Pastor Died Of COVID-19 Because Of His Defiance

A Christian pastor who defies not to congregate or have mass gatherings and observe social distancing because of COVID-19 died of COVID-19 on Saturday – April 11,2020 – or before Easter Sunday.

Before he died he said that he strongly and firmly believe that God is greater than the disease coronavirus disease: “ I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that.”

“ A Virginia pastor who defied warnings about the danger of religious gatherings during the pandemic and vowed to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital” died over the weekend after contracting COVID-19,his church said.” (NY Times)

“In Virginia, an evangelical pastor who defied stay-at-home orders to hold packed services died of COVID-19.” (Democracy Now)

“The evangelical pastor who vowed to keep preaching unless he was “in jail or the hospital” has died of COVID-19….. only weeks after defiantly opening his church doors.” (TMZ)

The prominent evangelical pastor who prefer to defy and died because of his defiance is Bishop Gerald O. Glenn. He is the founder and leader of the New Deliverance Evangelic Church in North Chesterfield Virginia.

“Bishop Gerald Glenn,66, founder and leader since 1995 of the New Deliverance Evangelic Church in Chesterfield, was the first black chaplain of that community’s police department and was a police officer before becoming a pastor,the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Sunday.” (Washington Post)

His wife, Marcietia Glenn, have also the virus or also positive of COVID-19.

Gerald Glenn ( image from Democracy Now website)

Gerald Glenn ( image from NY Times website)