11/12/2004

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER ONLINE (11/12/04

1. EDITOR’S COMMENT:

The Editor is presently in Orlando, Florida to attend and make a presentation to the 10th International Sloan Conference. Thirty-eight more days and, God Willing, I will be fully transitioned to Nashville.

I would also like to encourage the same level of participation in this venue, The Christian Recorder Online, as we had in the AME News and Information Email Sharing Group. This site is open for your comments and sharing. Some comments might be considered for the printed edition. You may let me know if you want your comments considered for the printed edition, or you may leave it to my discretion. This site is yours. Please feel free to participate. Simply email me: chsydnor@erols.com

2. FUNERAL ANNOUNCMENT OF THE PASSING OF RETIRED GENERAL OFFICER, THE REVEREND DR. ALONZO WILLIAM HOLMAN:

Regretfully we share news of the passing of Retired General Officer, Dr. Alonzo William Holman, (Director, Department of Salary Supplement AME Church). Dr. Holman passed Wednesday, November 10, 2004.

Wake Services:

“Mother” Emanuel AMEC, 110 Calhoun St., Charleston, SC 29401

Sunday, November 14, 2004

Viewing: 6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.

Services: 7:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.

Funeral Services:

“Mother” Emanuel AMEC, 110 Calhoun St., Charleston, SC 29401

Monday, November 15, 2004

Viewing: 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Services: 10:00 A.M.

Condolences may be sent to:

Mrs. Gerald Smith Holman

1850 Stonehedge Road

Charleston, SC 29407

(843) 571-6332 – Phone

(843) 571-7548 – Fax

Services entrusted to:

Fielding Home for Funerals

122 Logan Street

Charleston, SC 29401

(843) 722-3348 – Phone

(843) 722-8795 - Fax

In lieu of flowers, send donations to:

1. “Mother” Emanuel AMEC Elevator Fund

Phone: 110 Calhoun St., Charleston, SC 29401

(843) 722-2561 -

2. National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina

Thurmond Mall, 500 Taylor St., Columbia, SC 29201

(Phone: 803) 799-3870 -


Please remember the Holman family in your prayers.

Submitted by: Angela Hawthorne Smith

God Bless!
Ora L. Easley, President
Email: Amespouses1@aol.com
CONN-M-SWAWO +PK'S
Leadership Planning Retreat
December 3-5, 2004
Embassy Suites Hotel
Hot Springs, Arkansas

WEB SITES
http://www.amemswwpk.org/
http://www.connmswawo3.org

Thirteenth Episcopal District

African Methodist Episcopal Church

3. BREAKING NEWS! APPENDED BELOW ARE THE PRESIDING ELDER, PASTORAL, AND SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS OF THE FITH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. (This is the speed that I like to get news! The pastors on the list have friends all over the Connection and this is news that we should be sharing in real time and not waiting weeks to get it in the printed edition of TCR)

