Our Servant Leaders
As servant-leaders of Greater Philadelphia Renewal Ministries,
we believe God has called us to faithfully steward the Pastors' Prayer Summit movement.
We are bound by God to a distinctive vision: to seek greater intimacy with Christ and
a visitation by the Spirit of God upon His people.
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Paul Chaya
Paul has served as a pastor for 30 years, 21 years in North Philadelphia and 9 years in
Downingtown, a western suburb of Philadelphia, PA. He currently serves as Senior Pastor of
Windsor Baptist Church.
Paul served as chairman of the prayer committee of the 1992 Greater Philadelphia Billy
Graham Crusade. It was then that he was introduced to Pastors' Prayer Summits through Dr.
Joe Aldrich from Multnomah Bible College. In 1989, Dr. Joe and Terry Dirks began praying with
pastors in the Pacific Northwest. From there Pastors' Prayer Summits were born and grew
internationally. Paul and 10 other members of the 1992 Greater Philadelphia Billy Graham
Crusade Executive committee attended a pastors' prayer summit at Cannon Beach, on the Oregon
coast, in January 1992.
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Deeply affected by the presence of the Lord, they brought the pastors'
prayer summit to Philadelphia and to the east coast. The first Greater Philadelphia Pastors'
Prayer Summit was held in May of 1992 at Harvey Cedars, NJ.
Under the mentorship of the late Terry Dirks of International Renewal Ministries, Portland,
OR, Paul became the prayer summit coordinator for Greater Philadelphia Renewal Ministries. GPRM
has been providing Pastors' and Pastors' and Spouses Prayer Summits since 1992. He leads an
experienced servant leader team which has facilitated prayer summits throughout the United States,
Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.
For the past 20 years, Paul has been studying revival and for the past 5 years has focused on studying
Christianity in America from 1620 through the Civil War. He has studied at the Jonathan Edwards Center
at Yale University the last three years, focusing on Christianity in Colonial America and the First
Great Awakening.
Paul is married to Jean for 37 years and they have two daughters, Jennifer in Boston, and Sarah in
Coatesville, PA. Jean has been involved in the prayer summit movement for the past 15 years.
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Wiiliam B. Moore
Bill has served as pastor, teacher, evangelist, organizer and civic leader at Tenth Memorial
Baptist Church in North Philadelphia since 1974. He has served as president of
Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, co-chair of the Black/Jewish Coalition,
chairman of the Pastors' Conference City Wide Revival, and co-chair of the 1992 Greater Philadelphia
Billy Graham Crusade.
He is a founding member of United Bank, Area Development Director of the United Negro College Fund, and provides denominational
leadershiop to an AIDS initiative on the continent of Africa.
In addition to pastoring, Rev. Moore serves as Deputy Executive Director of the Parking Authority for the City
of Philadelphia.
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An outstanding leader, preacher, and counselor, Bill brings 15 years of experience with the prayer summit movement as a facilitator
for International Renewal Ministries and Greater Philadelphia Renewal Ministries. He
has facilitated prayer summits throughout the United States.
Bill and his wife Pauline, are proud parents of two children, Tamieka Nicole, a graduate of Eastern University
and currently a Kern Scholar at Virginia Union University, and Justin Bernard, a graduate of Virginia Union
University in Richmond, VA.
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Bob Santilli
Bob has served as a pastor since 1965 years in Baptist congregations in New York City and South Jersey. He
retired as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Mt. Holly after serving that congregation for twenty-seven years.
Bob now has a ministry as pastor for missionaries serving with International Ministries, ABCUSA, and with the Thailand Baptist
Missionary Fellowship.
He also serves as interim pastor for congregations as they seek new leadership.
Bob, a widower, remarried in 2006. He and his wife Barbara have three children and eight grandchildren between them, all living
in South Jersey, where he still makes his home.
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John O. Parker, Jr.
Pastor John O. Parker, Jr. is a native of Martinsville, Virginia. He was raised and educated in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He has served as pastor of Antioch Baptist Church since July of 1979. He currently resides in
Deptford, New Jersey. He is married and is the father of six children and
eleven grandchildren.
He has a heart for the community of Camden. Ministering to the whole man is his priority. He has worked
with the mayors and governors of New jersey to bring about a better environment for all.
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Many ministries in Antioch have been instituted under his leadership.
These ministries include: New Members Classes, Women and Men's Ministries, Nursery, Clothing and Food Give-away, Couples, Singles,
Youth Outreach, Street Evangelism, Audio and Video, Senior Citizens, and Antioch School of Biblical Studies (not operating at this time). He has served for
many years as the chairman of a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center.
Pastor Parker serves as a facilitator for the International Renewal Ministries of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He travels to serve in Prayer Summits in Portland, Org, Fort Wayne, Ind., Absecond, NJ and Selma, Alabama
that help pastors keep their perspective in ministry. He also hosts a Pastors' Prayer Summit at Antioch Baptist
Church once a month.
Under his leadershiop the church has grown tremendously. The church
has, out of necessity, built a new edifice on 7th and Master Streets in Camden, New Jersey. We are happy to report that
we are in our new building as of October 15, 2000.
Pastor Parker is an anointed, appointed and approved man of God, He
has a unique style of preacing and teaching God's Word to God's People. He loves God and praying for all the people.
Pastor says that greatest happening in Antioch has been the saving of over 1,300 souls.
Many have been added to the Church and have had their
lives changed forever by the power of the gospel.
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John Grove
Servant Leader
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Fred and Diane Estrada
Servant Leaders |
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Otis Banks
Facilitator |
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Bishop Sam Ellis
Servant Leader
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Rick Marshall
What began in August 1980 as an Internship turned into a twenty-three year collaboration with
the Billy Graham Team in 56 cities across North America and over 20 countries of the world.
As Director of Missions for Billy Graham (1997-2003) and Director of Counseling and Follow-Up
(1994-2001) for the Billy Graham Association, Rick was responsible to provide the strategic
leadership that helped make posssible Dr. Billy Graham's preaching ministry. These roles included:
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- Publicly representing Billy Graham and the Team at key citywide Mission events.
- Development and implementation of electronic and print-media ad campaigns.
- Supervision of 30-50 full-time field staff.
- Responsible for the financial and legal integrity of the Mission budgets (between $2.5-$4 million per city).
- Coordinated, created and approved the development of all Mission communication tools : print, video, audio and the Internet.
- Primary teacher of the Christian Life and Witness course enabling thousands of volunteers to serve as counselors during the evangelistic crusade.
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In the fall of 1993, Rick urged Dr. Graham, then age 75, to develop a 'new strategy' to reach students with a message of hope. The first 'Concert for the NeXt Generation' featuring Grammy award winning artists, dctalk and Michael W. Smith with Billy Graham was held in Cleveland, Ohio on June, 11, 1995. 65,000 people filled Cleveland Stadium on that Saturday night for 'music and a messsage'. Over the next 9 years similar events were held in 21 cities across North America with 1,286,500 attending. Twelve of the concert events broke existing stadium records.
Currently Rick is currently a Leadership consultant to numerous organizations including Stand For Africa...a Philadelphia based coalition of civic and religious leaders working to turn the tide of destruction left in the wake of the HIV/AIDS crisis across sub-Saharan Africa.
Rick is a graduate of Central Michigan University (1975) and an ordained minister with the North American Baptist denomination (1992). Rick and Becki are the parents of 4 children; have two grandchildren and reside in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
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Janis Oeschger
Administrative Assistant |
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