After an absence of 38 years, Bermudian pastor Harold J. Lambe is returning to the Island to minister at Evening Light Pentecostal Church in Pembroke.

Rev Lambe and his wife Rev Marilyn G. Lambe, are former co-pastors of Third Street Church of God in Kansas City, Kansas.

Rev. Lambe will be installed as senior pastor at Evening Light Pentecostal Church at 4 p.m. tomorrow, with Bishop Vernon G. Lambe bringing the sermon and Bishop Goodwin Smith of Heritage Worship Centre to install him.

Rev. Lambe, who was raised in Pembroke, married his wife in 1963 and they honeymooned on the Island.

After evangelistic work in is the United States and pastorates at churches in Peacedale (First Church of God) and Westerly (Pleasant Street Baptist Church) in Rhode Island, the Lambes moved to Kansas City in 1993.

Rev. Lambe founded the Urban Reconciliation Network of Kansas City (TURN:KC) for inner-city residents.

The Lambes served on the Juniper Gardens Housing Task Force, which helped the city and housing authorities complete a $30 million revitalisation of the state's largest housing community.

They also served on the Bridge the Gap Coalition of Greater Kansas City, to unite people of different race, gender and geographical location.

Rev Lambe was a chairman of the Ministerial Assembly of Northeast New England Church of God General Assembly, and chairman of the programme committee of the National Association of the Church of God in west Middlesex, Pennsylvania.

Reverend Marilyn Lambe was ordained in 1989 by the Church of God in Anderson, Indiana and is a former president of the National Association Women of the Church of God, with responsibility for 600 churches and women across the US, including the Atlantic, Caribbean and Kenya.

At the 11 a.m. service tomorrow, pastor Robert C Rogers of Morristown, New Jersey will be guest speaker.