Pastor Heloise Sulyans-Gibson    

Chaplain: Prison & Community Outreach Ministry

Pastor Gibson accepted the Lord in 1999, while living in exile.  In 2000 the Lord called her into prison ministry with instructions to start a pen-pal encouragement, food package and job outreach.  In 2003 Pastor Gibson returned from exile after living 4 years in the wilderness of a New York State Prison.  She tells everyone, "I got my Ph.D in Jesus and I am battlefield ready!"  She is a member of Bridge Street Prison AWME Ministry Outreach in Brooklyn, New York.  Executive Director Rev. Diana Hodges provided support, mentorship, love and encouragement to Elder Gibson while in prison and, even today, as she works in the vineyard doing prison ministry.  She is known as the Judah Praise Baby at Bridge Street AWME.

Pastor Gibson is a member of the College Initiative Program at John Jay College Re-entry Institute, which helps men and women returning from prison to obtain an education.  She is an advocate for men and women through the Women's Prison Association's (WPA) program and is a graduate of the WomenCare Program of WPA.  She is the first female mentoree of the Safe Harbor Mentoring Program's Pastor Roy Kirton of the Circle of Love Ministry and received a scholarship to Chaplaincy School from the program.

In 2004 she became a Facilitator for Network in the Community, which is a support group for men and women on work-release and parole.  They aid them in navigating re-entry, reconciliation to the community and family, dramas of parole, family and the ability to walk around in freedom.  Pastor Gibson is also a member of the College and Community Fellowship, which understands that recidivism is reduced through education, and that true education is in the Word of God.  She is a member of the Correctional Association of New York Coalition for Women Prisoners and the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice as well.  Pastor Gibson acts as a facility advisor of Emancipation Project Spirit Lead Women in Prison Yale University.

Pastor Gibson is presently in the process of obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management from Nyack College and her Master in Divinity from New York Divinity Seminary.

Pastor Gibson is Executive Director of Broken Chains Prison Ministry Outreach, presently with 50 members from Florida, New Jersey, Illinois and New York State.  She is the editor of "Applying the Word Newsletter," which encourages and educates, through the Word, that, unless you are anchored on the Rock, when the storms of life come, you will be swept away.  Stay filled with the Word, for the storms of life will be easier, for your help comes from the Lord.  

On April 3, 2005 she was ordained Evangelist under the leadership of Overseer Rev. Dr. Alfred L. Phillips of Ebenezer House of Deliverance in Brooklyn, New York.  In August 2005, Evangelist Gibson graduated as Chaplain under "United We Stand Chaplain."  She was ordained Reverend on September 5, 2006 and became Associate Pastor of Chaplaincy under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Alfred L. Phillips on November 5, 2006.

Pastor Gibson became a Board member and instructor of the Staten Island branch of Anointed by God Ministers Alliance in 2006.  In addition, Pastor Gibson is the producer and host of "Seeking My Remnant," a public access cable television show, and she is the shepherd and CEO of "Women of Favor Ministry."  Her motto is "Holiness is my chosen lifestyle for true success in life, for without God I could do nothing."  For there is surely life after prison in the Lord.