The Reverend Dr. Johnny Barbour, Jr., Publisher
The Reverend Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III, Editor
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3. LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
The Global Corner
I am excited to see that our efforts to put Mozambique Annual Conference in the Map of AME CHURCH are having results. I was glad when I saw the letter of my sister in Christ, Sara (NOT THE BISHOP….. smile) placed in yesterday edition of C.R. this is the second time it happens
I hope this encourages the editor to continue to do the marvelous job that he is doing for the Church. I wish also to thank our committed Bishop for her ministry to our District. Bishop Sarah has been seeking ways to help to fill some gaps that we have as church. And, she is moving the District forward.
I was working in the plant in the two firsts days of this week, when I come back to the office in Wednesday, there was 13 emails asking me about the C. Recorder 6 of then are not members of AME Church are people to whom I send. So go ahead editor!
I was excited when I read the last issue of The Christian Recorder because I saw that we had been in the same room. Do remember where? It was in Zimbabwe at the GDC Meeting. I was the last one to arrive but I thank God for allowing me to arrive in time to hear Bishop Sara’s Sermon entitled, “It's time to move out.”
That was my first journey to attend a Church meeting. That trip will be in my mind forever because it allowed me to meet people from different places and allowed us an opportunity us to share, sing, worship and learn from each other. I am still having fellowship with some of them.
Since the time that I was in Zimbabwe, many things changed in my life specially my ministry. I continued the sermon of my bishop; I used the same text to preach a sermon. When I planned my return trip to Maputo, I decided to travel by automobile instead of airplane (a missionary trip). I went from Harare to Chimoio and Beira (Beira District) Xai – Xai (Xai- Xai district) and the Maputo. It was four days traveling.
Bishop Davis is a visionary. With the teaching of my bishop in the mid year Christian Education Conference and her Episcopal visits, we now have members with vision.
I did not have enough time to read The Christian Recorder because I am very busy. But, I saw something about a worship software. I would like to have more details about it because I would like to like to purchase it
I have a bad new that I am going to copy from the e mail that I sent to the bishop because of time I am busy as I told you but I am in office you can sent me anything I will read I am leaving too late today , please keep lift up us in prayer .
I am asking my bishop and my AME Church family to please pray and lift our family, especially my mother; she lost her only living parent, my uncle this week. He was living in South Africa; we are waiting for his body today or tomorrow. She does not have mother, father, uncle anyone from her mother or father’s family.
“Stand still”
Exodus 14.13- 15
Rev. Dionisio Mazuze
Eighteenth Episcopal District
Mozambique Annual Conference
Maputo
+258 82 3551600 cell
dmazuze@ccs.co.za
Praised be the name of Lord
Pastor Dionisio Mazuze
Editor’s comment: I raised some funds for the Christian Recorder subscriptions and have funds that have not been committed. I will send the LabOra CD to Bishop Sarah Davis so that Reverend Mazuze and other pastors can share that great resource.
A word to pastors, buy the LabOra CD; you will be glad that you did. Administrative Assistants, “bug” your pastor until he, or she, buys the product.
4. THEY CAME TO “KEEP THE VOTE ALIVE” RALLY AT MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE:
Jamye Coleman Williams
They came! They came by bus, by plane, by car, by train. They came to Atlanta on a hot August day to walk—to march again for a cause. They came as part of a mammoth Rainbow-PUSH Coalition Rally organized by Rev. Jesse Jackson and supported by the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO, the SCLC, the Mexican American Legal Education and Defense Fund. Members of Congress came. Ordinary citizens from across the nation came. Legendary civil rights activists, entertainers, journalists came. They descended on Atlanta 20,000 strong to march for the re-authorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. They were reminiscent of another time and another era when men and women of goodwill—black and white—marched on behalf of the segregated, the disenfranchised, the “left out.”
On the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—African Americans, Caucasians, Asians, Hispanics—old and young—came to march to “Keep the Vote Alive.” Marching arm-in-arm on the front line from the federal courthouse down Martin Luther King Drive to Herndon Stadium on the Morris Brown campus were the Rev. Jesse Jackson; veteran civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Mrs. Evelyn Lowery; Rep. John Conyers (D-MI); Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie; Rep. John Lewis (D-GA); Rep. Maxine Waters (D- CA); Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Leader; SCLC President Charles Steele; Ambassador Andrew Young; entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, and John Legend. Other participants included Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA); Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY); NAACP President Bruce Gordon and CEO Nelson Rivers; John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO; Judge Greg Mathis; Tom Joyner, and Georgia’s AME Resident Bishop William P. DeVeaux.
