Top U.S. Prophetess and her visiting team to leave Liberia shortly after successful Crusade 2026
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By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher from Bushrod Island & Barnesville Estate
A Special Pictorial by Author from Thursday crusade and Sunday service.
For many people it can be a difficult task when they have to introduce famous people at an important event in that they can find it hard to choose how to begin or to end.
Still, others find it difficult to introduce well-known personalities, people they might be very close to, for instance, a mentor, or someone who plays a fatherly or motherly role in their own lives.
And that’s exactly the dilemma that Liberia’s top evangelist, Rev. Dr. Christian Dagadu Sr. faced Thursday night when he had to introduce his U.S. mentors in the persons of Dr. Judy Fornara and Dr. Joe Fornara, during CEPC’s 2026 Annual Crusade, held in the Barnesville suburb.
In front of a huge crowd, Pastor Dagadu praised the couple for helping him go to college and earning his “Degrees,” saying, “they (Judy and Joe) are our mentors, as well as father and mother”, referring to himself and his wife, Mother Rev. Precious Dagadu.
“So, if they are our mentors, father and mother,” he continued, “They are also your mentors, father and mother,” he told thousands of worshippers present.
Simply called “Pastor Judy” by most people, the prophetess moves in all NINE GIFTS of the Holy Spirit. She and her husband are founders of Spiritual Life Church (SLC) in Brooklyn Center, Minn., with a huge congregation. Their mission-oriented church continues to plant and funded churches worldwide. SLC also runs an accredited Bible College/Seminary in Minn. and offers up to a Master’s and Doctorate degrees level.
The couple arrived in Monrovia last week from Minnesota, with a team of eight evangelists, most of whom are already pastors, with some operating their own church ministries in the USA and beyond. The team is headed by Dr. Judy: they came in to help conduct the 2026 CHRISEM National Crusade led by Dagadu’s CEPC, and are expected to return shortly.
Dr. Nancy Sky, a pastor with the team, is Dean of SLC Bible College-Seminary, where she earned her PhD in 2024, while Dr. Song Lee who’s also traveling along, holds a doctorate degree from the same seminary, and runs her own ministry called, Agape Love Church, in St. Paul, Minn., which largely serves the Hmong Community.
The team brought along two gifted praised-worship-singers: Rev. Bryant Bassett, a Gospel Musical Artist, currently engaged in Traveling Ministry, and Dr. Janet Foreman (Jazi), Musical Director for SLC choir in Minneapolis. Rev. Ashley Gagnon, Rev. Otto Sumrall, and Rev. Laura Johnson, all student-preachers, and graduates of SLC-Bible College/Seminary, came along too.
Rev. Laura Johnson is Prophetess Judy’s Armor Bearer, while Rev. Otto Sumrall, previously served with the U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan. Most joined the couple, working as apprentices, which will help newer evangelists learn how to organize and conduct national or international crusades like those staged by Dagadu Sr. and Mother Rev. Precious Dagadu.
Dr. Judy herself is an honored Oral Robert University grad who has traveled to more than 120 nations, preaching the Good News of Christ. (Count doesn’t include Dr. Judy’s forty-one (41) trips to Israel, where she often takes along bulks of her church’s members, or the couple’s dozens mission trips to Liberia).
She began her work for God’s Kingdom in her 20s, soon after finishing her studies at ORU, first engaging in the Traveling Ministry, she says, and using a used automobile she got from her parents to start-off.
Listening to her story, the world’s evangelist has experienced more than her fair share of misfortunes-all in attempts to win souls to Christ. She’d suffered unwarranted harassment, detention, mocking, and heartbrokenness, mainly in Muslim nations as she tried to spread God’s Word.
Many years back, she got arrested and detained in Cairo, Egypt, during a political upheaval in that Islamic country. Her crime? “Preaching in the “Name of Jesus!” But the worst perhaps came from Mozambique, amid a crippling drought that left people and animals dead; that’s when she wrestled with extortionist-guards at roadblocks as she tried to smuggle maize to a starving group, largely of women and children.
Dr. Judy and Pastor Joe (he prophesies too) first hit Liberia in the middle war when expatriates and most missionaries avoided travel to the country; this was October1992, the time Charles Taylor’s “Operation Octopus” wrecked Monrovia in an urban warfare never seen before.
