This memorial website was created in memory of our beloved father and Pastor, Claude Williams, 67, born on April 18, 1950 and passed away on October 29, 2017. We will remember him forever.
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Leave a tributeJean & Donn
I love you granddad ❤️.
Happy 3rd Heavenly Birthday in eternity✝️
It blesses me to know that you and Cel are in the host of guardian angels for the family. You continue to inspire so many with your words that still ring true ~ "stay on God's side". You're missed and will be forever remembered. With a grateful and thankful heart of love.
Jeannie
Renee
Moving forward with God and in His love toward others! I can only imagine what being at rest with the Lord is like! Kisses to all with you!
I hear ya”No matter what, stay on God side and only believe, love and keep doing the Word.” We’re teaching the Word and with God’s help making disciples and changing lives! Celebrating you today!
No matter what, I’m staying on God’s side. Oh the joy you have now!
Love,
Jeannie
I can’t thank you enough for all the things you taught my household
about the value of love, faith, and believing.
Your contribution to my spiritual growth will never suffer a draught because your teachings left know misunderstanding of how it should apply to our daily lives.
Finding a leader to take your place is going to be difficult.
I miss you and First Lady Cece
Until we meet again. I love you
REST IN PARADISE
Pastor Claude, lover of people, compassionate, committed, comedian...Faithman!
Pastor Claude, talked the talk and walked the walk, a doer and no hearer only.
Pastor Claude, unwavering, caring for the VCCC flock and God’s Kingdom.
Pastor Claude, purposed to encourage, inspire and promote the sheep of God’s pasture to aspire to their greatest spiritual potential. Knowing that all other goodness would follow.
Pastor Claude, who raised me up, hallelujah, in the way that I should go and I will not depart from it!
Pastor Claude, the standard and filter, my subconscious self-check.
Pastor Claude, I wanted to make you proud, for you are my spiritual Daddy...
This is a hard place…but God!
I’ll do the word, walk by faith, trust and obey, for the rest of my days!
Honoring you and glorifying our God!
I love you and will miss you until we meet again, my Pastor, Shepherd, Father.
You taught me…
LOVE Always,
Sister Crystal
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Jean & Donn
Possible
On September 3rd, 2017 I sent out an email to a few friends and family asking for donations of $50 to help assist in completing my latest album, "AUX Tales". Pastor Claude was the first to respond, right away as a matter of fact. He said when I came to church on that Sunday that he would have a check for me for $200! That's just the kind of pastor that he was - an above and beyond kind of pastor. Fast forward to Oct 8, which would become the last sermon he preached, and he asked me to close the service in prayer. So after I prayed he asked me how my album coming along and how much more money I needed to reach my goal. I told him the amount and immediately you could almost see his mind going to work; "so that's 20 people giving $100 dollars, basically" he said. Then he added what I knew to be one of his favorite words in the english dictionary- Possible.
So the last word that I recall Pastor Claude Williams, the man who I cherished, my hero of 41 years saying to me was "possible". I share this because despite the way we feel at this very moment, the hurt, despair, confusion, sense of loss, it is possible to recover. It is possible to continue on in the strength of the Lord. And it's possible to achieve your dreams, even if they seem delayed. To have someone believe in you and believe in your dream(s) is sometimes all you can ask for.
Pastor Claude led a very impactful life. If I can have half of the influence on someone that he had on me then I'm more than ok with that. I hope this blesses someone today and remember that whatever you want in life it's possible.