The spiritual history of New York City goes back over 400 years but has intensified over the last 160 years. In 1857, the Fulton Street Revival began with daily prayer meetings attracting thousands. In the 1950s, Pentecostal experiences entered mainline Protestant churches through ecumenical meetings. In 1977, the first indigenous Bible study formed inside the New York Stock Exchange. BOLD Ministry was founded in 1989 to serve professionals through Bible studies modeled on ones in London.

1. New York City: A Spiritual History
New York City’s Spiritual History goes back over 400
years, but over the last 160 years, the moves of God have
BOLD Ministry become more frequent and with great intensity.
1857: The Fulton Street Revival
In the middle of September 1857, in New York City, Jeremiah Lanphier, a 48 year old
business man turned lay city missionary began a prayer meeting on behalf of the
North Dutch Reformed Church. They met every Wednesday from 12 to 1 o'clock in
the church at the corner of Fulton and William Streets. At the first meeting, out of a
city of 1 million people, six people showed up a half hour late. The group decided to
meet the next week and there were 14. The week following there were 23 and it grew
from there. Within weeks there were thousands of business leaders meeting daily.
God moved so powerfully that the prayer meeting spread across the nation. It is
estimated that nearly 1 million people were converted out of a national population of
35 million, including 10,000 weekly conversions in New York City for a season.
1950’s: Protestant Charismatic Renewals
In the 1950s, David du Plessis, a Pentecostal minister from South Africa, was
visiting the United States of America as world secretary for the Pentecostal Church.
Key Facts & While in Dallas, he felt the call by God to visit the headquarters of the World
Council of Churches in New York. Here he met with many people and an important
Information contact was made with the mainline Churches. The outcome of one of the meetings
that came from this initial contact was in essence, "there is no need to come out of
about BOLD your denomination and join ours; what you have to do is to take the truth out of your
theological deep freezers and put it on the Spirit and you will have a Pentecost".
Ministry And this is what happened. The Pentecostal experience began entering into the
mainline Protestant Churches and it became known as the Pentecostal movement.
1977: New York Stock Exchange Bible Study
A group of New York City-based business professionals formed the first indigenous
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Bible Study inside of the NYSE on the 7 floor in 1977. These individuals included
Raymond C. Forbes, Austin G. Colgate, Terry “Skip” Nagelvoort, George Barnham,
and Henry Kipers. This group of men (and eventually women), felt the need to
come together during the week to study the Bible and to pray. This group is still
meeting.
1984: The New York Fellowship
 NYSE Study – open to NYSE The New York Fellowship began in 1969 with a group of businessmen meeting
employees, Tuesday 8am together for mutual spiritual encouragement. It was incorporated in 1984, adding
fulltime staff, in response to executives who wanted to create a more visible Biblical
 BOLD Tuesday – St. Bart’s presence in the Wall Street area.
small chapel 12:45pm 1989: Business Outreach Lord Directed: BOLD
 Wednesday Study – 74 Trinity In 1989, Hal Rich and Walter Moodie created BOLD Ministry. While on NYC on
Place 8am
assignment with the Royal Bank of Canada, Walter patterned the mission on a bible
study in London. BOLD is the first NY based ministry to model itself upon the
weekly bible study at Great St. Helens at Bishop’s Gate in London, England. Rev.
Dick Lucas, the rector of Great St. Helens, would give weekly half-hour bible
studies with follow-up the next morning. From its early development, BOLD
attracted a long line of Christian leaders who have made significant contributions to
the spiritual landscape over the last 22 years.
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2. Serving Christ in the Marketplace Community since 1989
VISION FOR NYC
BOLD Ministry is one of New York City’s
original marketplace outreaches. It currently
holds meetings in the Financial District,
including the NYSE and every Tuesday at St.
Bart’s Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue.
Our vision is for professionals to:
 Pursue a dynamic and fresh
relationship with God.
 Know the incontrovertible truth and
power of the gospel of Jesus.
 Demonstrate the love of God and the
power of His reality in the marketplace
and in their community.
 Cultivate a culture within their circle of
At the NYSE (From L to R): Freddie, Pete, Johanna, Marshall, Anthony influence where people are aware of
the purpose and peace of God.
MISSION
"If redemption has to reach as far as sin has gone,
and power has been corrupted by the fall, then power To present the reality of and the call to a
itself has been one of the objects of redemption." transformational relationship with God through
Jesus Christ’s redemptive act.
– Tom Marshall, 1991
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
WANT MORE? Gordon Brown, Christine DeCurtis, CJ
DeSantis (CFO), Lucinda Lysek, Christopher
Get More… McLoughlin, Vaughn Weimer (Chairman)
boldministry.org GO BOLD
facebook.com/BOLDMinistry Pray – for spiritual renewal of NYC and the
marketplace
twitter.com/boldministry Connect - with the BOLD Community on
Tuesday or Wednesday
linkedin.com: BOLD Ministry, Inc. Collaborate with the courageous
Reach out – activate weekly teaching in your
slideshare.net/boldministry sphere of influence, invite friends to
meetings/events
engageforbusiness.com Give - through resources of time, money,
skills/talents and influence
BOLD Ministry, Inc.
221 Lake Terrace, Bradley Beach, NJ, 07720
212.842.1052 boldministry.org boldministry@gmail.com
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