Pastor Jamal Bryant and Karri Turner’s Engagement Announcement [Video]

Pastor Jamal Bryant, who assumed leadership of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, over five years ago as a single, divorced father, revealed on Sunday a significant personal development: his engagement to Christian motivational speaker Karri Turner.

“I can’t tell you how happy I am, how happy my family is, how happy my children are, and I hope my church is happy for me,” Bryant shared his congregation in a live-streamed recording on Facebook.

“I wanted you to know from me … why it is that I wanted to marry this woman. It’s not just because she’s beautiful, but because she’s brilliant, because she’s anointed, and she makes me a better man, and I’m grateful,” Bryant beamed as he waxed poetic about his new fiancée as the congregation cheered with excitement.

“I wanted to marry her because I wanted her to be the moon, because I don’t want there to be a night that I don’t see her. I wanted …