This distinguished gala will feature an exquisite dining experience, uplifting live worship and praise, and an opportunity to gather in fellowship with esteemed guests and faith leaders. Together, we will honor the profound work that God has accomplished through Healing, Love, Forgiveness International Ministries and embrace the continued mission ahead.

Healing Love Forgiveness International Ministries Annual Gala Celebration

Agenda

Master and Mistress of Ceremonies: Charles Reaves and Stefani Reaves

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM:
○Guest Arrival and Registration

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM:
○Welcome Address by MCs Charles and Stefani Reaves
○Sounding of the Shofar by Pastor Andre Best and MC Stefani Reaves

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM:
○Seated Dinner

●Blessing of the meal
●Video Presentation

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM:
○Live Musical Worship Experience

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM:
○Special Address by Rabbi Paul Klaussen

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM:
○Keynote Address and Vision Sharing by Pastors Greg and Tracci Parham

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
○HLF Awards Ceremony

●The Daniel&Elena Robertson Award of Ministerial Excellence & Leadership
●The Gregory A Parham Financial Stewardship Award
●The Julius&Karen White Prophetic Legacy Award
●The LME Enduring Heart Award
●The Lawson-Dyer Mentorship Legacy Award
●The HLF Servant's Heart Award

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM:
○Closing Remarks and Benediction by Linda Clark
○Sounding of the Shofar by Pastor Andre Best and MC Stefani Reaves

7:15 PM - 7:30 PM
○Holy Communion, Led by Pastor Tracci Parham

7:30 PM - 7:45 PM
○Event Conclusion
○Guests may mingle

We thank you for your presence and support of Healing Love Forgiveness International Ministries. May this evening be a blessing to all in attendance.

HLF Anniversary Gala

2025 Honor Awards

●The Daniel & Elena Robertson Award of Ministerial Excellence and Leadership

This prestigious honor celebrates unwavering leadership, stewardship, and transformative ministry.
Rooted in the core values of Mt. Gilead Full Gospel International Ministries and Healing Love Forgiveness International Ministries, the award recognizes individuals who embody spiritual integrity, servant leadership, and a commitment to uplifting others.
Recipients of this award are distinguished by their dedication to mentorship, legacy-building, and compassionate service, reflecting a heart for equipping future leaders and fostering healing within communities. Their ministry exemplifies bold faith, resilience, and an unshakable devotion to spreading the gospel, both locally and globally.
Through this recognition, we honor trailblazers whose work magnifies the Name of Jesus, fulfills the mandate of the Great Commission, and empowers people to reach their divine destiny, ensuring that their impact continues to shape generations to come.
Honorees must meet the following criteria:
○Exemplary Leadership: Demonstrates visionary, faith-driven leadership that empowers others and strengthens ministry. Serves as a mentor and role model, guiding future leaders with wisdom and integrity.
○Commitment to the Great Commission: Actively engages in spreading the gospel, both locally and globally. Displays a passion for evangelism, discipleship, and bringing people to Christ.
○Spiritual Integrity & Character: Lives a life of unwavering faith, displaying consistency in spiritual growth and moral excellence. Exhibits humility, compassion, and servant-hearted leadership.
○Impact on Community & Ministry Growth: Fosters healing, restoration, and empowerment within the body of Christ. Contributes to sustainable ministry efforts, helping build strong foundations for long-term impact.
○Dedication to Teaching & Mentorship: Equips individuals and ministries with sound biblical principles and leadership training. Demonstrates a heart for mentorship, pouring into others with knowledge, wisdom, and encouragement.