The Newly Appointed Presiding Elders

Presiding Elder Norman D. Copeland - the Los Angeles District

Presiding Elder Steven Cousin - the Kansas City, KS District

Presiding Elder Shermella Egson - the Pacific Northwest

Presiding Elder Theodore "Ted" Evans - the Omaha Wichita District

Presiding Elder H. C. "Chuck" Farris - the Phoenix/Albuquerque District

Presiding Elder W. Bartalette Finney - the St. Louis/Cape Girardeau District

Presiding Elder LeGrant Moore - the Los Angeles/Pasadena District

Presiding Elder Donna Roberson -the Kansas City South District

Pastoral Appointments

Rev. Tracy Brown - St. Stephens, Los Angeles

Rev. David Coston - St. Mark, Los Angeles

Rev. Carolyn Habersham - Emmanuel, Los Angeles

Rev. L. Fisher Hines - Walker Temple, Los Angeles

Rev. John Hunter - First AME, Los Angeles

Rev. Sylvester Laudermill - Ward, Los Angeles

Rev. Lewis Logan - Bethel, Los Angeles

Rev. Donnell Miles - Price Chapel, Los Angeles

Rev. Najuma Smith - St. James, Los Angeles

Rev. John Cager - Bethel, Fontana

Rev. Timothy Coston, Sr. - Cain Memorial, Bakersfield

Rev. Donna Davis - Allen, Riverside

Rev. Rueben Ford - First AME, Santa Monica

Rev. Delman Howard - Primm Tabernacle, Pomona

Rev. Charles Langston - Murph, Valinda

Rev. Terry McCray Hill - Bethel, Sparks

Rev. Dorothy Patrick - St. Paul, Santa Barbara

Rev. Mary Jamerson Polk - Holy Trinity, Palmdale and St. John, Little Rock

Rev. Christilene Whalen Weaver - Walker, Oceanside

Rev. Hugh Wesley - St. Paul, Vallejo

Rev. Ronald Woods - A.K. Quinn, Moreno Valley

Rev. Cedric Alexander - First, Richmond

Rev. Ira Woodfin Dickason - Allen, San Francisco

Rev. Tyrone Hicks - Parks, Oakland

Rev. Benjamin Hollins - St. Andrews, Sacramento

Rev. Pamela Mason - Carter Memorial, Fresno

Rev. Craig Moore - Brookins, Oakland

Rev. Elmer Redding - Murph Emmanuel, Sacramento

Rev. Keith Richardson - Wright Chapel, San Francisco

Rev. Don Davis - Gregg, St. Louis

Rev. Anthony Steele - St. Peters, St. Louis

Rev. Cary Anderson - First AME Seattle

Rev. Warren Freeman - Allen, Tacoma

Rev. Dennis Payne - Ebenezer, Bremerton

Rev. Denise Rogers - Wayman Chapel, Billings

Rev. Eugene Wright - Bethel, Yakima

Rev. Marva Gordon - Heaven Bound, Tucson

Rev. Carieta Cain Grizzell - Allen Chapel, Cheyenne

Rev. Nurjhan Govan - Trinity, Salt Lake City

Rev. Joseph ("Joe") Nixon – Shorter, Denver

Rev. Regina Ross - Campbell, Denver

Rev. Benjamin D. Watson, Sr. - Jordan, Denver

Rev. Donald Baker - St. John, Topeka

Rev. Portia Cavitt - Allen Chapel, Omaha

Rev. Phyliss J. Griffin - Bethel, Hutchinson

Rev. Mark Smith - St. Paul, Wichita

Rev. Betty Hannah Witherspoon - Bethel, Leavenworth

Rev. Adrian Young - Bethel, Omaha

Rev. Eraina Aseme - St. John, Kansas City

Rev. May Etta Hall - Grant, Moberly

Rev. Shirley Heermance - Christ Our Redeemer, Kansas City

Rev. Stephanie Ransom - St. Paul, Fowler

Rev. Edith Fort Reed - Bethel, Macon

Rev. Carmi Woods - Ebenezer, Kansas City

Special Appointments

New Dean of Board of Examiners S. Calif. Conference - Rev. Kelvin Calloway

New President of Fifth District Women in Ministry - Rev. Noella Buchanan

New Director of Rural Ministry - Rev. Eraina Aseme

New Director of Church Planting - Rev. Mary S. Thomas

4. THIRTEENTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT CALENDAR 2004-2005:

2004

October 31 Protect our vote Sunday

www.unity04.net 1-866-our-vote (647-8683)

November 2 Election Day

November 10-11 Payne Theological Seminary Board Meeting & Investiture

November 25 Day of Thanksgiving

December 5 Allen Chapel, Murfreesboro

December 6 General Board

Investiture Banquet 2004, President of Council of Bishops

Opryland Gaylord’s Resort Hotel, Nashville

Inner Circle Reception – 6 pm

Banquet – 7 pm

December 12 St. Andrews, Memphis

December 25 Christmas Day

2005

January 1 New Year’s Day

January 11-14 Church Growth and Development, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

