The doors of her church are now open

Prophetess Deborah Ford is ready for any challenges that come her way.She has been a police officer, security guard, private investigator and school campus advisor. And Ford has faith that she will succeed in a field dominated by men that few women attempt to conquer.
She is known by many as the Prophetess Ford through her Gospel Hallelujah World Wide Radio Ministries, co-hosted with her husband, Deacon Harold Ford, since March 2007.
The Fords will be celebrating the fourth anniversary of their radio ministry with a “Red & White Holy Ghost Concert” on Saturday, Aug. 13 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Peninsula Club, 415 South Peninsula Drive in Daytona Beach.
The event, which is free to the public, will feature performances by Sir Princeton, Debra Forrest, and the Men of Excellence. Also featured will be special guests from Orlando and Daytona Beach area.
‘Passion is total ministry’
Ford accomplished her dream this week by opening the doors of her own church, which had its first meeting this past Sunday at the Comfort Inn in Daytona Beach, off of US 92, on 90 Professional Blvd.
“My passion is total ministry. I’m a Christian girl all my life. I attended Catholic school as a little girl six days a week, and on Sundays, I went to a Methodist church,” said Ford, who married her first husband, a minister, at age 19.
Ford has no regrets because her relationship with ex-husband produced three children.
Her journey allowed her to meet her current husband, Harold, while she was living in Tampa.
Ford said she was first ordained as a pastor in 1998 under Church of God in Christ denomination.
Response about women preachers
Ford said she has come across many who don’t think women should be preachers.
When they cross her path, Ford is quick to open her Bible.
“God does not have a gender. Neither male nor female in the kingdom of God. He looks at all of us as being his children,” she stated. “In the Bible, it is said He allowed a donkey to speak. Why not a woman,” she asked.
“An angel told a woman that went to the tomb to see Jesus that he was not here. “Go out and tell he is risen,” Ford added, nothing that the woman was another example of God granting women the license to preach the word.
“We’re in an extraordinary church. We worship an extraordinary God. God is all powerful and knowledgeable. He can do whatever he wants to do. Let him be God.
“We serve a God that should operate as extraordinary. Allow him to take charge and take control,” continued Ford.
She urges people to “go beyond the scriptures, what is written before and after. Who it (chapter and verse) was written for. Dissect and explore the word of God and don’t fit it to our needs. Find out the true meaning.’’
In addition to her radio ministry, Ford works as a campus advisor at Riverview Alternative Center in Daytona Beach.
The radio show can be heard locally on WPUL-AM 1590 every Sunday morning.
“We take great pride in being used by God to help the lost and to seek out those yet still in dark places, helping those needing to find salvation in Jesus Christ,” Ford concluded.
For more information, go to Deborahefordministries.com or call 386-216-6718.