Reverend Walter Young
Born March 23, 1979 in Houston, TX to Walter Demas and Ida Young, Walter was brought up in Fellowship Church of Jesus Christ under the leadership of Elder J.R. Johnson. There I began to accept his calling of the “Holy and Forever Young’s” choir with his mother and three siblings. I began playing the drums at the age of 9. Being the youngest of four kids and being raised
by a single mother, I learned how to appreciate what you have in life. So one day on my 11th birthday, my mom told me that if she was to spend her last on a keyboard, I better give it my all. I began to train my listening skills and taught myself to play gospel and jazz.
Throughout my teenage years, I had endured a lot of turmoil and heartaches, and people began to categorize me another wasteful youth. In my mother’s eyes, I was still that child with potential. My mom, who suffered from Epilepsy Seizures, would have spells on a regular basis and often in public. To keep from going to the ER every time, I began providing medical attention for her. Though this process, I knew I wanted to be in the medical field when I grew up.
My senior year of high school, we found ourselves living on the streets but my mother was determined for me to graduate regardless. A bond was made that immediately after graduation; I would go to a community college to become a Paramedic, work days. God always have plans that work on his timing. While one day working in St. Joseph Hospital as Chef, I saw a patients name that was similar to my mom’s but the diagnosis was unbelievable. “Radical mastectomy” I couldn’t accept that. God had reunited me back with my mom but not the way I wanted. I never got angry with the Lord but I did make a promise that if he would just give me some time with her, I would give up the immature lifestyle and do my all to make the time left
the best ones.
I was always in church but never grasp on to what was being preached. My mom would sometime go to five different services with me on Sunday and noticed that once I done playing for the choir, I would never hear the word being preach. That day I realized I was at church but never in church. I began bringing the bible with a absorbing the word of god. As a medic, I had
more off day due to my shift to grow, mature, and learn how to be humble. The two years god gave me with my mother really groomed me. That is when I learn that you have to have a desire to change and God would walks those step with you even through hard times.
In 2002, I met an outstanding women by the name of Latorya Green. There was something special about her, she respected the fact that I was so involved with church which took up Friday nights and all day Sunday which left no room for partying on Saturdays. As we began going to church together, our spiritual bond grew stronger. Before I had ask to marry her, I didn’t know if she was prepared to be a preacher wife. I had all sorts of scenario on how to tell her of my calling, because when God wants you to do something, he will break that flesh down until you have no other choice. I told my wife that God has a calling for me. Before I could say anything, she told me that God had already showed her of me becoming a preacher. We married November 8, 2003 and I accepted my calling December 11, 2003. God had been grooming me since a preteen of what he had prepared for me. Like all adolescents, sometime we fall off course but he word says “Faith the size of a little mustard seed”
and God will provide. Together we have 4 children: Ke’Aundra 15, Xavier 12, Deja 10, and Mone’y 8.
He is currently the C.E.O of Young Surgical Inc. specializing in Plastic, Spine, and Pain Management Surgery. He often perform Medical Mission trips in Lagos Nigeria, Ibadan Nigeria, Abuja Nigeria and Rwanda Africa.
Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church
