'He was like the OG of the neighborhood and made sure that we were welcomed in... in the Bible we call it a 'person of peace,'' Pastor Patrick 'PT' Ngwolo said about George Floyd.
Roaming through the Cuney Homes Projects in Houston, Texas, a predominantly African-American neighborhood, Pastor Patrick"PT" Ngwolo of the church Resurrection Houston went looking for disciples. Flyers in hand, he walked the streets promoting a coming concert featuring the Christian rap artists Reconcile and Corey Paul.
"It was Big Floyd," Ngwolo said."He stands out in the crowd." Years later, George Floyd, 46, died while in custody of four police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. one officer kneeled on Floyd's neck for several minutes while Floyd did not appear to resist arrest. The confrontation with law enforcement started after a corner store employee accused Floyd of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. He's remembered by his partners in ministry as"OG," meaning original or original gangster, and"a man of peace." George Floyd with his ministry friends. Photo provided by Nijalon Dunn and originally published on ReligionUnplugged.com.Pastor Ngwolo and Floyd's relationship that budded at that neighborhood concert quickly grew into a partnership focused on relational ministry and community building. "We wanted to do aggressive, actual, life-on-life discipleship in this particular neighborhood," Ngwolo said."He was like the OG of the neighborhood and made sure that we were welcomed in... in the Bible we call it a 'person of peace.' He helped us and allowed us to operate in his neighborhood." Floyd was well-connected and well-respected in the area, and he eagerly threw his reputation and his labor into the initiative. The local basketball court became hallowed ground, the premises for"Church in the Bricks." Floyd became a central figure of the Christian outreach program, Ngwolo said. "Everything from speakers to chairs, to tables, everything had to be loaded from one location to the next," said Corey Paul, one of Floyd's partners in ministry. Floyd volunteered to set up and tear down for ministry events on the court, sometimes lugging 30 chairs at a time, his friends said.Share this about âBig Floydâ before they change the narrative! The man that helped me drag a baptism pool to the court in the projects so we could baptize dudes in the hood. The man that helped put down & clean up chairs at outreaches in the hood. A man of peace! A good man.
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