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Pastor Dawn, Senior Pastor
Pastor Dawn is the Senior Pastor. Her responsibilities include preaching and teaching the Word of God.
Pastor Dawn has been teaching and ministering in churches since she was a teenager. She has been teaching professionally for more than 25 years and the majority of those have been at the collegiate level.
She holds the BA in Liberal Studies from Shaw University, the MA in English with a concentration in Professional and Technical Communications from East Carolina University, and PhD in Christian Counseling from Christian Leadership University.
Pastor Dawn serves as the Senior Administrator of Peletah Academic Center for Excellence. She currently serves as a member of the North Carolina Faith and Justice Alliance Steering Committee, NC Task Force to address Early Care and Education, Suspension, Expulsion and Exclusion Practices, and the NC state-wide Trauma Summit Steering Committee.
She served on the Board of Directors for Coastal Community Action, Inc. She was awarded the 2017 Craven County NAACP Woman of the Year, 2015 Craven County NAACP Humanitarian Award, 2012 Lamplighter’s Award by the Neuse-Pamlico Sound Women’s Coalition for her work with coordinating the local efforts for 8 Days of Hope and serving as the Founder Chairperson of the Pamlico County Disaster Recovery Coalition. Pastor Dawn is passionate about teaching and empowering people to reach their God-given potential.
Pastor Dawn Baldwin Gibson, is the widow of Pastor Anthony Gibson. They were married for 18 years and have three children: Minister Spencer, (Prophetess Malika) Kaitlyn, and Hannah (deceased) and four grandchildren (Phillip Alexander, Issac Anthony, Leah Abigail, and Luke Andre)
Peletah Ministries
Peletah Ministries is a place where we are passionately seeking and serving God. Our prayer is that you would be blessed and strengthened by the power of Jesus Christ and that you will live a life of abundance in fellowship, joy and liberty. Peletah is here for you. We are a fellowship of believers coming together to declare the glory of the Lord and celebrate Jesus as King. We study the Word, practice what we learn and in the process grow together. At Peletah, we focus on identifying the call of God on your life and empowering you to develop as well as thrive in the giftings that God placed in you. We are excited about seeing the unsaved, unchurched, and those not attending church come into Peletah’s fold. May God richly bless you!
What is Peletah?
Deliverance hebrew meaning
( Peleytah or Peletah = pel-ay-taw )-
to set free- to take and hand over to or leave for another to assist in giving birth, to aid in the birth of, to give birth to, to cause oneself to produce as if by giving birth to send something aimed or guided to an intended target or destination, to come through with.
Gen 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. The word “Deliverance” (Genesis 45:7) “peletah” which means deliverance, escape; escaped remnant, fugitive, survivor, band of survivors . This word is rooted in the Hebrew word “palit” (Strongs 06412) which means escaped one, fugitive. The word “palit” is in turn rooted in the word “palat” (Strongs 06403) which means to slip out, to escape. So in the word “deliverance” of Genesis 45:7 we also see that it is pointing to a remnant that will escape the coming affliction. The word “posterity” (Strongs 07611 “shehayreeth”) also means a residue, remnant, what is left, the remainder and reinforces the core meaning of the “deliverance” declaration that he has made a preparation plan for a specific remnant of Jacob that is given a promise of escape.
Our Mission & Vision
The mission of Peletah Ministries is to love God, to love others, and to magnify the name of Jesus Christ. The vision of our church is to glorify our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, to make true disciples throughout all the nations by means of missionary activity and support, to minister the ordinances, to edify believers, and to do all that is sovereignly possible and biblically permissible to magnify the name of Jesus. It is our mission to assist believers in stirring up the gifts that God has endowed them and for them to develop those giftings to edify the Body of Christ. What we believe: Please download our full doctrinal statement.
