HAVING copped the top prize for Best Resource Book in the recent Kingdom Indie Author Awards for My Father’s Business, Bishop Romeon Facey is on a mission to share more with the world through his writing.

My Father’s Business provides Christians with a road map from God for a path to entrepreneurship.

Facey, who is pastor of the Freedom Evangelical Association, said the vision behind this book predated the COVID-19 pandemic when he was warned by God of an economic shift that would reshape the world.

“I was in prayer one morning and the Lord gave me a book called
My Father’s Business… God was beginning to tell me that there was a restructuring of the world economy that was coming… and I should write a book to empower Christians to become entrepreneurs and to use principles of the word of God to advance their business[es] and to grow [them] at an exponential rate,” Facey told the Jamaica Observer.

He argued that the socio-economic conditions and the hustling culture which has enveloped Jamaica are major causes of the criminality facing country.

“Most young people are doing jobs that don’t create wealth, so the book was there towards stepping into the world of business to create and manage wealth, and how to use the word of God to generate expansion in business,” said Facey.

He expressed delight and surprise in his award, as he faced competition from 50 other candidates to get to the final before being named the winner in the Best Resource Book category in the competition hosted by Dayelight Publishers.

“It was a great experience… I never knew that… there were so many young Christian authors, even secular authors, but Jamaica has a large amount of persons who write books, and they are not valued for their work… it is nice to see so many young people who are writing,” Facey said.

He pointed out that behind My Father’s Business is a story of his connection to God cultivated by years of personal connection and divine revelation.

Facey told the Observer that his relationship with God was not always as strong as it is today.

He said, like many teenagers, he was uninterested in pursuing a relationship with God until he reached the age of 16 when he gave his life to God. According to Facey, it was a pivotal moment that led him to commit fully to God.

“One day I was sitting down watching [television] and… it turned on this Christian station and the lady was singing When He Was on the Cross, I Was on His Mind, and the presence of God came into the room… My knees started shaking, I fell to the ground, the Lord was standing before me… I could feel every weight of sin, every wrong thing that I did, I knew at that moment if God was supposed to judge me and send me to Hell, it would be just… I called on the name of Jesus and for the first time I felt peace,” said Facey.

He said this would be only one of the many spiritual enlightenments that he would encounter until he was faced with the decision to become a pastor.

Facey said he never wanted to become a preacher in the first place but was confronted with that path through a dream — confirmed by a group of worshippers — that he would be the next Billy Graham.

The late Graham was an American evangelist whose broadcast and live sermons became well known internationally.

“I went to church that evening… the people in the church started praying over me and they started prophesying over me and they said, ‘God is gonna use him all over the world, he’s gonna become the Billy Graham of his generation,’ and when they said that it broke me down because I never told anybody about the dreams that I was having,” said Facey.

This prodded him to seek a stronger relationship with God, which he said he enjoys today and has pushed him to further his ambitions as an author through his first book Unveiling the Mysteries of Darkness That Triumph the Kingdom of God and eventually My Father’s Business.

Facey plans to release a prayer book this year as well as Jewels For My Daughter — a literary piece the bishop looks forward to delivering to the Jamaican people.