William Pelrine, Jr.
Brief
Autobiography
By William Pelrine Jr.
I was born in Bellevue
Women's Hospital, in Niskayuna, New York, United States of America,
North America, Western Hemisphere, Earth, Solar System, Galaxy,
Universe, on July 25th, 1957.
My family moved to
Baldwinsville, New York when I was four years old. I attended the
public schools there. I graduated from C.W. Baker High School in 1975.
I received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New
York at Brockport in 1979. Since then, I have studied and taken
several courses over the years at churches and vocational schools.
I have worked in quite a few different capacities over the years.
The first money I earned was collecting golf balls in the woods by a
golf course and selling them to golfers. I shoveled snow for
neighbors, raked and mowed peoples' lawns, delivered newspapers,
worked in a grocery store, was a water skiing counselor at a camp in
the Adirondack Mountains, worked as a lifeguard, worked as a painter's
helper and learned commercial and residential painting, was a door to
door salesman, a book store clerk, a taxi driver, song writer and
troubadour in New York City, a paint contractor, a carpenter's helper,
a carpenter, ran a pizza parlor, worked as a baker, worked at a Rescue
Mission as an inner city missionary, kept house for my mother
assisting her with every imaginable thing on her honey-do list and
served in Pastoral Care at a hospital, assisting with communion
services and room-to-room visitation, which lead to working as a Psychiatric Case Worker Assistant, at a
hospital psycho-social club
for 11 years until I retired in 2011.
I am called to be an
inner city missionary. I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal
Lord and Savior at the age of 10. I have had an apostolic calling on
my life since the age 14. I grew up attending a Roman Catholic Church.
I received 12 years of catechetical training at a school that was part
of that parish from the first grade through the twelfth grade. As a
result of that training, I learned what it is to be an apostle.
During my studying, soul searching, watching and praying as an adult,
I read books on the subject of the apostolic ministry. I learned that
one of the things apostles do is start churches. I read a book
entitled, "The Purpose Driven Church", by Rick Warren. It is a book
about how Mr. Warren started, what was at the time of the writing of
his book, the fastest growing Baptist Church in America. I read it
three times.
At the time, I was worshipping at The Capitol
Region Prayer and Healing Center, in Albany, New York on a regular
basis. It was there that I saw a flyer on a bulletin board advertising
a class that was starting on the subject of church planting and
leadership. I signed up, took the course and became an ordained
Minister of the Gospel.
In 2009, I started a church in my
apartment in Schenectady, New York, United States of America. It is an
interdenominational church fellowship. I believe The Lord is calling
this church, New Jerusalem Church. In The Revelation to John, in The
Holy Bible, heaven is called New Jerusalem (see Revelation 21 for a
description). We have had quite a few very good meetings in the
community room of my apartment building. I am hopeful I will enjoy
more fellowship like this in the future. I believe God has plans for
his church and I want to be a part of it. I hope you do, too.
May the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, keep your
heart and mind in Christ Jesus.