Pastor Fred Jenkins

Pastor Fred Jenkins formed St. Luke’s Pentecostal Church in the Town of North Hempstead back in 1979.  The church leased basement space; it rented for years as it saved to buy a permanent home.  In 1997, St. Luke’s finally purchased a piece of property, with a partially constructed church already built.  The Church spent the next two years seeking the Town’s permission to complete the construction.  And then, shortly after the Church finally obtained a court judgment allowing it to build, the Town moved to condemn the property.