"Power of the Holy Ghost" (1968) Barbara Ward Farmer & The Churches of the Living God

This is track 4 from the 1968 album, "Soul March" recorded LIVE on May 18, 1968 in Harrisburg, PA at the 8th National Foreign Mission Convention.
Lead by Barbara Ward Farmer and Gloria Jean Pope
Written by Rosie Wallace
Barbara Ward Farmer was born to Edward Ward Sr. and Lillian Ward on September 5,1950 at the Temple University Hospital. She began singing at the age of 4 and began singing publicly at the age of 4 1/2. Jimmy Washington discovered her, and Bernard Chandler was her first organist. In 1962 at the age of 11, she was known as Little Barbara Ann Ward. She recorded two songs entitled, "What Do You Think About Jesus? ", and "By the Grace of God," Jimmy Smith played the organ. After she recorded, she sang at the Apollo Theater in New York with Madame Gertrude Ward. She had numerous appearances in other music programs. At the age of 6, she sang at the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia. Her parents were offered $ 500.00 a week to let her sing in a night club, but they turned it down.

She went on to record the “Barbara Ward Farmer and the Wagner Alumni Choir” LP in 1981, the “Refuge For My Soul” LP in 1984, the “Keep On Looking Up” LP in 1987 and the “I Say You Say” CD in 1992.

She was the Pastor of the Faith Tabernacle Church of Camden, New Jersey since 1995, succeeding her mother, Lillian Ward. She received a Doctor of Divinity Degree in 2014. She was a member of the Board of Bishops of the Churches of the Living God whose headquarters is in Orlando, Florida. She was very active in Camden’s civic matters and community and sat on the mayor’s council of clergy, Black Concerned Clergy, and the improvement of the lives and future of the citizens in the state of New Jersey. She was also the wife of Lawrence Farmer, Sr. (54 years) and mother of four children; Larita, Benita, Sherita and Lawrence III.

She passed away on April, 5, 2025. She was 74 years old.