RICHMOND, Va. — A Richmond pastor is being honored by his church community and the city of Richmond with the renaming of a street corner for his decades of service to the community.
Pastor Robert Winfree has led the New Life Deliverance Tabernacle off Decatur Street in Richmond for over 28 years, but his service to the community stretches far beyond the doors of this church building.
Under Winfree’s guidance, the NLDT operates a food pantry for the hungry, maintains a separate church home to give people going through housing instability secure place to regain independence and a youth ministry targeting at risk teens in the city.
“God has called us out to feed the hungry clothing, naked visit the second and widow go in prisons and doors and set the cap free to educate those who need to be educated,” Winfree said. “That’s our mission.”
Pastor Winfree’s leadership caught the attention of city counselors, Ellen Robertson and Stephanie Lynch who submitted a resolution at the beginning of January to rename the corner of Decatur Street and 9th Street in the pastor’s honor.
Lynch says that the resolution passed on January 27.
Winfree will be honored Saturday near the NLDT on the corner of Decatur and 9th St at 1 p.m., but the pastor says the physical recognition pales in compared to the work he hopes the street naming will inspire.
“What I do, I do it because it’s natural I do it because this is who I am or at least that’s who I’ve become,” Winfree said. “I am honored to be honored, but the biggest thing is if the name might change 10 to 20 years from now, but if I can leave the life that I’m living now, especially to my kids then I will have a living monument.”
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