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Bill Wilson & Metro Ministries International

New York City, The Philippines, Romania, Italy, South Africa

Urban children's ministry

 

 

Pastor Bill Wilson is the president and founder of Metro Ministries International, America’s largest ministry to children with branches in various nations.  

 

As a child, Pastor Bill experienced the pain and hopelessness of abandonment. One day, as he walked down a street with his mother, they stopped to sit for a while. She instructed him to sit there and wait for her to return. He sat and waited for 3 days straight. She did not return. A gentleman who had seen him sitting there stopped and picked him up. The man was a Christian.  

 

Out of the pain, impoverishment, and isolation of his own abandonment, Bill developed a heart of

compassion for suffering children everywhere. From the ghettos of America to the garbage dumps of Manila to the sexual slave trade in Thailand, Bill has sought to rescue hurting children, offering a message of love and hope while combating issues like hunger, poverty, child prostitution, and AIDS awareness.

 

As part of his commitment to serving urban children, he established the headquarters of Metro Ministries in 1980 in what was one of Brooklyn’s roughest neighborhoods, the Bushwick community, most commonly known for its history of gang violence, crime, drugs, and poverty.

 

Due to the success of Metro’s programs, President George Bush, Sr. appointed Pastor Bill to serve on the National Commission on America’s Urban Families in 1991. Metro’s influence was also identified as a factor in the noticeable reduction of crime in the Bushwick community, and the organization was featured on ABC’s NIGHTLINE in 1997.

Today, Metro Ministries spans the globe reaching out to thousands of children each week. During its fall and spring sessions, Metro ministers to over 22,000 children per week in New York City and over 20,000 in Manilla, Romania and South Africa - totaling 42,000 worldwide. After 27 years, Pastor Bill, himself, is still driving one of the school buses to pick up kids for Sunday School. His programs, curriculum, and techniques are being duplicated in cities all over the world. Pastor Bill travels widely speaking in churches nationally and internationally each week.

 

Contact: 

Metro Ministries
P.O. Box 695
Brooklyn, NY 11237
718-453-3352

 

Visit Metro Ministries' website.