LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION commending Pastor Andre Orphee for 23 years of
dedication and service to the Brooklyn and Queens communities

WHEREAS, The character and richness of religious and community life in
this noble Empire State is nourished and fulfilled through the faithful
concern and selfless devotion of those who would commit their energies
and purpose to the ministry of others; and
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to bring full recog-
nition and just tribute to those individuals who distinguish themselves
and the ministry through their unremitting commitment and preeminence of
service; and
WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is justly proud to commend Pastor Andre
Orphee for 23 years of dedication and service to the Brooklyn and Queens
communities; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Andre Orphee was born in Anse-A-Veau, Haiti, on April
9, 1949; and
WHEREAS, After receiving his college degree, at the Lycee Francois
Duvalier de Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he taught secondary
education at the La Foi en Christ Middle School from 1969-1978; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Andre Orphee later married and together with his wife,
they had three wonderful children; and
WHEREAS, In 1981, Pastor Andre Orphee moved to the United States for a
better life; he attended theology school at the Holiness Church of God
in Brooklyn and was ordained as pastor in 1989, by Maurice Guillaume,
Ph.D. in Theology; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Andre Orphee served as the Assistant Pastor at the
Holiness Church of God in Brooklyn for 14 years and, in 2006, he became
the Assistant Pastor at the Olive Mountain Church in Brooklyn, where he
taught Sunday school to both the youth and the elders; and
WHEREAS, He then joined the Shalom Baptist Church in Cambria Heights
in 2010, and today, continues his pastoral career as a Sunday School
Teacher for all the members of the church; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Andre Orphee is diligently spreading the gospel
throughout Brooklyn and Queens, as well as the surrounding communities;
he visits many hospitals to pray for the sick and has gone to multiple
New York City shelters to help feed the homeless; and
WHEREAS, Furthermore, Pastor Andre Orphee has a daily Christian prayer
line, where he has been preaching and praying for the sick throughout
the United States; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Andre Orphee has brought to his ministry an overwhelm-
ing spirit of charity and compassion, acting from vision and enlight-
enment in conducting his administrative and spiritual duties, while
always displaying the highest standards of personal and professional
integrity and dedication; and
WHEREAS, This distinguished man of God has always given enlightenment,
guidance and wisdom to the many entrusted to his care and has adminis-
tered abundantly and unstintingly to the spiritual and corporal needs of
all; and
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body that when a person
of such noble aims and accomplishments is brought to our attention it is
appropriate to publicly and jubilantly proclaim and commend that indi-
vidual for the edification of others; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
commend Pastor Andre Orphee for 23 years of dedication and service to
the Brooklyn and Queens communities, noting his unremitting and compas-
sionate faith and his exemplary service to God, man, and his community,

and extending to him the heartfelt best wishes of this Legislative Body
for a future of purposeful success and well-being; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to Pastor Andre Orphee.