My daughter Donna and I, watching from the Morris Brown Press Box, courtesy of Bishop DeVeaux, were hosted by President Samuel Jolley. We were thrilled by the enthusiastic crowd, which roared as Rev. Jackson led them in “Extend the Vote” chants and stated the importance of this “great historic moment in our struggle.”
The colorful tee shirts with the insignia of the NAACP and that of various political and labor organizations; the large banners and towering balloons added a festive dimension to this most significant occasion. The crowd listened intently, applauded frequently, responded enthusiastically as speaker after speaker after speaker emphasized the importance of the re-authorization of the Bill as a protection of the democratic process. They heard from Nelson Rivers, John J. Sweeney, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Vashti McKenzie, Bruce Gordon, John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney, Charles Rangel, Harry Belafonte. Stevie Wonder spoke and amid cheers sang “What the Fuss.” John Legend energized the crowd with “Ordinary People.”
It was a day to remember! As Maxine Waters said, “We didn't come to party. We did not come to play. We came to speak truth to power. We came to take care of the people’s business.”
Bishop Vashti McKenzie aptly summed up the rationale for the march when she declared that we are here today to bring America’s attention to a portion of the Voting Rights Act, which is scheduled to expire. If we allow the Act to lapse there are provisions that would take away the power of federal observers to monitor questionable states that have a history of abuses, such as redrawing districts that would eliminate an equitable voting process. While we are so concerned about democracy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places, we should be just a concerned about democracy here at home. We are helping Iraq to develop a constitution so that its diverse population has equal representation. We ought to be sure that our constitutional guarantees are the same for the diversity of our country. Our forebears fought, bled and died so that we could vote without fear and that our practice would be consistent with our policy for equality in the voting process.
5. CALVIN HOWARD WALTON, BROTHER OF MRS. CLARA WALTON, AMEC PUBLISHING HOUSE LAID TO REST:
Calvin Howard Walton, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle, great uncle, friend, churchman, combat veteran and community leader passed on August 5, 2005. In the Bible it is recorded in Psalm 90:10, “The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength…” Calvin Howard Walton had the strength to labor for eighty years and he used his life to the glory of God.
So, by biblical standards, he had a long life. The late Benjamin Mays, noted president of Morehouse College intoned at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., “It's not how long one lives, but how well.”
Calvin Howard Walton, born in 1925 in Oakland, Tennessee to John Roy Walton and Hortense Baker Walton was the oldest of six siblings. Calvin lived long, but he also lived well.
He attended school in Oakland and graduated from Fayette County (Tennessee) Training School, after which he went into the Army and served his country for four years. He was a combat veteran, having served in Korea and was honorably discharged. He achieved the rank of sergeant.
Calvin was an avid baseball player and was recognized as one of the best baseball players in his community. His local baseball team traveled as far as Missouri and Arkansas. He also played in the Army and was on the U. S. Army baseball team. After the Army, he was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs and the Brooklyn Dodgers, but refused their offers because he wanted to stay in Tennessee and take care of his family.
Calvin was “dapper” and loved to dress. Family members shared that he would travel 173 miles to Nashville two or three times a year to buy hats especially handmade for him.
He was a committed husband and father. When he put his mind and his hands to tasks, he stayed committed. His sister, Mrs. Clara Walton, who works as the Administrative Assistant for the AMEC Publishing House said, “In his youth, he had weakness for girls, far and near, and had a lot of girlfriends, but when he got married he, he only had a weakness for his wife.” He married Mary Harrell and they had nine children – 8 boys and 3 girls. His wife, Mary, preceded him in death. Their legacy includes 17 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. His family said that he loved children and they loved him; many of them called him granddad.
He provided for his family and for many of his neighbors in the community. He raised vegetables in his large garden and sold vegetables on the honor system. The people would take the vegetables and leave the money in a bag. Sometimes after 7 or 8 cars had stopped for vegetables, Calvin would go out to pick up the money and he would find about $10 and at other times after 7 or 8 cars had stopped, he would find about $50. He would often tell buyers to pay what hey could and if they didn't have the money, they could just take the vegetables; or pay later.
He worked for International Harvester and retired after 35 years of dedicated service. He drove 30 miles to and from work for the 35 years he worked at International harvester.
Calvin Howard Walton was a dedicated churchman; he was a member and officer at Cleaver Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland for many years. He served on the usher, trustee, and steward boards, and served on many auxiliaries of the church. He had a stalwart presence at his church.
