Busta’s Person of the Week: Local bishop ministers to the whole man: body, soul and spirit

By Busta Brown This past Father’s Day, the congregation at Whole Man Ministries learned the most valuable gift a father can give his children: “I can give my kids a house or a car. But you know what? The greatest gift is to give them the word of God. To give them a relationship with Him. Because one day I may not be in their lives. And people go and come, family members come and go. But one thing that is there for eternity and that is God.  “God was saying to Abraham, I know he’s going to teach his children about me. I know he’s going to tell them how he got him through.  “For the greatest gift is that I show my children that I have to call on God’s name. That I must pray, I have to believe in God and that they have to trust and see me serving him. I must be honest, Busta, I started to cry during the sermon, because I said, man, I’ve done my job. If I have pointed them toward God, I’ve done my job,” said Bishop Barry Washington. He’s the senior pastor at Whole Man Ministries in Winston-Salem, and...