Thanks much Madear and daddy, love you much... Charles

"I am the light ..."Jesus

Matt4:16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great LIGHT, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a LIGHT has dawned.” I Charles Sanders Porter once dwelt in darkness. I have seen the great LIGHT of Jesus. There are many still dwelling in  the shadow and darkness of sin and death. Yet, the LIGHT of Jesus has come. The LIGHT Ministries comes in the grace of God reflecting the great LIGHT of Jesus in the darkness of sin and death.

...darkness is the absence of light!

May 1986… one week after graduating from Carver College, I was blessed with the hand and heart of Patrica Ann Farrow of Cleveland, Ohio; in marriage for 10 years. Before she went to sleep in her LORD Jesus we were blessed with Charmaine, Sarah and Charles.

Jan 1996… began the overwhelming life adventure of aloneness in widowhood. Only the LORD Jesus Himself could and would carry me through. I never sought the adventure of raising and caring for 3 children alone… that was the will my Father! He did His work through this unworthy image of God male that I am! Despite my past existence in darkness, the amazing grace of the living LORD of LIGHT enables our children to each trust the LIGHT of His truth 1John3:4.

​Mar 1949…  born to Bernice Marie Carter in Shreveport LA. I do not know my biological father but Madear married Willie Porter soon after my birth and he gave us his name. He is the man who cared for me and I call him daddy.







Daddy and Madear took me and my siblings to church. At Mount Paran Baptist Church in the Cooper Road area of Shreveport, La., I learned the stories of the Bible at an early age. During my early teen years, I made “a” confession to Pastor C.L. Pennywell and was baptized because I truly did believe Jesus died for sins and that He resurrected from the dead. The problem was none of that related to me personally.


During pre-adolescence years my brother and I were sexually abused by a male family member. Shame mingled with my inherent arrogance and ignorance set me off on a path of immor​a​l rebellion trying to prove to myself that I was a ​b​oy. I grew up ​arrogant, ashamed​, angry, rebellious and deeply immoral!

I learned to play the clarinet and tenor saxophone in junior high school and music became my safe place.


May 1967... graduated high school and joined the Job Corps. After 18 months I spent several semesters at a state HBCU studying engineering as I played the saxophone in night club bands. On one gig our bass player didn't show up, I picked up his bass guitar and never looked back. 

​Alcohol, drug​s and sex were readily available in the night club band life. I became a casual drinker and indulged in soft drug use. It was the boy with girl sexual encounters that easily fueled the raging fires of hell that had been ​earlier ignited in my body.

Jan 1972... joined the US Army and served 30 months in Germany as a soldier by day while playing bass guitar in night club bands on nights and weekends. After the military I returned to Shreveport for a short period with the desire to form the hottest band in the land! Nothing happened so I moved to Atlanta GA with my hot band aspirations.  Within a few months, some exceptional musicians and I formed a  successful local music group. I was eventually voted out of the band because I didn't want to be under an individual manager or management group. My desire and goal was for our band to incorporate and manage itself and we share equally in the fruits of our labor.


I was always a church member who lived on my own terms until I lost all of my material belongings including my apartment and car. I was homeless until the church I was attending at that time secured a room for me at the Butler St YMCA Atlanta GA.


...out of the darkness!



Sept 1982… while walking the streets of Atlanta GA pondering the failures of my life I literally stumbled upon Carver Bible College and Institute. 

Jan 1983… enrolled for classes at Carver not because I was called to ministry but because I was in darkness needing light. I quickly learned that I was dead in the darkness of sin. Though I knew and believed Jesus died for sins; I didn’t know He died for my sins because I didn't know I was a sinner.

...into the light!


Holy Spirit shined the light of Jesus into the darkness of my dead in sin soul; enabled me to personally acknowledge my sins and confess Jesus as my Savior from sin and give my life to Him as LORD. 

Honoring

Bernice Marie and Willie Porter


CONTACT

Minister Charles Sanders Porter

"...cause JESUS LIVES, I live"

John14:19


The LIGHT Comes Ministries, Inc

Atlanta, Ga

1-888-92LIGHT

404-781-9161 Text

PorterCharlesS@gmail.com

www.thelightcomes.org

​​​​​Confession of Faith 

I believe in the God of the Bible!

I believe the Bible is the LIGHT of God in the darkness of this world of human existence!