His pastor, Reverend Coleman, spoke in the eulogy about Calvin in terms of the “strength of a man” and stated that he would be missed. His comments were affirmed by the more than 400 persons who attended his homegoing celebration and by the military honor guard and bugler who rendered military honors for the fallen veteran.
Calvin Howard Walton, a veteran of the Korean War, could have been buried at a national cemetery, but wanted to be buried with his wife and so his resting place is at the Cleaver Memorial CME Church Cemetery, Oakland, Tennessee.
“The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength…” Calvin Howard Walton, born in 1925 and died in 2005 had the strength to accept the promise if God.
6. NEWS FROM AROUND THE AME CHURCH:
Lee Chapel’s Mission Chorus to Sing at Allen University
The Mission Chorus from Lee Chapel A.M.E. Church, Nashville, Tennessee will give a benefit concert at Allen University in Columbia, SC on Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 6 p.m.
The Lee Chapel Mission Chorus is comprised of 25 members from the four adult choirs in Lee Chapel, and comes together once quarterly to give service in churches without choirs in the 13th Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church. Additionally, once yearly, the Chorus travels to a distant location to assist a church with a specific need. For its first effort in 2004, the chorus traveled to Vicksburg, Mississippi to assist Travis Chapel AME Church, which had just completed the construction of a new church edifice, and was making plans to begin a literacy program for the children of the community. In 2005, the chorus will assist Adams Northeast A.M.E. Church in Columbia, SC, where The Rev. Adam China is Pastor. Adams Northeast currently worships in a doublewide trailer but is beginning a capital drive to construct a more traditional church structure. The mission trips are funded by benefit concerts, patrons, the church, and from the choir members’ own pockets.The members of the Lee Chapel Mission Chorus feel blessed to have an opportunity to help others while doing what they love to do -- sing to the glory of God. Paula Y. Holmes, Minister of Music Rev. Edward L. Thompson, Pastor
- Revival Time at Shorter Chapel AME Church, Franklin, Tennessee
Shorter Chapel AME Church, Franklin, Tennessee has been conducting a three-day revival that began on Wednesday of this week. The Reverend Keith Mays, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, Murfreesboro, Tennessee preached on Wednesday and Thursday and what a mighty word! The music was awesome! The Holy Spirit was in that place. Tonight, Friday, the Reverend Roderick Belen, pastor of Kairos Community AME Church, Nashville, Tennessee will deliver the revival message. He will be accompanied by his choir. The Reverend Charlotte Ann Blake Sydnor is the pastor.
- Religious and Civic Leaders Rally behind Bond Clinic
Supporters of the Bond Community Health Center are speaking out against a Leon County health-care committee's vote to spend $1 million in property-tax proceeds on a Tallahassee Community College health-education center.
The Tallahassee chapters of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, along with the Tallahassee Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, organized a press conference Wednesday at Bethel AME Church to protest the primary health-care advisory board's vote.
News extracted from http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/12468136.htm . Jeff Burlew, Democrat Staff Writer, wrote the article
- Dr. Leslie White shares a Website:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9024914/site/newsweek/
7. HIS EXCELLENCY ALPHA OUMAR KONARE, HEAD OF AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION, TO PARTICIPATE IN AME-SADA PROGRAM TO HONOR ITS FOUNDERS SEPTEMBER 17, 2005:
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) - Robert Nicolas, Executive Director of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency (AME/SADA), has announced that His Excellency Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairman of the African Union Commission will attend and receive the Bishop's Humanitarian Award and address the AME-SADA banquet honoring AME-SADA founders on September 17, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA outside Washington, DC.
Dr. Alpha Oumar Konare, former President of Mali, has been in the news recently for his role in helping mediate the crisis in Darfur, Sudan and interlocution with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair in the G8 Debt Relief Program for Africa. Nicolas says that Dr. Konare is receiving the award for his regeneration work in Africa and leadership in addressing issues regarding international aid to Africa.
AME-SADA is well-known and respected in the field of humanitarian outreach. Nicolas comments, "I am pleased that Dr. Konare will join our organization as we honor individuals and concepts that created our involvement in international outreach. The inspiration and vision for AME/SADA grew out of the collective efforts of several concerned individuals in an attempt to strengthen the mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the lives of people overseas."
He continues, "Now, AME/SADA is pleased to have Dr. Konare in attendance to help us honor the people who've helped it make history and provide positive change for people in hundreds of communities around the globe, creating opportunities for people to live safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives."
