Bishop Harold J. Benjamin, builder of faith & churches

He graduated from Zion Bible College, in Massachusetts, in 1960. He was named head of the Evangelistic Department of the Deliverance Evangelistic Center, where he helped establish 100 churches, his family said.

In 1963, he came to Philadelphia where he married missionary Alyce F. Palmer, who joined him in his church work. In 1964, he founded and pastored the Pennsylvania Deliverance Center.

He organized the Aid to Working Mothers Program and the Kiddie Kollege Day Care Center, of which he served as executive director. In 1975, he was elected secretary-treasurer of the Black National Religious Broadcasters. He made trips to Ghana to work with churches there.

Among his awards over the years, he was honored by the Chapel of the Four Chaplains for his church and community work.

Besides his wife, he is survived by seven sisters, Doris Cruel, Shirley Hill, Reaksia Banks, Paula Jenkins, Diane Jenkins, Barbara Walker and Elaine McNeil, and a brother, Huston Jenkins Jr. He was predeceased by a daughter, Doris Lynette Benjamin, and a sister, Mary L. Jenkins.

Services: 7 tonight at True Gospel Church of God in Christ, 1606 Mifflin St. Friends may call at 5 p.m. A second service will be held at noon tomorrow at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ, Stenton and Ogontz avenues. Friends may call at 9 a.m. Burial in Chelten Hills Cemetery, Washington Lane and Woolston Avenue.