●The Gregory A. Parham Financial Stewardship Award

Financial wisdom is more than just managing resources—it’s about building stability, opportunity, and a legacy that empowers individuals, families, and communities- and this award highlights exactly those principles.
Named in honor of Gregory A. Parham, whose life exemplifies wise financial stewardship and empowerment, this esteemed award recognizes those who embrace financial literacy, practice responsible resource management, and inspire others to do the same.
Recipients of this award are not just financially knowledgeable; they are agents of change, using their expertise to foster economic empowerment, ethical financial leadership, and generational wealth-building.
Their commitment to stewardship extends beyond personal success, shaping a culture of financial responsibility, sustainability, and upliftment within their communities.
Through this honor, we celebrate individuals who apply financial wisdom to create pathways for opportunity, ensure lasting stability, and cultivate a vision for financial resilience—ensuring that their impact is felt across generations. Honorees must meet the following criteria:
○Mastery of Financial Literacy: Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of financial principles, including budgeting, saving, investing, debt management, and wealth-building. Stays informed on evolving financial strategies and best practices to ensure long-term success.
○Practical Application & Fiscal Responsibility: Successfully implements financial strategies that enhance personal, organizational, or community financial stability. Models wise resource management, demonstrating financial integrity and accountability in all areas.
○Ethical Stewardship & Legacy-Building: Upholds high moral and ethical standards in financial decision-making. Utilizes financial resources to invest in others, fostering generational financial health through mentorship, education, and tangible support.
○Community Impact & Financial Education: Leads initiatives that promote financial literacy and empowerment, equipping others with knowledge that leads to sustainable success. Serves as a role model in economic stewardship, inspiring others to develop sound financial habits and responsible money management.
○Long-Term Sustainability & Generational Wealth Development: Implement financial strategies that extend beyond personal gain, creating lasting opportunities for future generations. Champions entrepreneurship, investment, and financial responsibility as tools for community upliftment and long-term impact.

●The Julius and Karen White Prophetic Legacy Award.

This award is a prestigious recognition celebrating individuals who exemplify prophetic leadership and transformative influence. Named in honor of Julius and Karen White—visionaries whose wisdom, discernment, and dedication have shaped lives—this award honors leaders who embody spiritual insight, boldness, and unwavering commitment to truth.
Recipients of this distinguished award demonstrate courageous vision, integrity, and resilience, standing as beacons of justice and compassion. They possess spiritual discernment, offering profound wisdom that guides communities toward purpose and growth. Their leadership is marked by boldness in truth-telling, challenging norms, and inspiring positive change. Through their humility and ethical excellence, they uplift others, leaving a lasting impact on hearts and minds.
This award celebrates those who mentor, empower, and influence with clarity and conviction, encouraging future generations to walk in faith and purpose. The legacy of Julius and Karen White continues to shine through those honored leaders who transform lives and inspire movements with their prophetic calling.
Honorees must meet the following criteria:
○Prophetic Discernment & Spiritual Insight: Demonstrates a deep understanding of spiritual truths, offering wisdom that guides communities.
○Boldness in Truth & Transformative Influence: Fearlessly speaks truth, standing firm in faith while inspiring change in individuals and organizations. Challenges norms and leads with courage, justice, and unwavering integrity.
○Legacy of Leadership & Mentorship: Trains and equips future leaders, nurturing prophetic voices and empowering others to embrace their calling. Upholds spiritual principles that foster growth, accountability, and transformation.
○Ethical Excellence & Humility: Leads with moral integrity, demonstrating humility and grace in their prophetic ministry. Exhibits compassionate leadership, ensuring their influence uplifts, heals, and encourages others.
○Kingdom Advancement & Global Impact: Actively works to advance the gospel, using prophetic leadership to guide movements and inspire faith. Creates lasting spiritual influence, ensuring their work has a generational impact beyond their personal ministry.

●The LME Enduring Heart Award

Named in honor of Lillian Braxton, Mary Parham, and Elizabeth Jones, this distinguished honor is dedicated to parents who have navigated the profound challenge experiencing the transition of a child from life on earth to their eternal home or caring for a child with disabilities: recognizing their unwavering strength, compassion, and resilience.
It celebrates the quiet yet extraordinary acts of love, advocacy, and perseverance that define their journey—whether through caregiving, community leadership, or simply the steadfast presence they provide in the face of adversity.
Recipients of The LME Enduring Heart Award exemplify the boundless depths of parental devotion, turning grief into action, hardship into hope, and love into an enduring legacy. Through this recognition, we pay tribute to their courage, amplify their stories, and affirm that their sacrifices and dedication have left an indelible mark on the lives of their children, families, and communities. Honorees must meet the following criteria:
○Unwavering Strength & Resilience: Demonstrates remarkable courage in navigating grief, loss, or the lifelong commitment of caring for a child with disabilities. Faces adversity with faith, perseverance, and steadfast love, inspiring others through their journey.
○Compassionate Advocacy & Empowerment: Serves as a source of guidance, mentorship, and encouragement, uplifting others through shared experiences.
○Enduring Love & Parental Devotion: Embodies selfless love and care, ensuring their child’s emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Displays unbreakable commitment, turning hardship into hope and fostering meaningful bonds despite challenges.
○Community Impact & Legacy-Building: Leads initiatives or engages in efforts that educate, comfort, and strengthen families navigating loss or disability caregiving. Inspires others to embrace resilience, advocacy, and healing, leaving a lasting mark on their communities.
○Faithful Perseverance & Spiritual Strength: Maintains spiritual fortitude, relying on faith to sustain and uplift themselves and others. Serves as a beacon of grace, endurance, and unwavering trust in God, offering hope beyond their personal journey.

