By Michael Ashcraft —
While Lorenzo Sewell was in high school, his dad got incarcerated and his brother got murdered in East Detroit.
“I was mentored by murderers. I was a student of the street,” said the former drug abuser, drug dealer and gang leader.
But Lorenzo found God in Paul-like conversion in his senior year in 1999 and now pastors the dynamic 180 Church in Pontiac, Michigan.
When Donald Trump asked to visit his church to listen to members talk about their issues, Pastor Lorenzo thought it was a prank call. When he subsequently got invited to speak at the Republican National Convention, he lit up the arena with fire of God.
”Only God knew that 30 days (after visiting his church), there would be a miracle by a millimeter,” Lorenzo preached, electrifying the RNC. “Did you know that President Trump was shot at 6:11, and did you know that Ephesians 6:11 says, Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power?
”You can’t deny the power of God in this man’s life,” he added. “You can’t deny that God protected him. You can’t deny that it was a millimeter miracle that saved this man’s life.”
A sniper’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear at the Butler Farm Show Grounds where he was holding a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.
The former president, who is seeking reelection after losing the 2020 campaign to Joe Biden, turned his head to look at screens behind him as the round was fired off, narrowly missing him.
Pastor Lorenzo was a surprise speaker at the RNC on July 18, just days after the assassination attempt in which one Trump supporter was killed.
Pastor Lorenzo rocketed up from relative obscurity. He launched his Pontiac congregation starting with 30 people in 2013; today it has more than 500.
Among outreaches and services he strives to bring to his community, he launched a kitchen remodel which resulted in feeding the community 3 times a week with the goal of serving over 600 families per week.
Pastor Lorenzo also completed a computer lab for adult literacy classes, computer training through resume writing, and free internet access for those who do not have access to a computer at home, his church’s website says.
At the RNC, Pastor Lorenzo said Trump didn’t come to his church to give a speech.
”He came to a church to listen to average, everyday Americans,” he said. “He came to the hood hood because he cares about average Americans.”
Pastor Lorenzo’s speech was widely praised in the media.
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About this writer: Michael Ashcraft pastors a church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
