Biblical Studies from Anchor Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Divinity from Vision International University. She devotes her time firstly to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, secondly to her family and thirdly to the ministries to which she has been called. Pastor Bev is walking in this new chapter of her life and is available to share her many life-changing testimonies and anointed teachings wherever God leads to an open door. She shall not be silent in declaring the power of the Living God to a dying world. Galatians 2:20 is her life scripture.
Sharon came to faith in Jesus in 1975 and relocated to New York City where she spent several years working as an Administrative Assistant to various senior executives in the investment banking industry. Finding this lucrative but empty, she sought work that was more personally meaningful to her. In 2006, she decided to join the not-for-profit sector, which eventually led her to Movement.org, where she served as Special Projects Coordinator and Executive Assistant to Mac Pier.
Following a 17-year career with Movement.org, Sharon retired and now devotes her time to the mission she co-founded, Nexus for Good, whose purpose is to bring hope to underserved children by breaking the cycle and power of poverty through elementary education and ancillary children’s programs. Sharon helps shape the direction and programs of the learning centers, manages finances, and performs myriad administrative duties from her home in Lancaster, PA.
In her spare time, she loves to read, watch movies, travel, and go out to eat global cuisine. Favorite activity: “Tuesday Prayer Meeting with all my amazing Movement.org friends.”
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