Word Alive Church In Christ

05/27/2026

Pastor: It's Not A Career Or A "Job" That We've Chosen To Do...
It's A Life and A Lifestyle We've Been Called and Set Aside To Live!
14 Years Ago Today, On May 27, 2012 I Was Ordained Into The
Baptist Clergy And Began Walking In The Pastoral Ministry.

And Every Day Of My Life Since, I Have Determined, Despite All My Human Failures, Faults and Propensity to Fall Into Foolishness, To Stay True To The 3 Things That The LORD Told Me I Would Need To "Be" In Order To Walk In The Ministry To Which He Had Called Me:

Be Available.
Be Willing; and
Be Faithful.

📖 I Timothy 1:12 📖
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

I Thank God Because I Have Been Blessed To Serve As An Associate Pastor Alongside Several "Good and Faithful Servants" and Continue To This Day To Be Mentored By and Enjoy The Privilege of Being In The Company of Some Of The "Best Black Baptist Pastors, Preachers, Teachers and Church Leaders On This Side of Heaven!"

While These 14 Years Have Not All Been Easy (God Never Promised That It Would Be...) It Still Goes Without Saying That My Life, My Family, and My Ministry Have All Been Blessed Immeasurably. It Would Take Another 14 Years for Me To List The Many Blessings That Have Come Our Way As A Result of Staying Faithful To The LORD's Call.

Most of All, I Thank God for
My 🙌🏾Word Alive Church In Christ AND
My Shiloh Baptist Church Norwood🙌🏾 Family!

I Continue To Look Forward To The Many, Magnificent, Majestic, Marvelous and Even Miraculous Things That Our Great & Mighty God Is 'Yet Fixin To Do' In Us, For Us and Through Us... As The Bible Says In 📖 I Corinthians 2:9 📖:

"...Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

My Most Effectual and Fervent Prayer Is That All-a-Y'all Will...

Join Us As We Journey Through This Life With Our Risen LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, Right Here At:

👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 www.WordAliveChurchInChrist.org 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾

The God Will Bless YOU and Keep YOU...
My Brother, My Sister, That Is Always, Always... Our 🙏🏾!

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries

Associate Pastor
Shiloh Baptist Church Norwood

Rev. Kelvin J. Anthony
Senior Pastor/Teacher

Founder & Pastor
Word Alive Church In Christ

Evangelist Mary Merritt
First Lady & Co-Pastor

05/04/2026

I wanted to give our Faithful Followers an update. The Word Alive Community Campus is on Hold due to Birmingham Re-Zoning approval. Birmingham is experiencing a Housing Crisis. Therefore, we have decided to go in a New direction to assist our Birmingham Homeowners who are experiencing per-foreclose or high vacancy rates by establishing subleasing for corporate renters. This will promote an increase of home equity and improved credit for Homeowners, stronger community stability in neighborhoods and overall increase economic stability for Birmingham. This is the Merritt Family Enterprises Transitional/Corporate Leasing Housing Program. This Initiative provides clean, safe and Community for Veterans, Working Professionals, Traveling Nurses, Municipal Contractors and alike in need of Short-To Medium Term Housing (30 to 180 Days). We in development of our new website to recruit Homeowners/Corporate Insurance Companies and other entities to benefit as they grow. As this program grows, a second initiative will be our Lease to Own Program for Low Income Families.
We, the Merritt Family Enterprises have been bootstrapping the Transitional/Corporate Leasing Housing Program that is now at the end of its Starting Phase. Our Target for this fundraiser is $450.00, our Target for this Fiscal Quarter is $3000.00 for 1 House/ $5000.00 for 2 Houses, so I ask could You give a donation to the cause. Please Donate at the GoFundme

Merritt Family Enterprises, LLC was founded by individuals who have personal… Mary MERRITT needs your support for Support Housing for Veterans & Professionals

05/01/2026

🗣️Today Is Not Just "May Day." It's Our Anniversary At WACIC!🙌🏾
We Need All-a-Y'all To Help Us Celebrate 6 Years of Sending God's
WORD 4WORD And Then C'mon And Join Us As We Continue To
Journey Through Life With The Risen Savior Jesus Christ Here At:

👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 https://www.WordAliveChurchInChrist.org 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾

First Lady Evangelist Mary Merritt and I Could Not Possibly Be More Grateful For The Great Grace, The Enduring Mercy, The Manifold and Manifested Blessings and The Unconditional Love That Our Great, Gracious, Mighty and Merciful God Has Literally Caused To "Rain Down On Us" Since We Answered The LORD's Call and Took A Great Leap of Faith To Launch A "Virtual Church" In The Middle of A Rising Pandemic Just Because God Told Us To Do It... So We Did!🙌🏾

And Just As We Have Learned In Almost 27 Years of Active Ministry In The Church, "What God Ordains, He Also Maintains." As We Celebrate Still Being Here After 6 Years and Step Into The 7th Year Which Y'all Already Knonw Is The "Year of Completion" We Just Want To Share A Few Key Lessons We Have Learned Along The Way And As Always, We Pray, That What We Share Here Today Will Help Someone Along The Way As We All Journey Through This Life With Our Risen Lord And Savior Jesus Christ!