Their decision to stay and witness God’s Word to people in such a critical period no doubt indicates the couple’s deep love for Liberia and its people.
That first encounter however, opened a corridor, letting them distribute bibles and share the Word with rebel and government soldiers at every front. They also prayed for fighters including child-soldiers who were heading to the frontlines.
Thereafter, and moved by the friendly spirit in Liberians themselves-despite they were caught in war-Dr. Judy and Joe started to invest into the spreading of the Good News of Jesus Christ in Liberia. One such development is a modern SLC Liberia Bible College, still under construction in Caldwell, Monrovia.
Prior to this undertaking, the church rented an entire building in Bushrod Island, Monrovia, from where it operated its Bible College for over a decade and graduated hundreds of pastors/evangelists now active in the field. Spiritual Life Church also simultaneously operated bible colleges in both Tubmanburg and Buchanan, Grand Bassa, during this period.
When called to serve as guest preacher Thursday night, at a jammed packed crusade in Barnesville Estate, Pastor Judy Fornara spoke of how Jesus Christ showed mercy and “Compassion” to people everywhere He went throughout His Ministry, and urged Christians to follow His examples.
As she and her crew departed the crusade for their hotel, she quietly made her way through the crowd, shaking hands with elderly people and waving to the crowd, as worshippers cheered her on.
Back at CEPC’s headquarters, Sunday, Judy taught congregants to always be ready to help perform deliverance on people who might come under demonic attacks, or are suffering from epilepsy-this could be at a shopping center, or in one’s own neighborhood, she added, citing two separate examples of her own.
While in Nigeria attending a meeting (crusade) one time she said she found herself helping and doing deliverance on a man everyone was avoiding after the man suddenly collapsed as a result of seizure.
First, she requested help from bystanders and they placed him in a comfortable position (which is the first rule) according to her. Then she sat on top of him and began to speak in tongues, while declaring “Holy Ghost Fire!” till the guy became conscious.
When everything was over, she asked for a wipe to clean up foams from the seizure victim’s mouth and told bystanders that he was now “okay,” and that he should go home and get some rest, she said. She told curious onlooker that such a “breakout” or epilepsy itself isn’t contagious contrary to the thought of many people.
Dr. Judy said, she later visited the man and his family, and won them all to Christ Jesus after that encounter.
In yet another incident which occurred at a bank in the U.S., she narrated she wasted no time but went ahead and began performing deliverance on a male customer who had gone to the bank. this is when other visitors suspected the guy might be suffering from epilithic seizure, leaving most with no choice but ran helter-skelter, including bank teller.
Well, aware of what was needed to be done, Dr. Judy said she passed her purse over to someone, then she managed to pull the victim out, or away the chairs and tables, sat right in the man’s chest, and started her deliverance!
Other customers, she explained, gave her an incredulous look. However, by the time this was over, she said, she cleaned up and went around in the bank looking for the tellers to resume work and serve the customers. “Dr. Judy” was the first customer they served; she told the audience.
However, one particular technique that a deliverance minister must do in order to prevent demonic or epilithic spirits from going back and attacking the individual is to remember to “seal up” the fresh deliverance at the end of the work.
On Sunday, CEPC did something they normally do not do; they dispatched all of the visiting guests including Dr. Joe Fornara exception Dr. Judy, to preach at other local CEPC’s branches.
Also, throughout the weeklong crusade, delegates took turns teaching CEPC’s seminars on topics such as Doctrine of God, and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit among many others.
In banner photograph, Dr. Judy addresses crusaders Thursday night at Barnesville Estate, Monrovia.
Editor’s Note: Global Ekklesia has reported extensively on the activities of U.S. Prophetee Dr. Judy Fornara and her Spiritual Life Church as well as activities of SLC’s affiliate pastors and evangelists in the USA and abroad since our debut Oct. 2021. Ekklesia’s editor-publisher is also a 2024 graduate of Spiritual Life Bible College and full member of Spiritual life Church in Minnesota. He traveled with both Dr. Joe and Dr. Judy on his first overseas Gospel Missions in 2018, to Liberia, and participated in the CEPC’s national Crusade that year.
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