January 26-30 WMS Executive Board Meeting, Atlanta Hilton

February 10-12 13th District Founder’s Day – St. Andrew, Memphis, TN

March 16-19 13th District Mid-Year Conference – St. Paul, Lexington, KY

March 20 Palm Sunday

March 21-23 Bethel, Chattanooga

March 27 Payne Chapel, Nashville

April 22-23 WMS/Clergy Spouses Retreat – Location TBD

May 28 Bishop’s Birthday

June 5-10 Hampton Ministers’ Conference – Hampton, Virginia

June 27-30 General Board and Bishop’s Council – Dallas, Texas

July 24-29 Connectional Lay Biennial – Hilton Americans, Houston, TX

August 2-5 Youth and Leadership Congress – Galt House, Louisville, KY

August 30 Bishop and Supervisor’s Wedding Anniversary

September 12-17 Kentucky Annual Conference – St. John, Frankfort

September 26-30 West Kentucky Annual Conference – Young’s Chapel, Louisville

October 6 Supervisor Stan’s Birthday

October 10-15 East Tennessee Annual Conference – St. Paul, Alcoa

October 24-29 West Tennessee Annual Conference – New Tyler, Memphis

October 31 – November 5 Tennessee Annual Conference – Allen Chapel, Murfreesboro

November 17-19 Planning Meeting – Quinn Chapel, Louisville, KY

November 24 Day of Thanksgiving

December 25 Christmas Day

Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Presiding Bishop

Supervisor Stan McKenzie, Supervisor of Missions

5. INVESTITURE BANQUET OF BISHOP VASHTI MURPHY MCKENZIE, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF BISHOPS:

The Investiture Banquet for Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie will be held on Monday, December 6, 2004 at 7 p.m. at the at Gaylord’s Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee

6. NEWS FROM THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (http://www.ame-church.com/) ABOUT THE GENERAL BOARD AND COUNCIL OF BISHOPS:

December 6-8, 2004
General Board Meeting Agenda
(This will download an
Acrobat PDF version of the Agenda)


11/09/2004

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER ONLINE (11/10/04)

1. EDITOR’S NOTE:

The AME Publishing House has experienced some mechanical problems with the printing press and as a result the mail out of The Christian Recorder has been delayed. I ask all of you to please be patient. Dr. Barbour tells us that the problem has been fixed.

As I mentioned earlier, we have to prepare the Christian Recorder weeks out. We are now looking for a few Christmas articles and articles on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month. In other words we are looking to 2005. We still need timely reports. We have had a number of Episcopal District Planning Meetings, but not as many articles that I had hoped to receive. I need your assistance if we are expected to get the news out. Send the news to me and I will get the news out.

Our move is almost complete. We have moved. I should be in Nashville fulltime in a month. Reverend Charlotte is already relocated and pastoring Shorter Chapel AME Church, Franklin, Tennessee.

Send me news: chsydnor@erols.com

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6. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH:
www.ame-church.com

7. AME SPOUSES WEBSITES:

http://www.amemswwpk.org
http://www.connmswawo3.org

8. THE AME/WIM WEBSITE: www.amewim.org

9 WEBSITE FOR THE AMEC CONNECTIONAL LAY ORGANIZATION:

http://www.amec-connectionallay.org/home.htm

10. MORE AME NEWS: http://www.ameherald.com/

11. BARBARA JORDAN HEALTH POLICY CONGRESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR, RECEIVED FROM:

KaiserFamilyFoundation@cme.kff.org

PROGRAM: The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program brings
talented African American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander and American
Indian/Alaska Native college seniors and recent graduates to
Washington, D.C., where they work in congressional offices and learn
about health policy. The application deadline is January 7, 2005.

PURPOSE: The Kaiser Family Foundation established the Scholars Program
to honor the legacy of late U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who was
a Foundation Trustee, and to expand the pool of students of color
interested in the field of health policy.

STRUCTURE: Through the nine-week program (May 24 - July 29, 2005),
Scholars gain knowledge about federal legislative procedure and health
policy issues, while further developing their critical thinking and
leadership skills. In addition to an internship in a congressional
office, Scholars participate in seminars and site visits to augment
their knowledge of health care issues, and write and present a health
policy research paper. The program is based at Howard University.