First, We Must Express Our Endless Appreciation and Our Limitless Love For Our Bishop, Our Pastor, and Most of All, Our Friend, Rev. Kelvin J. Anthony, The Senior Pastor of The Shiloh Baptist Church Norwood. We Want The Whole World To Know and We Are Not At All Ashamed To Say That... Were It Not For His Pastoral Leadership, His Patient and Loving Guidance, His Personal Mentorship and His "I-Can-Show-Ya Better Than I-Can-Tell-Ya" Example We Can State Unequivocally and With Absolute Certainty That NONE of The Great Things That Have Come Through Our Church and Its Ministry Could Have or Would Have Happened. We Owe Our Bishop, Our Pastor and Our Friend A Debt We Know We Can Never Repay.

We Also Acknowledge That Pastor KJ Has Taught Us The Single Biggest Lesson We Have Learned In and About Church Ministry and That Is This: "You Don't Have To Be A BIG Church To Do Great Things For The Kingdom, For The LORD and For The People That God Sends to You For You To Serve." To This Very Day, Our Pastor Continues To Show Us That, Truth Be Told, You Can Actually Do MORE If You're "Just A Little Church With BIG Faith!"

And Finally, Two Immutable and Indisputable Facts That Any and Every Pastor, Preacher, Teacher or (Aspiring) Church Ministry Leader Should Know, and What We Believe Our Own Life, Walk and Ministry Shows Are These:

God ALWAYS RESPONDS To Faith... Without Fail;
and
God ALWAYS REWARDS Faithfulness... With Blessings On Blessings!

📖I Timothy 1:12 📖
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,
for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

To All-a-Y'all Who Are Members of The WACIC Family,
Happy Anniversary! and "U Already Kno..."
"We Love Y'all Beyond Words... Only Deeds Will Do For You!"
Da Preacher & The Evangelist - The "Dunamis Duo."

Take That WORD 4WORD With You On Today and Remember...
That God Will Bless YOU and Keep YOU...
My Brother, My Sister, That Is Always, Always... Our Prayer!🙏🏾

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt aka Da Preacher From
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries
Founder & Pastor

Evangelist Mary Merritt
First Lady & Co-Pastor

Word Alive Church In Christ

04/17/2026

https://gofund.me/424ac55c3

03/15/2026

America Is Afflicted With A 3-Fold Sickness That's Killing It/Us...
Bigotry & Hatred - Fueling Unrepentant, Unrestricted Racism...
Arrogance & Hubris - Embodied In Our Reckless Militarism...
Corruption & Greed - "Rugged Individualism" aka Capitalism...

This Diagnosis Is By No Means New... In August of 1967, At
The First National Conference on New Politics, Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Delivered It In A Speech to That Organization.
His Positions On The Matter Were So Accurate and Profound That The Speech Was Printed, Published and Widely Disseminated. He Also Spoke To It From A Spiritual Perspective In Several of His Sermons.

Exactly 1 Year Before His Death, On April 4, 1967, At Riverside Church In New York City, Dr. King Officially Broke His Silence About The War In Vietnam in A Speech Entitled "Beyond Vietnam." In That Speech, He Confirmed His Commitment to Fighting The "Triple Evils" of Poverty, Racism and Militarism By Reminding And Warning Us That

"A Nation That Continues Year After Year To Spend More Money
On Military Defense Than On Programs Of Social Uplift Is
Approaching Spiritual Death."

Some Historians, Scholars and Writers Have Argued That, With The
Delivery of That Speech, Dr. King and His Organization, The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) "Officially" Expanded The Fight for Civil Rights In America From A Battle to Obtain Rights and Privileges of Citizenship For Blacks and Other Minorities In America to A "War Against Poverty" and A Fight For Both Social Justice and Economic Equality.

Others, (Myself Included) Argue That His "Coming Out Against The War In Vietnam" Led To Dr. King's Fall From Favor in America. It Led To His Being Labeled "Un-American" and Being Called A "Traitor." It Subsequently Led to Many of His Followers, Funders, Political and Social Supporters Abandoning Both Dr. King and The Movement.

This Isolated Dr. King Politically and Socially So Much So That, When He Was Killed A Year Later On April 4, 1968, He Was Not The "Universally Loved And Accepted Civil Rights Leader" That He Has Come To Be Known As Today (A Fact That Many Historians, Politicians and Social Commentators Conveniently Forget).

I Also Find It Interesting, Personally, That A Study Of The Rise and Fall of Kings, of God's People Israel, And Of The Nations, Cultures and Societies Around Them In The Bible Reveals That All Three of These "Dis-eases" Hatred, Hubris and Greed... Were Both Present and Derived From Character Flaws Related To Individual (Personal) Immorality and Spiritual Depravity Manifested As Character Deficiencies That Always Seemed To Start with Individuals (Typically The Kings/Rulers/Leaders) But Were Then Purposefully Perpetuated Enabling Them To Spread Like A Contagion That Ultimately Infects Whole Nations, Cultures and Societies....

