Facts : 1 Ministry work On one of his first missions as preacher at a church in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Gay Sr
Facts : 2 When his son was around four or five, his father brought him to church congregations and revivals to sing for audiences
Facts : 3 According to Marvin Gaye s relatives, Gaye s father coached him in piano lessons, which Gaye learned by ear, and it was one of the few stable times in the father and son s relationship
Facts : 4 had left the House of God to join another sect called the House of the Living God, but soon returned to the House of God to head its Board of Apostles in the early 1950s
Facts : 5 left the House of God altogether in the mid-1950s after not being named Chief Apostle of the church and according to his son, that s when my father lost his healing powers
