in World News Denzel Washington Baptized, Becomes Minister During Livestream In NYC Church
By Amanda Harding
“I just want to be in that number when the saints go marching in,” the actor said.
Actor Denzel Washington was baptized and presented with a minister license, which allows him to become ordained in the future, during a Facebook livestream on Saturday.
The event occurred at Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
At one point, Washington took the microphone to reflect on what being baptized meant to him. “In one week I turn 70,” he said, per Today. “It took a while, but I’m here.”
Later on, he told a story about meeting a woman at his mother’s beauty parlor when he was 20.
“She said, ‘Boy, you are going to travel the world and preach to millions of people,’” the “Gladiator II” star said. “She wouldn’t even spell the word prophecy. My mother wrote the word prophecy…50 years later, look at God. If He can do this for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you. The sky literally is the limit and there’s no limit to the sky.”
Washington also said he was thankful for his “loving, faithful wife,” Pauletta Washington. The pair has been married since 1983.