The September 17th event will pay tribute to AME Church tradition, trailblazers and donors that paved the way for AME-SADA's impressive work around the world. AME/SADA Founders: Bishop John Hurst Adams, Bishop Frederick Calhoun James, Ms. Wilburn L. Boddie, Rev. Lonnie Johnson and Dr. Joseph C. McKinney will be featured. The Founders Event will also be the occasion of the premier of the Helping People to Help Themselves Video Presentation, a story of AME-SADA and its purpose, people, projects and plans.
AME-SADA's story is one of an involved and Christian-centered humanitarian aid agency. AME Church humanitarian aid efforts have evolved since the 18th Century providing a better quality of life for hundreds of thousands. In the story, AME-SADA's actual aid impact in international development and relief projects is illustrated through on-site interviews about operations in Haiti and South Africa. The presentation connects viewers to powerful personal stories and testimonials from: 1) AME-SADA service providers; 2) AME-SADA service recipients and 3) AME-SADA affiliates.
Since its founding, the African Methodist Episcopal Church has been involved in bringing about a better quality of life for people of color around the world. Because they saw the need to respond to challenges facing emerging nations, AME Church visionaries made AME-SADA an operational reality in 1978. Today, AME-SADA is renown in international humanitarian relief and a development agency committed to helping people help themselves, through essential assistance and health, education and micro-enterprise programs to those in need.
AME/SADA's September 17th Founders Banquet will include corporate, foundation and government donors, African and Caribbean diplomatic officials, African American leaders concerned about international aid, as well as AME Church leaders.
For further information regarding interviews with Dr. Konare and/or AME-SADA's Founders Banquet, contact Robert Nicolas (Executive Director) or Tina Newell (Director of Operations) at 202-371-8722 or via e-mail tnewell@ame-sada.org
About His Excellency Alpha Oumar Konare
Alpha Oumar Konare is Chairman of the African Union Commission of the African Union (AU), which was founded in July 2002 as the successor to the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Modeled after the European Union (but currently with powers closer to the Commonwealth of Nations), the AU aims to help promote democracy, human rights and development across Africa, especially by increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) program.
The African Union Commission is the AU's staff support organ. The Commission facilitates and implements the decisions of the AU. As chair of the AU Commission, Dr. Konare faces daunting work on a continent facing formidable problems including war, poverty, disease, and terrorism. A former President of Mali, he is credited with boosting that country's meager economy and fostering its democratic processes.
The fifth of 14 children born to a schoolteacher in western Mali, Konare, 59, went to Poland in the 1970s, to earn a doctorate at Warsaw University. After returning to Mali, he served as the country’s sports and culture minister then as a university professor of history and archaeology.
In 1989, Konare became an outspoken critic of Mali's military dictatorship, launching an opposition newspaper that pressed for the adoption of a multiparty political system. Within three years, Malis longtime dictator was toppled, elections were held, and Konare won the presidency. He was re-elected in 1997. Notably, when his term ended in 2002, he stepped aside passing the post to his elected successor - thereby becoming the first democratically elected leader in Mali's history to relinquish power to another democratically elected leader.
On July 10, 2002, Konare re-entered politics and was elected chair of the African Union with backing of 35 of the 45 countries voting. Several dominant African countries, South Africa and Nigeria among them; believed that the African Union would benefit from the leadership of a former head of state such as Konare; and in the legitimacy and creditability that he could lend to the new organization.
As president of Mali, Konare was known as a pan-Africanist who implemented economic reforms supported by donor communities and helped resolve a rebellion in the north of his country. Konare's Pan-Africanism perspective is said to be one of common cause with citizens of other African nations - a result of shared history and struggle against a number of threats and challenges, among them: racism, colonialist exploitation, neocolonialism, and imperialism. In a broad sense, Konare's pan-Africanism is regarded as the notion that all black persons are "African people," with shared or related cultural traditions and a common history of struggle against many of the same threats and challenges. Pan-Africanists believe that, all blacks, even if they are several generations removed from African soil, as in the case of descendants of African slaves in the Americas, are part of the African Diaspora. And, as such, that it is important that African people work together for one another's empowerment, self-determination and freedom from oppression. Konare is also credited with protecting Mali's archaeological, cultural, and academic histories, with curbing the spread of illegal small arms in Africa, and with bringing information technology to Mali.
