Carnell Smith introduces Bishop Gregory G.M. Ingram using a football metaphor: pastors are players, presiding elders are coaches, the bishop is the general manager, and God is the owner. Ingram is the newly elected honorary bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Praise the Lord, everybody. Thank you. I was given the opportunity to introduce the bishop. My name is Carnell Smith, a proud member of Bethel Cookstown in the Camden Trenton District, where Reverend Dr. Robert C. Wade is the presiding elder, and where my mother, Reverend Dr. A'Shellarien Addison Addison, is the pastor. So I was sitting, I asked my mom, "Dr. Lang, what should I say?" She said, "Say what makes sense to you." So I said, "Well, I love football. Bishop's middle initials are GM, like the general manager of a football team." So I just stayed with that. My favorite thing to do other than play the drums at my mother's church is play football. If the First Episcopal District were a football team, Bishop would be the GM. The GM, or the general manager, even though he has the control of the team and answers to the owner, the GM hires and fires coaches, coaching staff, and moves around players. On Team First Episcopal District, The pastors are the players, the presiding elders are the coaching staff, the bishop is the GM, and God is the owner. Yes, sir! Yes, ma'am! It worked! Yeah, it's right. The GM works with the coaching staff to make sure that the right teams has the right players.
Wow, man.
Our GM is a husband, grandfather, author, preacher, teacher who loves empowering the team. We are blessed to have a GM who loves God, who gives God his best and expects the team to do the same. Stand with me as I introduce to some and present to others the GM of the team, first official ministry, the one and only, recently elected, honorary bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Jeffrey Gregory D. M. Higgins.
Amen. Please be seated. Let me thank, uh, one of my, uh, outstanding players, Brother Smith. Uh, that's a— that was a good metaphor. Um, I've used that before. And I'm feeling the pains. When I played in school, I had a— I used to go to a particular doctor's name, his name was William Sharp, back home in Detroit. And one day I went to him and, you know, we were from the same neighborhood a little bit. And I told him I was having some pain. He said, "Wait a minute, you were— you're on the basketball team, right?" "Yeah." "And you're on the football team, right?" "Yeah." "And the baseball team?" "Yeah." "Man, you were pretty good once again." I said, "Sop, that's not helping. I'm having pain." And I was in my late 30s, or yeah, late 30s, early 40s. And he said, "Where's the pain?" I said, "It's all over." He said, "What you suffering with is delayed shock syndrome." I ain't trying to be all heavy being a doctor. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "When you were young, you didn't feel any pain." But now that you're old, that pain is all over you. And so I want to say to you, uh, Coach Smith, thank you, Coach, for all letting me— I'm sitting here today having all this pain, but I want you to know that these young folk inspired me tonight.
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