Bishop David S. Butler spent his childhood in Harlem and in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
He attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Art where he participated in the
Debate Club, Junior Chorus, Senior Chorus and was the Captain of the Track and Cross
Country Teams. At graduation he was awarded the Livingston Wingate Award for
Athletics and was inducted as a member of the Music Honor League.
He attended the State University of N.Y. at Fredonia where he was a member of the
Pierians (Oral Interpretation Club) and was nominated one year as the best actor. He
was awarded a summer dance scholarship to Tanglewood, Massachusetts, and was the
first president of the Black Student Union.
He attended New Brunswick Theological Seminary where he won a Ford Foundation
Fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education, earned his M.Div. (magna cum
laude) and received the Livingston Wingate Award for Urban Ministry at graduation.
Since that time he has been awarded the Doctor of Divinity and the Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D.) through the C.I.C.A. University.
In 1980, he was ordained an elder in the Church of God in Christ. In 1984 he was
consecrated as an ordained minister (or bishop) in the Church of God (Cleveland,
Tn.) and served on the state council of N.Y. He became an ordained minister in the
Reformed Church of America and is under the tutelage of Rev. John Jenkins and
Apostle Bobby Hogan, the presider of the Christ For The World International
Fellowship.
Bishop Butler serves full time as the pastor of Fullness Of Joy Ministries (est.
Nov. 1999) and is the Bishop of N.Y. and N.J. for Christ For The World International
Fellowship. He has received a call from God to do missions and has done missionary
work in Israel, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Philippines, Guyana, Uganda, and most
recently Kenya and Ghana.
To God Be The Glory!