Pastor Willie Joshua Montague was born and raised in Morehead City, NC on December 12, 1987 at Carteret General Hospital. His mother is Katrina Annette Montague and his father is Ronald Earl Montford Sr. He was dedicated to the Lord at Faith Tabernacle of Praise International Ministries by Bishop Donald M. Crooms, Sr., it was prophesied when he was about two years old that he would become a preacher. When Pastor Montague was about 5 years old, he was sent to his great-grandmother Maggie Becton Bell of Morehead City, NC. He remained there as she raised him and taught him the fundamentals of life.
Pastor Montague attended St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church for seventeen years. He received Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior on June of 1997. He faithfully served such capacities as Choir Director, Usher, Deacon, and Armor Bearer. After realizing there was a higher call on his life he followed God’s direction, resigned from St. Luke, and joined Praise International. He was filled with the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues on August 2001. He attended Praise International for 3yrs.
He graduated from West Carteret High School in 2006 as being Freshmen Class President, Sophomore Class President, Junior Commissioner of Men Athletics, Senior Advisor, King of the African American History Club, Chairman of the Teenage Republicans, on the Bicycle Plan committee, ran for County Commissioner, and was on the DECA TEAM. He won the H.O.B.Y. Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Award for his high school. And it is apparent that Pastor Montague manifested an enthusiasm for displaying the Word of God in his school, home, and throughout his community, even as a youth.
Help Our People Excel (H.O.P.E.), Fathers Best Interest (F.B.I.), Agape Fellowship, United Temple of Praise, Renaissance Wagoner, Innumerable Praying Ministry, and New Wave Christian Fellowship—all have been birthed out of Renaissance Outreach Ministries International and are active functioning churches or ministries.
After holding a three-week tent crusade in June of 2007, he was inspired to attend Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Subsequent attending Rhema in 2007, he discovered a church named Powerhouse Temple of Faith and Deliverance—where God directed him to be. After holding a Prophetic Conference there in 2008, he was ordained a Pastor on April 20, 2008, under the great women of God Apostle Mandy M. Hamilton. He currently resides in Broken Arrow, OK; he is Pastor/Overseer of Renaissance Outreach Ministries International.