Boogie-Down Bronx Pastor Helps Fight ISIS

A New York City pastor is taking the fight against ISIS personally and has spent $4,000 of his own money to supply weapons to a Christian militia fighting the terrorist group in Iraq.

William Delvin is a pastor with Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx, NY and he often travels the world to help Christians.

This time around he has supplied the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) with a variety of weapons to help the group in defeating the Islamic State. 

"I am a nobody pastor from the boogie-down Bronx," Devlin told the Christian Post. "I don't have a huge organization. I don't take government money. I don't take foundation money. I don't take corporate money. It's all private money that I raise here in the States. I have got about 200 people that support my work financially."

He continued"when I go into the refugee camps with $10,000 and I am giving money so people can buy food, clothing and hygiene items, I can help them start a new life....That is worth its weight in gold."

Delvin explained that when he visited the NPU in April he asked the group's general how could in help the militia. 

 "He said, 'Pastor Devlin, you and a hundred other people have asked me that same question — U.S. Army generals, people from The Wall Street Journal, New York Times," Devlin recalled Gen. Behnam Aboosh telling him. '"They have all asked — 100 people sitting in that same chair.'"

"He said, 'Look, I am dealing with a major military force that has United States weapons that they got from the Iraqi Army. ISIS has all these heavy weapons, all these armored vehicles, and I am sitting here in the Nineveh Protection Unit with the equivalent of bows and arrows,'" Devlin continued.

The NPU is made up of Assyrian Christians who are looking to reclaim their homeland from ISIS and although they have received training from the United States military personnel Delvin said the group hasn't received any weapons from the U.S. government. 

After his conversation with Aboosh Delvin said he knew he wanted to purchase weapons for the group.

"Grateful that, with personal money, I can purchase items that can assist and protect the Christians and their cities in the Nineveh Plain of Iraq from ISIS," Delvin later wrote on Facebook. 

Delvin is expected to meet with State Department officials within the next month.

"They know the type of stuff I do," he said. "As far as I know, other than the big organizations, I don't know of any other American Christian pastor that is going in the refugee camps to help the Yazidi people and help the Christian people there. I don't know of anybody else that is going in. There may be others, but not to my knowledge."