●The Lawson-Dyer Mentorship Legacy Award

This prestigious honor celebrates individuals who embody the transformative power of mentorship, leaving an enduring impact on those they guide and inspire. Named in tribute to the legacy of Coach William Lawson, II and Coach Benjamin C. Dyer, this award recognizes those who have dedicated themselves to fostering growth, wisdom, and success in others through unwavering support and leadership.
Recipients of The Lawson-Dyer Mentorship Legacy Award demonstrate exceptional commitment to shaping the lives of those they mentor, equipping them with the knowledge, confidence, and resilience needed to achieve their goals.
Honorees musy exemplify the following criteria:
○Dedication to Mentorship: A consistent investment in guiding, teaching, and supporting others in their personal and professional development.
○Empowerment & Encouragement: The ability to uplift, inspire, and instill confidence in mentees, helping them navigate challenges and opportunities.
○Lifelong Impact: A lasting legacy of mentorship that influences individuals, communities, and industries for generations.
○Integrity & Leadership: Leading by example, fostering trust, and demonstrating ethical and principled mentorship practices.
○Community Engagement: Actively contributing to mentorship initiatives, ensuring that knowledge and support reach a broad and diverse audience.

Through this recognition, we honor those whose mentorship has shaped lives, strengthened communities, and created a ripple effect of growth, encouragement, and success in the lives of others.

●The H.L.F. Servant’s Heart Award

The Servant’s Heart Award is a distinguished honor celebrating individuals whose unwavering faith, selfless service, and compassionate leadership embody the core values of Healing Love Forgiveness International Ministries. This award pays tribute to Barbara A. Brown, Edna Shell, Dorothy M. Jones, and Hattie M. Shaw—four extraordinary women whose lives of love, sacrifice, and devotion have left an indelible mark on countless individuals and communities.
Recipients of this award exemplify healing through service, love in leadership, and restoration in action, carrying forth the mission of Christ by uplifting others and fostering transformation through humble yet powerful acts of grace. Their commitment extends beyond duty—it is a calling to serve with integrity, restore with kindness, and lead with unwavering faith.
Through this recognition, we honor those who embody servant-hearted leadership, demonstrating faithful stewardship, unity, and a deep devotion to empowering others, ensuring that their legacy of love continues to inspire generations to walk in purpose and compassion.
Honorees must meet the following criteria:
○Lifelong Commitment to Service: Demonstrates a heart for serving others, prioritizing the needs of individuals and communities with humility and grace. Engages in consistent acts of kindness and outreach, showing unwavering dedication to uplifting others. ○Compassionate Leadership & Advocacy: Empowers and supports individuals through mentorship, advocacy, or direct care, embodying the spirit of servant leadership. Champions unity and restoration, creating environments that foster healing, love, and empowerment.
○Faithful Stewardship & Integrity: Lives with moral excellence, faithfulness, and sincerity, ensuring every act of service aligns with biblical principles.
○Impactful Ministry & Community Engagement: Demonstrates a lasting influence in ministry, shaping communities through service, spiritual guidance, and mentorship. Leads efforts that strengthen families, uplift the vulnerable, and create lasting change through faith-driven service.
○Generational Legacy & Empowerment: Inspires future leaders to embrace servant-hearted leadership, equipping others to walk in faith and service. Leaves an enduring impact on individuals, ministries, and communities, ensuring a legacy of love, humility, and transformation.

Invitation to Support and Sponsorship

Can you help move the mission? YES!

