About Urban Ministries International | Immediate Needs

Paul D. Curtis and his wife, Thelmarie "Thel," have been married for 44 years, and are engaged in full-time preaching and teaching ministry in the USA and in foreign countries.

Paul felt the call of God to become a minister, and transferred to Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, where he graduated with a B.A. degree, class of 1959.  Paul has been an ordained Assemblies of God minister since 1963.

Thelmarie was raised in a Christian home in Houston, Texas and received Christ as Savior at a very early age.  She is a relational speaker and skilled teacher of God's word, lacing her presentation with warmth and humorous anecdotes.  Her Christ-centered ministry edifies and encourages believers, and calls people to faith in God.  Thel's practical applications of biblical truth help people find wholeness in the Lord.  She is a woman of prayer and is engaged daily in intercessory prayer.

Thelmarie was the Women's Aglow Area Board President for the state of North Carolina in the USA for several years, has led state retreats, and has spoken in Women's Aglow chapters in the USA and in Britain.

Paul and Thelmarie have ministered extensively in the USA and on five continents, including 28 preaching missions to Britain, and missions to the former USSR and communist Eastern Europe, Albania, France, West Africa, the Far East and a one month mission to India in November 1999. 

 

They have ministered the word of God among many different denominations and fellowships; on campuses, in prisons, to business, professional, educational, and military groups; on radio, television, through publications, and online computer communications. 

 

They have served pastorates in Texas, California, North Carolina and Georgia. In 1997 they resigned the pastorate of International Christian Centre (ICC) to return to full time Missionary Evangelism.  International Christian Centre is an Assemblies of God church they founded 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, a ministry to internationals - primarily Southeast Asians - and foreign language groups.

From 1984-1990 Paul was the Area Director and Thelmarie was the Administrator of The Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) 700 Club Ministry Center in Atlanta. Together, with their staff, they operated 45 ministry telephones, 18 hours a day, for prayer counseling response to CBN's 700 Club Christian television program.  Thelmarie helped train more than 600 volunteer telephone prayer counselors.  The Curtis' and their team led more than 15,000 people to Christ as Savior, and prayed with more than 700,000 callers in those six years.  They conducted a daily chapel service at the CBN Center, which was open to staff and visitors from the community.

For nearly four years, Thelmarie served as confidential Administrative Secretary to Paul who was Presbyter of the North Atlanta Section,  Georgia District of the Assemblies of God. Paul was the Overseer of 23 churches and assisted in the oversight of Georgia's 220 churches and 510 ministers.  He was a Ministerial Credentialing Committeeman, and was chair of the District Media Study Committee.

For five years Paul was the Director and Thelmarie was the Administrator of Teen Challenge in Los Angeles, California, and later in Chicago, Illinois.  Teen Challenge is an evangelistic recovery ministry to drug and substance abusing young men and women.  They've seen hundreds of drug addicts delivered from the demonic and set free from the bondage of drugs.  Many are now in full-time ministry.

The Curtis's, who are native Texans, reside in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.  They have three children, two daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, and seven grandchildren.