Questions About Dream Center 

Q: Most prized professional moment or accomplishment?
PMB: The start of the Dream Center, 1994. I mean, as hard as it was, difficult, just actually doing what you know God called you to do, even if it was a very rough start.  I think the second moment would be when we actually bought the Dream Center of this building.  The reality of what would be accomplished here in time on a twenty-four hour basis.

Q: What was your funniest moment at the Dream Center?
PMB: I think one night when I was preaching, and a lady that we picked up off the bus picked up one of those toy tennis rackets and started going through the audience, hitting everybody on the head with it. Also, when one of the pastors was preaching and fell down the stairs. He totally just wiped out on stage.

Q: What about your best moment at the Dream Center?
PMB:  For me, I think one of my best moments was the free throw shooting. I think it was the point when I got to the last of the twenty-four hours, the last second, and I’ve never been more physically and mentally destroyed in all my life. My body was gone and just the thought of being able to withstand so many injuries during that twenty-four hours and so much muscle strains and tears, and just realizing that that clock was coming down to the end. I was still actually accomplishing what I set out to do.  Three hours before the end of it, my shoulder was gone, and God just dramatically healed me through that.  It really was the best moment that I could think of.  

Q: What about your hardest moment at the Dream Center?
PMB: Getting started.  I think any vision that God gives you, the hardest part is getting started because I think that the enemy throws everything and the kitchen sink at you in the beginning to try to get you to stop because he knows that there’s kind of like a divine momentum that comes later and so I think that first year, every battle, every testing, every fear, insecurity comes out. The hardest part is definitely getting started, and trying to create some sense of momentum.  Also in an area where it was very hard to find, too.

Q: What’s your favorite aspect of the Dream Center?
PMB: The whole fact that any hour of the day somebody will be helped. Even on Christmas day, when every ministry in the country shut down, there will be some guy in the building coming off drugs living there, and will still be there.  There will always be people here being helped- every minute, every day, every holiday, every hour of the week.

Q: Favorite aspect of Angelus Temple?
PMB: The historical excitement of what the church has been, and the same way that it’s being recaptured again. The way it’s been reborn, with so many landmark buildings dying over time, it’s amazing to watch it be reborn.

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