Adoration with Evangelist Lewis McIlwain and Guest Yvonne Jones Lembo

Claimed by Jesus Christ, Yvonne Jones Lembo was born to a family of pioneering Christian leaders in the African-American Pentecostal movement. With strong Christian roots, she has grown up and branched out in fellowship and service across denominations in the Body of Christ. Gifted by the Lord in intercessory prayer and the ministry of the Word through singing, writing, preaching and teaching, she served God’s people through music, congregational care, and ministry to women, children and youth. She has witnessed the Gospel of Jesus Christ on college campuses, street corners, prisons, hospitals, and nursing homes; ministered to the homeless, families in need, immigrants and refugees. Yvonne served with worldwide evangelism teams in the Caribbean, Europe and Africa, and has taken the lead in mobilizing African-Americans for missions through ministries such as the African American Missions Summit, the Global Round Table, and Meet Me in Africa. Yvonne has served on the Executive Team of Catalyst for Change Church of Philadelphia since 2011.  In 2012, she was consecrated as an Evangelist Missionary with the Church of God in Christ. She received the Master of Divinity with honors from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in 2013. Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 2006, she serves as Regional Gift Planner for Eastern Pennsylvania with the ELCA Foundation.

“Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings.Do not spare. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes For you shall expand to the right and to the left. And your descendants will inherit the nations and make the desolate cities inhabited.” Isaiah 54:2-3