Our Shepherd

Pastor Montreal Dukes is a native of Fort Worth.  He is also a proud graduate of Prairie View A&M University where he met the love of his life Lady Edwina.  Pastor Dukes graduated from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University with a Masters of Divinity in 2011.  He accepted the Lord’s call and will for his life in 2003 as a preacher of the Gospel.  A proud product of The Rising Star Church of God in Christ, Pastor Dukes was lead by God to leave and serve under the late Overseer Roy E. West at Strangers Rest Baptist Church.  In 2008, Pastor Dukes heeded to the voice of God and founded Christ Lifters Community of Faith. For 17 years he has faithfully served Christ Lifters. In 2017 he was awarded the Bishop Paul S. Morton Emerging Churches Award for Pastoral Excellence. After serving in various capacities in the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International, Pastor Dukes was elevated in 2025 to the office of General Overseer. He currently serves as the Recording Secretary for the Bishops Council of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International. Pastor Dukes is a humble servant leader who loves God and loves God’s people. He has a passion for preaching the Word of God for the glory of God so that the lives of those who may have ears to hear experience life impacting change. Pastor Dukes is a Jeremiah 3:15 Pastor who means Jesus.

The Fragrance of The House

Lady Edwina West-Dukes is also a native of Fort Worth.  She is a graduate of Prairie View A&M University and the University of Texas at Arlington.  She is an anointed preacher of the Gospel and prayer warrior who believes in the power of intercessory prayer through touching and agreeing. Evangelist Dukes accepted God’s call to preach in 2005 under the leadership of the late Overseer Roy E. West.  As a child trained up in the way she should go, First Lady Dukes has been serving God’s Kingdom most of her life in various capacities including youth minister, Sunday School teacher, intercessory prayer leader and church event coordinator.  In 2022 she was appointed the very first regional director of the Daughters of the Promise (Women’s Fellowship) whose husband wasn’t a bishop. In the legacy of her father, Overseer Roy E. West, Evangelist Dukes has never met a stranger and to know her is to love her.  She has a passion for ministry and a prophetic anointing to speak life into the lives of God’s People. In the spirit of her father she had never met a stranger and to know her is to love her.