Elorm Ocansey Ministry Foundation

A justice-centered community service ministry.

About

The Elorm Ocansey Ministry Foundation is a justice-centered community SERVICE ministry focused on serving local community institutions, leaders, and members through community organizing, advocacy, pastoral counseling, and more.

Rev. Elorm Ocansey is the Principal Founder of the Elorm Ocansey Ministry Foundation (EOMF). Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Rev. Elorm Ocansey is a long-time resident of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, and a proud graduate of Franklin Middle School, Franklin High School, Raritan Valley Community College, and Rutgers University. As part of his community service ministry, he organizes with several community organizations and institutions in New Jersey and is primarily dedicated to faith-based neighborhood revitalization, community development, and grassroots-led community planning throughout New Jersey.

Rev. Elorm Ocansey is a graduate of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Divinity. He is a Chaplain Candidate and Lieutenant with the New Jersey Army National Guard. In his spare time, he serves as a substitute teacher for several school districts throughout New Jersey. Rev. Elorm Ocansey is ordained in the African Charismatic Pentecostal tradition and serves as Assistant Pastor at Transformation International Chapel, under the leadership of Founder and Senior Pastor Rev. David Ocansey.

On April 29th, 2022, inspired by his calling to ministry, Rev. Elorm Ocansey founded the Elorm Ocansey Ministry Foundation to work as an independent, justice-centered community development organization.

For THE NEWS

On the eve of his death, Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. stood in Memphis as a witness. The speech we remember as “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” was a warning. Dr. King spoke of wages withheld, of labor exploited, of systems that consumed Black bodies and called it order. He spoke of a people who had been given a check marked “insufficient funds,” and he dared to say what too many still refuse to say: justice requires repayment. The Promised Land Dr. King saw was not symbolic. It was material. It was economic. It was reparative.

New Jersey, for all its progressive language, is not innocent in this story. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, through the work of the New Jersey Reparations Council, has laid before us a document that reads less like a report and more like a reckoning. Page after page, it testifies: That slavery here was not distant, but deliberate. That segregation was not accidental, but engineered. That the racial wealth gap is not unfortunate, but designed.

Yet, in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, we are witnessing something both familiar and offensive: a candidate who has waved away reparations as impractical and turned up her nose at the very notion of a national apology backed by material repair.

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Community Service Projects & Initiatives

WHITESBORO HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROJECT

Rev. Elorm Ocansey is a Lead Partner of the Whitesboro Historic Preservation Project: A project aiming to preserve the legacy and future of Whitesboro, Cape May County, New Jersey.

Greater Asbury Park Historic Revival Project

Rev. Elorm Ocansey is a Lead Partner of the Greater Asbury Park Historic Revival Project: A project aiming to revive the Greater Asbury Park region of Monmouth County, New Jersey.