ELIGIBILITY: Eligible candidates must be U.S. citizens who are members
of a racial/ethnic minority group and will be seniors or recent
graduates of an accredited U.S. college or university in the fall of
2004. Candidates are selected based on academic performance,
demonstrated leadership potential and interest in health policy.

COMPENSATION: Scholars receive approximately $5,000 in support, which
includes a stipend, daily expense allowance, airfare and lodging.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Application forms and additional information
about the Program are available online at:


http://www.kff.org/docs/topics/jordanscholars.html

All application materials are due by January 7, 2005. For further information, contact:
program manager Jomo Kassaye at 202.238.2385 or
bjscholars@howard.edu .

-Message-Id:
20041103094712.CA4B.12397-4757@cme.kff.org

12. PRAYER REQUEST:

Greetings in Jesus Name! Your prayers are requested for:

Rev. Geneva Crawford

Methodist Hospital, West Pavillion

Houston, TX

Room 915

Telephone: 713. 363-7915

Thank You!

Rev. Maggie Crawford, M. Div.

13. ANNOUNCEMENT BY SISTER TINA DEVEAUX: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE REVEREND JAMAL AND FIRST LADY GIZELLE BRYANT ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR DAUGHTER:

It’s a girl! Baby Bryant has arrived. Grace Gizelle Bryant, 8lbs. 5oz. Baby Bryant, First Lady Gizelle and Pastor Jamal Bryant are all doing well.

Expressions and congratulatory messages may be sent to:

Empowerment Temple

1505 Eutaw Place

Baltimore, MD 21217

Please keep the Bryant family in your prayers.

Tina DeVeaux

EDITOR'S NOTE: Congratulations to the grandparents on both sides of the family because it couldn't have happened without them!

14. INVESTITURE BANQUET OF BISHOP VASHTI MURPHY MCKENZIE, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF BISHOPS:

The Investiture Banquet for Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie will be held on Monday, December 6, 2004 at 7 p.m. at the at Gaylord’s Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee

15. NEWS FROM THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (www.ame-church.com) ABOUT THE GENERAL BOARD AND COUNCIL OF BISHOPS:

December 6-8, 2004
General Board Meeting Agenda
(This will download an
Acrobat PDF version of the Agenda)

16. KENTCKY ANNUAL CONFERENCE YPD NEWSLETTER:

KY CONFERENCE YPD NEWSLETTER‎ (2KB) ‎

17. A LITTLE HUMOR TO LIGHTEN UP YOUR DAY:

While walking down the street one day, a US senator was tragically hit by a truck and died. He arrived in heaven and was met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to heaven," said St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."

" No problem, just let me in," said the senator.

“Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."

"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," said the senator.

"I'm sorry but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorted him to the elevator.

Down, down, down to hell. The doors opened and the senator found himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance was a club and standing in front of it were all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone was very happy and in evening dress.

They ran to greet him, to shake his hand, and to reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at expense of the people. They played a friendly game of golf and then dined on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present was the devil, who really was a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They were having such a good time that, before the senator realized it, it is time to go.

Everyone gave him a hearty farewell and waved while the elevator rose ... up, up, up ... and the door reopened on heaven where St. Peter was waiting for him.

"Now it's time to visit heaven."

During these twenty-four hours, the senator joined a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They had a good time and, before he realized it, the senator's 24 hours in heaven had gone by and St. Peter returned.

"Well, now, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."

The senator reflected for a minute, then answered: "Well, I would never have said it before ... I mean heaven has been delightful and all, but I think I would be better off in hell."

So St. Peter escorted the senator to the elevator to return down, down, down to hell. The doors of the elevator opened and the senator was in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He saw all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags. The devil came over to the senator and put an arm around his
shoulder.


"I don't understand," stammered the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and club, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now all I see is a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looked at him, smiled and said, "Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted."