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Calvin McDonald
Calvin Marvin Lydell McDonald was born on the 7th of December, 1969 in a small Town call Cooper’s Town on the Island of Abaco located in the Bahamas where I also did my formal years of education. T...view moreCalvin Marvin Lydell McDonald was born on the 7th of December, 1969 in a small Town call Cooper’s Town on the Island of Abaco located in the Bahamas where I also did my formal years of education. The third of ten children born to his parents Archie and Maggie McDonald Calvin was raised in the Church. It was his Mother Maggie and Grandparents Reverend Calvin and Beatrice Saunders who were the early influence on his Christian life. In 1991, at the age of twenty one, Calvin married his wife Elsa Haven, a school teacher, and together they had three children Calvin II, Chadd, and Cody.
I preached my first sermon at the age of 15 years old shortly after losing my Mother to cancer. Spending many years trying to run away from the call of ministry which I knew was on my life, I lived a life of sin going in and out of the church, but not participating in ministry at all. I returned to ministry after some ten years as a Landscape contractor during a sobering moment with my bank account full of money but yet feeling so empty where an inner voice was asking the resounding question: “If you were to die today or tomorrow, would your life have been worth it?” Followed by a second question, “What is the one thing you can do in the entire world that would make your life worth living?” The answer was to go back into the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!! After which my wife and I sat down with our children and made the decision to relocate the South Carolina, USA. I spent some three years there participating in various ministries in the church including jail ministry, and Ministry to the Military at the US Marine Corp Recruiting Depot. In 2008, I relocated to Alberta, Canada where I served in my first Lead Pastorate. Three years later in 2012 I became the Lead Pastor at my second pastorate in the Canadian Saskatchewan Province where I am presently. I completed my ministerial studies for Ordination through the Church of God School of Ministry headquartered in Cleveland Tennessee and again in Canada through Vanguard College in Edmonton, Alberta.
This book was written as a result of my experiences in ministry where I saw the failures of the church that I and many others were once very proud of. Also this book was mostly inspired by a vision in 2010 where I had an out-of-body experience where a heavenly figure stood over me to show the State of His church. This happened one day during a very difficult time in the ministry as I was on my face before the Lord asking for help and guidance while up against an extremely demonic force. I knew that this could have only have come from the Holy Spirit. As time went by, I sought after the Lord in prayer to show me exactly what this dream meant. The Holy Spirit instructed me to write it down and as I began writing, He gave me the words to write.view less