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Biography |
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| "In my travels throughout the country, ministering to
millions, God has shown me a real need that exists in our inner cities. The
Lord has given me the vision to build a Christian-focused facility in the New
Life Fellowship Center. This facility will house programs and launch job
opportunities for the young and old, in order that it might be fruitful to the
community. This center will lead in the effort to improve inner city streets
and neighborhoods. God delivered me in Charlotte's inner city from a life that
mirrors the ills that we still face today. My heart's desire is to build the
center in the same area where I once was used as a tool for the devil. I am
thankful that the Lord has blessed me with the land in that neighborhood, and
the Temple Shall Go Up." |
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- Pastor John P Kee |
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The Man |
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At times it can be hard to describe Pastor John Prince Kee.
Although he is one of gospel music's greatest artists, this neither conveys the
capacity nor the passion for real and clear ministry with which God has
impregnated him. His desire is to show the love and power of the Lord to the
world. |
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Raised in Durham, NC, Pastor Kee was born 15th out of 16
children where music and attending church highlighted his family's weekly
activities. John exhibited extraordinary talent at an early age, both vocally
and instrumentally. An excellent student, John was placed in a special school
for the musically gifted children, and he started his musical career at the age
of 14. |
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John moved to Northern California where he studied music with
his brothers, Al and Wayne. While there, his music gifts flourished as he met
and played with some of jazz’s greatest artists. However, his life would change
drastically during his late teens when John drifted into a street lifestyle
that brought him to Charlotte, NC. Once in Charlotte, he moved to the Double
Oaks Community to live a life filled with fear, drugs, and danger. |
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Material possessions offered John no consolation, and the
senseless violence that encompassed him became insufferable. As a result, John
decided to change the direction of his life in his early twenties. He
ultimately surrendered his life to the Lord at a revival meeting at PTL in
Charlotte and returned to active involvement in the Church. |
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In the mid 1980s John started a community choir in Charlotte
which rapidly achieved success. This choir eventually grew to become
world-famous New Life Community Choir. Through projects such as "Wash Me" and
"We Walk by Faith," the world was introduced the choir's powerful and anointed
music ministry. |
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However the Lord was not through with John P Kee, as there
was a greater call on his life. While traveling with his choir one night in
Michigan, John P. Kee received the calling to preach; he was in his
mid-twenties. From that day forward, John P. Kee had a vision to reach the lost
with God's clear Word. A few years later, he was officially ordained as a
minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. |
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Continuing to find success with his God-given musical gifts,
John P. Kee released his award winning project, "Show Up", in early 1995.
During this time, he had been conducting church services on Wednesday and
Thursday nights for over 4 years. On a fateful evening in 1995, while
ministering in Youngstown, Ohio, John P Kee received a prophetic word from the
Lord through Bishop Norman Wagner calling forth the vision of the New Life
Fellowship Center. The word was, "Build It and I'll Come." Pastor Kee says, "It
was on that night that I knew to go forward and build a Fellowship Center in
Charlotte, NC, to teach and preach the uncompromising Word of God." |
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Receiving that word, Pastor Kee founded "The New Life
Fellowship Center" officially in early 1995 where he accepted his call to
minister and pastor in Charlotte, NC. The ground upon which the church stands
is the same ground where Pastor Kee spent his younger years lost and without
direction. Pastor Kee does not collect a salary from the church but rather is
satisfied ministering the clear and accurate word of God into the lives of
others so that they can get and maintain everything that God has for them. |
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In December of 1995, Pastor Kee married the former Felice Sampson. This anointed couple have nine children. Pastor and First Lady Kee are certain that God has anointed them to impact the lives of their children and the Partakers of New Life Fellowship. |
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