Prayer Tower Fellowship ChurchPrayer Tower Fellowship Church

Our Legacy

A house of prayer, carried forward.

Below is a little about our history, we give credit to our late pastor collins and founder mother boyd. To the entire fellowship prayer band, the boyd family, collins family, hamilton family and wooden family we thank you. Many hands have worked to preserve us as a beacon, a church and a family.

Mother Estella Boyd, founder of Prayer Tower Fellowship Church in Gary, Indiana

Mother Estella Boyd

Mother Estella Boyd was born was born July 23, 1894, and died April 5, 2003. At the age of 30 she gave her life to the Lord and began praying, teaching, and eventually founding the Fellowship Prayer Band. Great leaders, ministers, artists have been birth through Mother. Through the Prayer and Travail of the Prayer Tower Fellowship Church was born. Yet a shepherd was needed in 1982. The (late) Pastor Kenneth R Collins, accepted the call to fulfill such an honorable office to lead God's people. The blossoming of PTFC was established.

Elder Kenneth R. Collins, former pastor of Prayer Tower Fellowship Church in Gary, Indiana

A memorial

The late Elder Kenneth R. Collins

April 10, 1943 – July 24, 2003

He was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mother Mary Morman.

He served under Bishop C. L. Morton at Greater Mount Zion Church of God in Christ.

He became National Fellowship President under the leadership of the late Dr. Estella Boyd.

He served as pastor of Prayer Tower Fellowship Church.

With his wife Mother Rachel Collins he pursued worldwide evangelism and house-to-house prayer services.

Shortly before his passing he signed for the groundwork of the church's new edifice.

He is remembered as “a light and an example of holiness.”

The church continues the legacy of the late Elder Kenneth R. Collins and the vision of the late Mother Estella Boyd.