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Bishop Connie is a graduate of Roosevelt University and has worked in the Chicago Public and Private Parochial School system. She was instrumental in helping to organize three Day Care Centers. This experience led to the opening of the Church of God Day Care Center in 1976. The Board of Directors as a result of these efforts hired her as the youngest Administrative Director in the city of Chicago. Bishop Connie has continued to work diligently to establish food any youth programs. These programs have not only provided food for the community but also more than 5,000 jobs through C.E.T.A She has worked with the community and business leader to vitalize and upgrade business, housing conditions while also speaking out to secure the needs of our senior citizens.
Bishop Connie has received numerous awards including: the Outstanding Musician Award (Oscar Brown Jr. “Opportunity Please Knock”), The Award for Outstanding Black Business Women from the (Elite Society), Congressional Award (former Congressmen Gus Savage & Mel Reynolds) and many, many more. These prestigious awards are a symbol of the power, intelligence, and spiritual presence of Bishop Bansa. As an executive board member of the American Clergy Leadership for Americans, she was invited to speak, pray, and prophesy at many national as well as international spiritual events: which include Korea, Alaska, Europe, Russia, Italy, Africa, Belgium, Jerusalem and China (just to name a few). She was given one of the greatest honors when she was chosen to speak at the United Nations about striving towards peace and prosperity in Africa. The Divine inspiration was given to Bishop Connie to reach out to the spiritual and community leaders all over the world to become unified in a spiritual movement. This movement, the “Jericho Walk”, is the platform to Bishop Bansa’s vision of “tearing down walls and building bridges”. She chose the name “Jericho Walk” to symbolize the destruction of the Jericho Wall. Bishop Bansa is the founder and currently the CEO of the worlds renowned “Jericho Walk.” It is her vision to tear down the barriers that have so long separated Americans. We propose to build these bridges person by person, just as one could build a brick wall. There are no magical conversions that would prove to be shortcuts. The craftsmanship of the wall has to be woven into the fiber of its construction. To do otherwise would be to insure its ultimate weakness and eventual failure. This will be tedious work, but it must be done. In the Chicago Defender (March, 2003) it was written: “A woman’s faith brings Jericho walls down”. Bishop Bansa devotes her time to bringing down the wall of separation in our neighborhoods, cities, nations, and the world. The purpose of the Jericho Walk is to tear down the walls of racism, isolation, poverty, fear, and violence in order to build up bridges of love, peace and understanding all over the world. |
