Senior Bishop Kenneth Delany

Bishop Kenneth Delany has worked in full time ministry for 20 years. He worked with New Life children ministries (where he met his beautiful wife) as a Bible Counselor/Pastor, as a bible teacher with Crossroads Prison Ministries in Holmesburg Prison, two term President of the Frankford Ministreium (34 Churches and 1 Synagogue), founded two Churches, Philadelphia House of Prayer and the Rock Church International, co-founded with his wife Marie Overington House transitional living facility for homeless women with children and St. Joseph's living facility for men recovering from drugs & alcohol. Ken founded Philadelphia House of Prayer in 1989 after spending two weeks on Rev. David Youngee Cho's Fasting and Prayer Mountain in South Korea. In 2005 it became clear that God was separating the mission of Philadelphia House of Prayer and the church that Ken and his wife Marie are growing. After much prayer a meeting was held with Bishop Ken, his wife Pastor Marie, Bishop Jonathan Rehmat and Bishop Lionel Parsons; City Life Church was formed.

Senior Pastor Marie Genevieve Delany

Pastor Marie Delany has worked side by side with her husband Ken for 20 years, founding and operating Philadelphia House of Prayer (1989), Overington House (1999), St. Joseph's for Men (2002), and City Life Church (2005). Marie is the Executive Director of Overington House transitional living facility for homeless women with children. Here is a Web Link: Overington House. Marie is mother to Shawn and Lisa, mother-in-law to Heather, and grandmother of Jenna and Christian, and that of course is when she not busy functioning as Pastor of City Life Church or Executive Director of Overington House. Marie is a Republican committee person in our district, co-chair of the ward, and was the official Republican candidate for Congress in 2003. Marie is currently the President of the Frankford Community Development Corporation, secretary of the Frankford Special Services District. and is on the board of directors of several community organizations including the Leadership Network of Philadelphia.

Bishop Jonathan Rehmat

Bishop Jonathan is from Pakistan where his father Bishop Rehmat Daniel has 200 Churches with a total population of 26,000 Church attending Christians. In the summer of 2005 Bishop Daniels officially designated Jonathan as the Liaison between the Pakistan Church and the American Churches and confirmed Jonathan's position as Pastor with the City Life Church from 2005 to 2007. In November of 2007 Bishop Rehmat Daniel died at the age or 62. Before Bishop Daniel died he held a special meeting of his Bishops where he named his son Jonathan Rehmat as his successor and set Bishop Kenneth Delany as head of Church of God Pakistan to consecrate Jonathan to the office of Bishop which took place in Sialkot City in July of 2008. Bishop Jonathan's father sent him as a young Pastor to work as a missionary to the Philippines for three years, South Africa for six months and South Korea for six months, he is now the Head Bishop of Church of God Pakistan, and Dean of the Pakistan School of Ministry. Bishop Jonathan is a graduate of Gujranwala Theological Seminary (Bachelors)  and has his M.B.A. from F.A.C.T. College also located in Gujranwala City. Jonathan is married to Gulshan and has three children, two girls, Jerusha and Jesysel and a boy Julius.

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