Former Magistrate is new administrative Bishop of New Testament Church of God

Aug 06, 2023 News

Kaieteur News – Overseer Clive Nurse, the new administrative Bishop of the Association of the New Testament Church of God (Guyana) anticipates a “new season” in one of the oldest protestant denominations in Guyana.

Former Magistrate Clive Nurse is new administrative Bishop of New Testament Church of God

The Church is celebrating its 64^th annual convention this week, at the National Cultural Centre, Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown.

For Bishop Nurse who will officially take up the post from August 14, “the church plays a strategic role in the moral fortitude of this country”. The New Testament Church of God, Bishop Nurse reminded, is “ethnically diversified” with a huge percentage of youth. “We are big on youths”, he reiterated.

The church’s annual National Youth Camp begins on August 14 and ends on the 18^th. Nurse, who joined the church in the mid-1980s, has a heightened vision of that sector and has plans to “build a cadre of focused youths (to) directly affect how things happen…from the grassroots level”

“We are excited about the new season that God has ushered into the New Testament Church of God,” Administrative Bishop Nurse said.

This year’s convention will be held under the theme “Staying Connected” and Nurse noted that the quest is to keep its members throughout the 216,000 Km²country “connected vertically (to God) and horizontally to each other”

One novelty of this year’s annual event is the presence of several leaders from other Caribbean jurisdictions including Trinidad and Tobago, St Vincent, and Barbados among others. Caribbean Field Director, Bishop Ishmael Charles, Dr Kenroy Burke, Administrative Bishop, Barbados, Bishop Wendell Davis, Administrative Bishop, St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia, and Bishop Dr. Oliver Subryan will be in attendance.

Attention, both secular and spiritual, has now been focused on Guyana, a nascent Petro-producing and exporting, but still heavily agro-dependent country. “Guyana is attracting leaders of all caliber,” he observed.

It is no wonder the new national overseer and former senior magistrate is excited about the future of the church he now leads: he is the 8^th National Overseer for the NTCOG (Guyana), and biblically, 8 is the number of new beginnings.

Apart from being a senior magistrate, the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), University of Guyana (UG) and University of the West Indies (UWI, Trinidad) trained agriculturist and lawyer, believes his professional legal, administrative, and financial portfolios “will help guide” the future of the Association.

One of the first very obvious changes will be accepting a fully Spanish-speaking church into the multi-racial religious national grouping. He is looking forward to additional Hispanic congregations in the Association of New Testament Church of God (Guyana). He is also expecting Franco, Portuguese, and Dutch-speaking local congregations.

Nurse lauded the recent announcement by President Irfaan Ali that Spanish will be a compulsory subject in the local schools’ curriculum.

Bishop Nurse is married to Simone Nurse for 27 years. They have six children and four grandchildren. He has been saved and walking with God for over 37years.

He has been a Senior Pastor for eight years and was the longest-serving Assistant Pastor in the Association of the New Testament Church of God in Guyana, with a record of 21 years.

He also serves as the District Overseer of the East Bank, Soesdyke, and Lethem District, and served as the National Youth and Christian Education Director, among other portfolios.

He is an Attorney-at-Law for approximately fourteen years. He is a Christian and marriage counselor and a Marriage Officer. He is also a part-time Lecturer at the University of Guyana.

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and Lethem District, and served as the National Youth and Christian Education Director, Overseer of the East Bank, Soesdyke

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