The Way of Yeshua
Ancient Faith is the conceptual framework for examining and challenging the later religious construct called Christianity, particularly its white Euro-centric Protestant expression, against the faith and practice of the earliest Jerusalem community and its broader Afro-Asiatic context.
The False Value of Theology
Christianity is not the original faith from which everything else developed. Rather, it is historically dependent upon and shaped through its relationship with Western theology—a theological construct that became increasingly separated from the older Afro-Asiatic religious world. God is infinite, transcendent, and ontologically other than the finite human mind, then every human system, characterization, category, and theological formulation concerning God is necessarily finite and incapable of containing or producing a complete image of the Almighty.
The Change and Control of the Narrative
Western theology functioned as a process that took an indigenous Afro-Asiatic religious narrative and:
extracted it from its original cultural and historical contexts, interpreting it through foreign philosophical and theological systems;
recast it within a European historical awareness;
visually and racially Europeanized it;
conveyed it through colonial and missionary channels;
and presented as universal, normative, and, “biblical.”
The Problem of the Protestant Reformations
The crucial issue is that the Reformation did not return to the first-century Jerusalem community in any uncomplicated historical sense.In rejecting what they regarded as corruptions, they also systematically rejected or diminished much of the sacerdotal and liturgical inheritance that had developed from the Jewish matrix of the earliest believers.
About us
The work community of Christ best exemplifies the Unity of the Faith. We are workers and co-laborers with differing roles and responsibilities, but collectively we are the hands of Christ, the compassion, love, joy, and hope of Christ to the community that we serve.
Daystar is an Ancient Faith Network of Churches Dedicated to Recover, Restore, and Practice the Faith once delivered unto the Saints after certain men have crept into the church unawares to pervert, pollute, and profane that way of walking after Yeshua.
A few things we’re great at
To change the paradigm of The Way of Jesus (Yeshua) was a faith that was singular (apostolic), sacramental in its priesthood, evangelical in its message, charaismatic and universal (catholic) in character. While Western theology and its resultant churches divide along the lines of placing an emphasis on these as elements, we are exceptional at recognizing tham as parts of the whole faith.
One Lord, One Faith, and One Baptism.
Intelligent Scholarship
The work of Archaia Pisti and the ecclesial restoration envisioned through Daystar cannot simply employ the same Western theological method it is attempting to interrogate. If the analytical framework is itself historically conditioned by the Philosophical/Analytical theological tradition, then merely inserting Afro-Asiatic content into that framework does not constitute recovery.
Ancient African Studies
Recovering the Ancient Church — not as nostalgia, but as a serious proposal for recovering apostolic, sacramental, episcopal, conciliar, and historically continuous Christianity.
The Ancient Faith — apostolic Christianity, patristics, councils, creeds, liturgy, sacramental theology, episcopacy.
The Afro-Asiatic Church — Egypt, Ethiopia, Nubia, North Africa, Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia, and the broader Christian East.
Preservation of Sacerdotalism
The Reformation’s rejection of the sacerdotal priesthood was not simply the removal of a medieval abuse. It represented a rupture with a historical development that had emerged from the Jewish and Afro-Asiatic religious matrix of the ancient Church.
The priesthood, sacramental life, episcopal order, Eucharistic theology, liturgical worship, sacred time, and other structures that developed within the historical Church could then be reclassified by Protestant polemic as later “corruptions,” “traditions of men,” or departures from an allegedly pure biblical religion. Yet the standard used to make that judgment was itself a product of a later Western theological reconstruction.
The Founder and Servant-Leader
Meet the Founder of the Work to reclaim and restore the faith spoken of by the Apostles in the age of Protestantism
Bishop David Jerome Davis Sr. holds the historic title of Rector as opposed to Vicar, based on his responsibility and role as the founder of the work. Bishop Davis is married to Rev. Dr. Lynda Davis, Ed. D., and they have three children: Malcolm Anthony, Chandra Donnella, and Christopher Michael Davis.
Bishop David Jerome Davis Sr. is a graduate of Metropolitan Christian University with a Bachelor’s degree in Systematic Theology and a Master’s degree in Divinity. He is also a graduate of the Midwestern School of Divinity, where he finished his studies with a Master’s in Sacred Theology. Bishop Davis holds an Honorus Causa (Honorary Doctorate) from Metropolitan Christian University.
A lifelong learner, Bishop Davis is also an alumnus of the Graduate School of Episcopal Studies, studying episcopacy’s origins, purpose, and functions. He is married to Dr. Lynda Davis, Ed.D., an ordained clergy member and powerful preacher, teacher, and conference speaker. Bishop stands on the shoulders of great men of God and prolific proclaimers of the Word. Yet, he models himself after no particular personality, preferring instead to follow the prophetic leanings of the Holy Spirit as a Teacher of the Word. An unending student of religion and philosophy, Bishop Davis is now a doctoral candidate pursuing a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree.
The Coadjutor of Daystar
Meet the Co-Founder of the Work to reclaim and restore the faith spoken of by the Apostles in the age of Protestantism
Vice President at the Baptist Ministers Conference of Newark and Vicinity
Works in Newark, New Jersey, January 24, 2024 – Present
Founder, Director, CEO at Project Redirect Ministries Inc.
March 3, 1995 – Present
Former Sheriff’s Officer, retired from Essex County Sheriff’s Office, 1996 – 2020·Newark, New Jersey
College: Doctor of Divinity at Metropolitan Christian University
Our team
Selfless Servants who are here to edify, prepare you for the work of the ministry and to help matue you into the measure of God’s purpose for your life.
Rev. Fr. Vr. Byron Washington M.Div., MBA
Vicar General
Rev. Chandra Davis, BA
Chamberlain
Rev.Dr. Lynda Davis
Education Chair
What are you waiting for?
Ready to take the next step? Let’s bring your vision to life!
Contact us
bishopdjdavis@daystarglobalcc.com
Give us a Call or Message Us
410-940-4411
The Daystar Global Archaia Pisti African Church
Who we are and what is our mission
Daystar is a teaching ministry that places an emphasis on providing professionally train staff and ministry faculty . Our emphasis is on recovery of the faith from the African origins of the early church.
We will meet the ministry needs of your business, family, health, and community
Meetings and video conferences
For planning, bringind awareness, coursework and training. In inclement weather, we offer worship services..
Education and Training in Ministry
Opportunities for certificate and degree programs. Vocational and specialty ministry training.
Economics Business and Personal Economics
From basic accounting to home management. We teach how to build generational wealth and inner city gentrification.
Telephone Access 24/7
Weekly Hours of Service
Mon-Fri. 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Saturday Street Ministry – Sunday Worship
10 am- 3 pm
Wi-fi Network Access
Ask for access to use our free WI-FI.
Community
Weekly Interactions with local community and oppertunities for youth cmmunity service hours