Album Notes

DR. JAMES I. CLARK, JR.

For the past 41 years, Clark has been an ordained Pentecostal minister. For 40 years he has served as Senior Pastor of the Christ Temple Church and for the past 20 years as Senior Assistant Pastor of the Greater Refuge Temple; both located in Harlem, New York. Consecrated as a Apostle in 1995; Clark recently completed the second of two three year terms as Presiding Bishop within his denomination, the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. (COOLJC); http://www.cooljc.org one of the largest African American Pentecostal organizations in the U.S. He also oversees two of the organizations twelve Ecclesiastical Regions throughout the U.S. and Caribbean; and is the Dean and CEO of the organization's school of theology, the W. L. Bonner College located in Columbia, South Carolina.


A Vision of the Christ

The song from which we derived the title for our concert and album “We Would See Thee Lord first line “We need a vision of the Christ…” is presented as a tribute to its author and founder of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. (COOLJC) the late Bishop R. C. Lawson. The lyrics of this song provide a powerful statement of the then Elder Lawson’s prophetic sense of the need for his times. It further serves, as evidence of his unique prescience, for this song speaks as powerfully to the need of this hour as it did in the day it was written.