Meet The Pastor

Pastor Marcia L. Taylor
“My passion is to please God, to serve God’s people and to bless each life that God brings into my life.”
-Pastor Marcia L. Taylor

Pastor Marcia L. Taylor evangelized for several years and was ordained as Pastor by the late Bishop Benjamin T. Moore in the PNDC, of Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.

  • *Founded The House of Prayer and began pastoring in 1986 with her late husband, Joseph Taylor, Sr. at her side.
  • *Founded the Inside Out Prison Ministry;
  • *Founded the Agape Community Ministry, a re-entry program;
  • *Founded and operated The House of Prayer Day Care for over ten years;
  • *Founded and operated the Aenon Bible College Extension; and,
  • *Founded and operates The Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation of Oregon & PNW, which reaches into Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Hawaii.

She wrote two books on Sickle Cell Anemia, a cookbook which when sold she chartered a bus and sent senior citizens to the beach for a first-time beach venture. She has just completed a book on domestic violence, fostered over 100 children, and raised three young people brought home and rescued by her children until they were adults, and has participated in one music CD.

Pastor Taylor attended Multnomah School of the Bible, and Aenon Bible College. She took Chaplain classes at Providence Medical Hospital, attended Portland Community College and Portland State University and graduated with a BA from Marylhurst University. She received her MA in Pastoral Ministry from Aenon Bible College, and has nearly completed her doctoral degree.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe in One God who created the universe and everything in it. (Isaiah 43: 10-13; Isaiah 44: 24; Deut. 6: 4; 1 Corinthians 8: 4-6)

We believe that God became flesh, in Jesus Christ. So He is One with God. (John 1:1-5; John 1:14-18; Isaiah 9: 6-7; John 17:20-23; John 17:5; John 16:27-30; John 14:7-11;)

We believe Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. In saying this, I believe Mary was a virgin when she ‘gave birth’. (Luke 1: 26-38)

We believe Jesus died on the Cross for our sins, that we may be forgiven. And that He was bodily raised to life on the third day. (Luke 23: 33-34; Luke 24: 1-7; Isaiah 53: 3-7)

We believe we have ‘eternal life’ by accepting God’s plan of Salvation which is accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.(1 John 5: 10-12; Romans 10:9; Acts 4:11-12; Colossians 2:6; Ephesians 3:16-19; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Timothy 2:5)

We believe in being ‘baptized’ by full immersion after receiving Jesus as Lord and Saviour. We do not believe that water baptism only saves a person. Salvation is a free gift by accepting Jesus. (Romans 6: 3-4; Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 2: 8-10) and being filled with the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:38; 4:12 with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

We believe that is there is a place called Heaven and a place called Hell. The believer goes eternally to Heaven and the sinner eternally to Hell and the wages of sin is death. Rom. 3:23.

We believe sin includes the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God according to 1 Cor. 6:9-10. It says, “Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

We believe that we must love one another regardless of race, color, creed, religion or practices as there is but one judge and that is Jesus Christ, Himself. John 15:12, James 4:12