Petra Ministries held an open house for Imani Christian Academy’s new location at 2150 East Hills Dr. on June 9. The old location was 235 Eastgate Drive, about one-third of a mile from the new location. Bishop Donald Clay, head of Petra Ministries, presided over the dedication ceremony. The reason for the move to the new building is that it allows them to reach twice as many students. City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess also spoke at the event.
Pastor Andrea Mitchell said, “We brought BB Jay here for something new, exciting, something that the city of Pittsburgh has never had and to receive a new word in the house.” The church is located in the Masonic building on Walnut Street which was once a bank in McKeesport. BB Jay, in referring to his visit to the church and Pittsburgh, said, “God has put it in my heart to come to Pittsburgh for a long time now but I didn’t know who he was going to have the Kingdom connect with and when I and Kingdom connected with Pastor Andrea and Pastor Tamea Mitchell, it was a perfect fit and I knew God was in it and I knew it was something that had to be done and it was something that was going to be done. It was a God thing all the way around.”
Pittsburgh native Edra Frazier earned a diploma of theology in Black church studies from Ashland Theological Seminary June 6. A division of Ashland University, it is the largest seminary in Ohio and the 12th largest seminary in the United States and Canada.
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