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William D. Holmes
William Dennis Holmes was born on September 27, 1963, to Floyd and Lizzie Mae Holmes in Greensville County, Virginia. He attended Greensville County Public Schools and graduated in June 1982. He gr...view moreWilliam Dennis Holmes was born on September 27, 1963, to Floyd and Lizzie Mae Holmes in Greensville County, Virginia. He attended Greensville County Public Schools and graduated in June 1982. He grew up in a Christian home with a praying mother and father. They went to a powerful sanctified Holy Ghost—filled church called Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia, Virginia, under the leadership of Eldress Lillie P. Williams. It was there along with other churches under Pastor Mother Williams that William Holmes witness the supernatural power of God working among the saints of God. William would see how devoted his mother was to serving God and how she put in him to love the Lord and serve him with a perfect heart. She would pray faithfully calling on God from her bedside. She would talk to him about Jesus. His father would provide for them and love them. He would read the Bible to them at night. His father would also pray.
When he went to church he saw the saints of God acted the same as his mother and father. He concluded that this was real because they held up holiness more important than education or anything else in this world. They were happy people to be free from the world of sin. They gave up the world and dress and look like the saints of God. They kept their testimony year after year. William knew these people were real.
When William was six years old, he was stricken with a serious illness and placed in Medical College of Virginia Hospital Richmond, Virginia. His father called Mother Williams, who prayed for him, and God wonderfully brought him out. Even the doctors who attended his case said, “It was the hand of God that brought him out.” So William devoted his heart to the Lord and got saved, sanctified, and baptized of the Holy Ghost filled and fire at the ages of thirteen to fourteen years old. He was nourished in the Word of God under his pastor, Bishop William H. Easter, who succeeded Mother Williams as pastor of Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia, Virginia, along with Bishop Rufus A. Easter, pastor of New Jerusalem Holiness Church of Garysburg, North Carolina. God wonderfully worked in his life and took him through many trials and tests. He remained steadfast in the faith and rejoiced in the Lord. He did not cause the church to be ashamed of his conduct. He lived a saved, sanctified life no matter how people treated him. He was called into the ministry and preached his trial sermon October 1990 at New Jerusalem Church under the leadership of the Former Eldress Rosa Banks.
On June 5, 1993, he was united in Holy Matrimony to Velvet L Mangum-Holmes, and God has blessed them with a beautiful marriage. William Holmes joined the United States Navy Reserve in February 2000 and served in Operation Liberation of Kuwait in 2003. He established an International Prison Ministry in the year of 2005, which is a great blessing to many prisoners across the United States and around the world. He along with Sister Velvet hosts a prison ministry show on radio to reach many prisoners. They send Bibles and other religious materials all free to prisoners, and they make personal visits to inmates preaching the gospel. In the year of 2010 William Holmes graduated from ECPI University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and minor in computer science. He currently pastors a church in the Richmond, Virginia, area where he resides. He is also the author of the book titled A Healthy Christian That Pleases God, which gives you a clear picture of God’s standard of holiness.view less