HLF Ministires extends warmest invitations to join us as a valued sponsor for our 12th Pastoral and Ministry Anniversary Gala. Your esteemed partnership and generosity will play a pivotal role in furthering our mission of transforming lives and advancing the kingdom of God.

As we commemorate this significant milestone, we welcome philanthropic contributions from individuals and organizations that align with the vision of Healing, Love, Forgiveness International Ministries. Your support will enable us to strengthen our ongoing initiatives, which include:

●Equipping Future Ministry Leaders Through the HLF Academy of Ministry Leadership, where we provide comprehensive educational programs designed to empower and prepare future ministry leaders.
Rooted in biblical principles, our academy fosters spiritual growth, leadership development, and practical ministry training, ensuring that leaders are equipped to serve effectively in their communities and beyond.
●Holistic Christian Counseling Services. HLF Christian Counseling Services offers mental, emotional, and spiritual health support to individuals and families. Our counseling approach integrates biblical wisdom with neuroscience and cognitive behavioral techniques, helping people overcome challenges such as low self-esteem, unforgiveness, regret, and emotional distress.
We provide one-on-one care, small group discussions, and aftercare services, ensuring lasting transformation and healing.
●Compassionate Outreach & Global Missions. Our Apostolic Full Ignition local and global mission’s ministry extends the love of Christ through evangelism, humanitarian aid, and educational resources. We actively serve neighborhoods and villages, providing food, counseling, and spiritual guidance to those in need.
Through conferences, retreats, and outreach programs, we embody and demonstrate God’s healing, love, and forgiveness, bringing hope to communities worldwide.

✨️SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES✨️

Platinum Sponsor – $5,000

-Recognition as a Platinum Sponsor during the event
-Featured logo placement in event materials and programs
-Reserved seating for eight guests
-Special acknowledgment on social media platforms

Gold Sponsor – $2,500

-Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during the event
-Featured logo placement in event materials and programs
-Reserved seating for six guests
-Special acknowledgment on social media platforms

Silver Sponsor – $1,000

-Recognition as a Silver Sponsor during the event
-Logo placement in event materials and programs
-Reserved seating for four guests

Bronze Sponsor – $500

-Recognition as a Bronze Sponsor during the event
-Logo placement in event materials and programs
-Reserved seating for two guests

To become a sponsor or make a donation, please use the link below to our website, and click 'Donate'.

Together, we are creating a legacy of meaningful change that touches lives and inspires hope for generations to come. Thank you for joining us in creating miracles that transform lives and bring hope to those in need. Your partnership is truly a blessing.

By His Grace,

Pastors Greg and Tracci Parham

Gala Reference Guide

All your gala questions answered!

How do I buy my ticket?

Follow the link below to be taken to the event page where you can buy your ticket and see all the options for your gala experience!

How do I register/choose my meal?

The link below will take you straight to the registration form where you will add your information and make your selection.

How do I get to the venue?

The gala will be located at 2501 Mt. Gilead Blvd, Richmond Va 23235. The building is located off Hull St. and Hicks Rd., just beyond the turn for Kroger.

Feel free to use the link below to direct you to Google Maps for ease of direction.

What should I wear?

While the dress code for the evening is black tie optional, feel free to come dressed to the nines! We feel that black tie optional gives guests a couple of formal options to choose from.

Men are requested to wear a tuxedo, but can opt for a dark suit.
Women can choose either a formal evening gown, a shorter cocktail dress, or dressy separates.

We look forward to praising the Most High with you in your finest raiment!

What's on the menu for the evening?

Our dinner selections will be a gorgeous herb roasted chicken or grilled red snapper. Sponsors will also have the option of a perfectly prepared prime rib; all served with fingerling potatoes and collard greens.

Our drink pairings will be chilled water and a tropical strawberry limeade.

For dessert we will serve a classic butter cake with butter frosting.

About HLF and it's Pastorship

Twelve years, what a journey...

Healing, Love, Forgiveness International Ministries was founded on the principles of embodying and demonstrating God's healing, love, and forgiveness.

Through Christian counseling, ministry leadership education, and global outreach, Pastors Greg and Tracci Parham have touched countless lives, bringing God's promise of restoration and hope to individuals, families, and communities.

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