Papa P

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Pastor Zangai Peabody serves as assistant pastor of Bethel Silver Spring alongside Bishop Darlingston Johnson where he mentors young people. He also serves as international director for youth outreach of Bethel World Outreach Church (BWOC), Silver Spring. He oversees, plans, and implements church-related ministry to youths. He is also the international director of Sober Watchman Ministries (a BWOC-affiliate ministry founded in 1992 by the late Rev. Charles Wesley).

In 1994, Rev. Peabody became the director of Sober Watchman Ministries in Liberia. Rev. Peabody held this position from 1994 to 2000. Under his leadership, the ministry grew extensively and reached over 10,000 young people in Liberia and extended into neighboring Sierra Leone. From 1992 to 1994, Rev. Peabody served in Liberia as drama minister of Sober Watchman Ministries.

Before joining Bethel Silver Spring in 2004, Pastor Peabody and his wife, Mrs. Jarsa Peabody, ministered in Cameroon. From 2000 to 2004, they served as assistant pastors for youth ministry in Bethel Central Church, Douala and coordinated youth work in three other provinces: Limbe, Bamenda, and Yaounde. At Central Church, the Peabodys started the youth church with 15 youths, 0 cell groups, and 0 trained indigenous leaders. With the help of the Holy Spirit, the youth church grew to 100 youths, 15 cell groups, and 25 trained indigenous youth leaders by 2004. Upon the Peabodys' departure in 2004, two of these leaders (who had been licensed) began pastoring the youth church.

The Peabodys have four children: Ruhamah, Destiny, Tobe, and Chesed. Pastor Peabody is a native of Liberia. He has a bachelor's degree in biblical studies from Carolina University of Theology in Manassas, Virginia.

Over the past 16years Papa P has impacted and shaped the destiny of countless numbers of highschool students. Most of those mentees are now married, and leading careers while others are now leaders of youth groups and mentoring yet other young people.

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