Pastor Cowan is Honored With Dinner Celebration

By Journalist Ms. Jones

NEWBURGH – Pastor Ralph Cowan, pastor of Mount Triumphant Church of God in Clintondale, was honored for his decades of being in ministry with services held Thursday, November 16 through Sunday, November 19. The culmination was a banquet at the Ramada Inn in Newburgh that was held on Sunday, November 19, where congregation members, family, and friends celebrated Pastor Cowan with his 13th Appreciation Dinner Celebration.

The theme was “Favor for your Labor.”

The celebration was hosted by his wife Prophetess Norma Cowan and Sharon Redley who has known Pastor Cowan since she was a youth.

“Pastor Cowan’s known me personally from Jamaica… When my mom took sick here in America… I live in the Bronx and Pastor Cowan drove all the way, came to the house, prayed with my mother, visit the family, encourage us, pray with us,” said Redley.

Several people made special presentations to Pastor Cowan.

“My dear friend… Pastor Cowan… adds glory to every individual in the community, for every person that he comes in presence with,” said Jonathan Ridgeway, Color Guard Chairman Emeritus of Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York. He presented Pastor Cowan with the Color Guard Chairman Emeritus Medallion in the highest distinction.

Juan Figueroa presented Pastor Cowan with a Challenge Coin from the NYS Police.

“I give this to you because I know that you help people like we do in our communities,” said Figueroa, a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran and retired police officer.

Pastor Cowan is originally from Jamaica and came from very humble beginnings.

“I come here when I was nineteen years old… I come here as a farm worker… I start in Highland and pick apples and then I go to Florida, cut sugar cane and then come back to New York and then God give the vision to come in the ministry and then I get involved in bible school… Then, he give us a vision to start a work… We start from in the ‘70s. We used to go to people house and have Prayer Meeting. Then, when I moved to Plattekill… we had a little house there that I rent and we set up the church on the porch and we start worshipping and then from there God bless us to rent the house where we were and then after rent the house the place where the church is now… We purchase it in ’92,” said Pastor Cowan who is planning to build a new building that will have a kitchen to use for feeding people in disasters and helping those in financial crisis.

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