Prov19:7-11, 30:5; Matt24:35; Heb4:12; 2Pet1:19

Minister Charles Sanders Porter

The LIGHT of God

  1. Absolute & total sovereignty of the God of the Bible. Isa45:5-25, 46:9-10
  2. Authority of the Bible as the total inerrant, infallible Word of God.
    1. God-breathed. Thus inspired and true to all of life where it shines. Num23:19; Tit1:1-2; 2Tim3:16; 2Pet1:19-21. 
  3. Trinity of the Godhead.
  4. ​One God eternally existing as three equal Persons as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Matt28:19; 2Cor13:14

The LIGHT of Jesus 

  1. Deity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God. Isa7:14; Matt1:18-25; Lk1:26-48; John1:1-2, 14  
  2. God and man in the earth 

​The LIGHT of Holy Spirit

Man

  1. Man is created in the image of God and after His likeness. The first man Adam began life innocent, totally dependent, and obedient to God. Gen1:26-27; 2:7 
    1. Every individual human is created by God in His image and after His likeness as male or female. Gen1:26-27; 5:2; 9:6; Jer1:5
  2. I believe that God personally and sovereignly created gender equality and there remains to this very second only two genders for humanity… male and female. God gifts each one of His created male and female human beings with their own individual and unique personhood and He gives to each His choice of skin color. Isa46:9-10, Gen1:26-27, 5:1-2, 9:6; Ps139:13-16; Job10:11; Eph1:4, Rev17:8
  3. I believe that God created and loves each and every individual male and female perfectly and unconditionally. Ex34:6; John3:16; IJohn4:8-10 
  4. I believe the first man Adam disobeyed the command of God by eating from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam's disobedience resulted in the fall of humanity from a life of dependency, innocence, and obedience to God to a state of sin, rebellion, and guilty disobedience. The fall of Adam brought sin and death to all of humanity. All men from Adam are born with a sin nature. All of humanity is born totally depraved with a bias towards sin and thus are spiritually dead to God their Creator. Gen 2:16-7; 3:6-12; Psa51:5; Rom3:10, 11, 19, 23; 5:12, 14; Jam1:14-15 
  5. I believe that man’s only hope for salvation is the Grace of God sovereignly and divinely offered in the redeeming substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ. Tit2:11-14; Eph2:8, 9: Rom5:8 
  6. I believe that salvation is eternal for whosoever wills to put his or her faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and are thereby forever born again by Holy Spirit. Rom3:21-25, 10:9-10; John5:24; 10:28-30; 1Cor12:13 
  7. I believe the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ died for all of humanity. The sacrificial and substitutionary death of Jesus is available to all of humanity, but each soul must individually exercise faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ for salvation to be appropriated to him or her. John3:16; Rom10:9-10; 1John2:2 
  8. I believe in the justification and the regeneration of the believing sinner who is being transformed from death to life as a saint and member of the body and universal church of the Living Lord Jesus Christ. Rom5:1, 9, 12:1-2; Tit3:5; 1Cor5:17, 12:13 
  9. I believe in the imminent, personal, and bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ for His body the church. Acts 1:11; 1Thess 3:16; Rev 1:7 
  10. I believe in the resurrection of all the unbelieving dead to their final assignment of eternal woe and death. John5:28, 29; Rev20:1-15
  11. I believe in the resurrection of all believers who sleep in Christ to eternal life with Jesus as Lord and King. John5:28, 29; Rev20:1-15   

So help me God… Minister Charles Sanders Porter,
The LIGHT Comes Ministries, Inc 
BA in Bible ~ Carver College (Formerly Carver Bible College and Institute) Atlanta GA 1986 ​
MACS Luther Rice College and Seminary Lithonia GA 2016

Current serving as Lay Minister Atlanta Bible Baptist Church, Decatur, GA

and New Testament Professor Carver College, Atlanta GA


​TheLIGHT Comes Ministries

"Because I live you will live also." John14:19

I never sought to preach or teach God’s Word… "there is no bout a doubt that" the LORD led me to the corner of Nelson and Haynes streets the then GPS location of Carver Bible College in Atlanta GA. 


God my Creator DID NOT bring me to Carver Bible College to train in ministry as a missionary, a preacher nor a pastor! No, He brought me to Carver Bible College to learn how to live in the light of His Word. The godly men and women images of God at Carver Bible College nurtured me in the Bible as Holy Spirit enabled me to hear God my Father speak personally to me. Through the years of personal time with the living God of the Bible… His Word is become His Lamp to my feet, and His Light to my path” Psa119:105. 

After years in ignorant arrogance, living deep in the darkness of sin I considered myself unworthy of the great love, rich mercy and amazing grace of the living God. Yet He counts me worthy as He daily creates in me His desire and thirst for His life that constantly draws me into the marvelous Light of His Word

Yesterday… I was the image of God existing in the darkness of sin and death!! I have seen His great Light!!! 


...shining the light!


Today… enabled by Holy Spirit I continue to grow in learning and living the life of Christ. And by His grace, under the mighty power of His Spirit I proclaim to all human male and female images of God living in the darkness of sin and death … The LIGHT Comes!