If You've Read This Far, You've Passed The Test! I Wrote This Long Post To See How Many "True Followers & Friends" I Have That Will Read What I Post Even Without Pictues and/or Videos...

If You're One Of My "True Followers & Friends" and You Wanna Let Me Know It... Please Like, Comment (and Maybe Even Share It).

I Won't Ask You To Copy-Paste or Post This On Your Timeline Unless
You Wanna Find Out Who Your "True Followers & Friends" Are Too.

Thanks and God Bless!🙏🏾

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt, aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries

Founder & Pastor
Word Alive Church In Christ

03/06/2026

🗣️We're Inviting All-a-Y'all (Yes That Means 🫵🏾YOU🫵🏾Too!)
To Come and "Join Us On The Journey" At The New & Improved
👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 https://www.WordAliveChurchInChrist.org 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾
As We Continue To Send The 📖WORD📖4WORD!🙌🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

After 5 and 1/2 Years, We've Been Forced, Due To Technical
Circumstances Beyond Our Control, To Move On From Our
Partnership With The Daily Gospel Network, Which Hosted Both
Our Website And Our Weekly Broadcast Since June of 2020.

We Will Be Making More Ministry Moves To Maintain Our Mission
"To Preach The Whole Word of God To The Whole World of Men."
And We Invite All-a-Y'all To Join Us As We Journey Through Life
With The Risen Savior Jesus Christ, Right Here At:

Word Alive Church In Christ!

That God Will Bless & Keep YOU...
My Brother, My Sister, That Is Always, Always... Our Prayer!🙏🏾

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt, aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries
Founder & Pastor

Evangelist Mary Merritt
First Lady & Co-Pastor

01/22/2026

🗣️When You're "Pushin Hard" Just 1 Month Away From Sixty-FO
And God Keeps "Wakin You Up n-da-Morn'n" with Git-Up-And-GO
Enough to Pull A Short Shift Where You Clean Out 7 Trailers And U
Just Gotta Do A Lil Dance On The Dock and Say 🗣️"ThankYaLawd!"

Just One Of Those Days When There's Nothing Going On... "It's
Just Another Day's Journey, and I'm Glad..."
(In My Old Baptist Deacon Voice!)

That God Will Bless YOU and Keep YOU...
My Brother, My Sister, That Is Always, Always... Our Prayer!🙏🏾

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt, aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries

Founder & Pastor
Word Alive Church In Christ

01/19/2026

🗣️This is a Re-Post of One I Put Out Back In August of 2025.
The Circumstances & Situations of My Beloved Church Here
In Birmingham AL Have Not Changed Very Much Since Then
So I'm "Putting Myself Out There" In Response To God's Call...

And Under The Leading of The Holy Spirit...

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries

Founder & Pastor
Word Alive Church In Christ

12/26/2025

12/24/2025

🗣️Grace & Peace and Merry Christmas to All-a-Y'all!🙌🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
Here's The "Faith WORD 4WORD Focus Point" For WACIC For 2026:
Get Ready! Because There Are Some "Broken Things" In Your Lives
That God Says: 🗣️"I'm Gonna Fix In 2026!" So, If You've Suffered:

Broken Friendships; Broken Relationships, Broken Marriages,
Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Broken Finances, Broken
Opportunities to Reach Your Goals... If In 2025 You've Experienced:

A Broken Heart Because You've Lost Some Friends and Loved Ones
You Were Close To; If You've Experienced Some Setbacks and You
May Be At The Point Of Wondering Whether Or Not God Sees You,
Hears Your Prayers, or You Might Even Be Wondering If God Really
and Truly Cares About YOU... The LORD Has Told Me To Tell You
This...

🗣️"It's ALL Gonna Get FIXED In 2026!"

That's The WORD We're Sending 4WORD For Our Church This Year.

📖 Revelation 21:4-5(a)📖
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
new...

So Get Ready Because God's About To Renew The Relationship That
Once Existed Between The LORD and You... God's Gonna Restore
Everything You Feel Like Life Has Taken Away From You.

And If It Feels Like All You Have To End The Year With Is Being
Surrounded By A Bunch of Broken People and Broken Things, Let
Me Say It Again... Get Ready My Friend... Because God Says:

🗣️"It's ALL Gonna Get FIXED In 2026!"

Take That WORD 4WORD With You Today and Be Blessed!

And Always Remember, That God Will Bless & Keep YOU...
My Brother, My Sister, That Is Always, Always... Our Prayer!🙏🏾

Rev. Dr. Von Merritt, aka Da Preacher from
The Preacher's Page at Word Alive Ministries

Founder & Pastor
Word Alive Church In Christ

Evangelist Mary Merritt
First Lady & Co-Pastor