In the area of aid and development, Dr. Konare served as a co-chair in The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa with Yoweri Museveni, Bob Dole and Lee Hamilton. In 2002, they sought that the U.S. increase specific assistance in five vital areas: (1) strengthening private enterprise by building on the African Growth and Opportunity Act to open global markets to African raw and processed agricultural products; (2) improving agricultural technology development and transfer, including biotechnology; (3) linking food and emergency aid to a longer-term development strategy, like the Food for Education Initiative; (4) building capacity and institutions for education, research, policy deliberations and governance, including property rights and the rule of law; and (5) creating infrastructure for rural Africa.
In his role as chair of the African Union Commission, Konare's office is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the AU is headquartered.
For further information regarding interviews with Dr. Konare and/or AME-SADA's Founders Banquet, contact Robert Nicolas (Executive Director) or Tina Newell (Director of Operations) at 202-371-8722 or via e-mail tnewell@ame-sada.org
8. POTENTIAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN AME CHURCH AND MAYOR JOSEPH P. RILEY JR.:
Charleston, SC - On Monday morning August 22nd, Bishop Preston Warren Williams II who governs the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which encompasses the entire state of South Carolina, met with Mayor Joseph P Riley Jr. who governs the City of Charleston. The two leaders met at the Mayor's offices located at 50 Broad Street Charleston, SC 29401. They discussed a variety of issues that directly affect the people of Charleston as well as the larger South Carolinian community. The issues of education and affordable housing drew their focus.
In that Bishop Williams is here in Charleston this Monday Aug 22 through Friday Aug 26 in attendance of the AME Church's 2005 Palmetto Annual Conference which is comprised of the Mt. Pleasant, Kingstree and Georgetown Districts and to which approximately 50,000 local members belong, the Bishop commented that, "As I drove the city streets I saw the immediate need for more and better affordable housing." Together he and Mayor Riley explored the possibilities of the AME Church and the City of Charleston forming an alliance whereby the two can work together to more effectively develop affordable housing for the citizens of Charleston. Bishop Williams pledged the AME Church's supervisory as well as financial support towards those ends stating, "The AME Church is ready to assist in whatever ways possible." The Bishop also cited a number of similar affordable housing development deals which he helped come to fruition while Pastoring in Atlanta, GA which have proven to be successful business ventures that have benefited many in need.
Mayor Riley gladly accepted the Bishop's overtures and responded stating, "The Church can be a great partner for developing affordable housing." Mayor Riley then expounded on a number of affordable housing plans either which are under construction in Charleston or which his administration is currently in the process of developing.
The conversation then turned to the state of education in Charleston and South Carolina as a whole. Bishop Williams stated, "We must address the educational inequities amongst the districts." Again, the Bishop spoke of the potential for Faith Based Organizations to partner with city government in a collective effort to make things better for all citizens. Mayor Riley agreed in the positive potential of such a partnership and verbalized the need to seek state funds to assist in the equal distribution of educational opportunities to all children in the city of Charleston and throughout South Carolina. The Mayor further stated, "I strongly believe government should represent and reflect the larger society which it governs." Mayor Riley concluded by promising to continue the dialogue on the various issues he and the Bishop had discussed to see if together they could make these opportunities become realities.
Bishop Williams' faith based business philosophy which is centered in helping those in need is further evidenced in both the October 25, 2004 agreement between the 7th District of the AME Church and the South Carolina Department of Social Services whereby the two organizations partnered in a collective effort to meet the nutritional needs of underprivileged children throughout the state of South Carolina by providing them with a free state sponsored summer lunch, as well as the July 11, 2005 Memorandum of Agreement signed by Bishop William's AME Church and Governor Mark Sanford's Department of Juvenile Justice whereby those two organizations partnered in a collective effort to provide South Carolina's at-risk youth with support and services designed to maximize their potential as positive and productive members of the larger South Carolinian community.
Bishop Preston Warren Williams II is the Presiding Prelate of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church.
With 634 churches statewide, the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church comprises one of the largest religious organizations of African-Americans in the state of South Carolina.
Submitted by Benjamin Harrison, Seventh Episcopal District Public Relations DirectorTelephone: 803.935.0500
Mobile: 803.528.7104Email: HarrisonAMEMedia@aol.com
9. DEATH NOTICE:
Regretfully we share news of the passing of The Reverend James T. Shannon, Pastor of Greer Chapel A.M.E. Church, Memphis, Tennessee, West Tennessee Conference, 13th Episcopal District.
Service Arrangements:
Visitation:
Monday, August 29, 2005
6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
Greer Chapel A.M.E. Church
3205 Chelsea Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38108
901-327-6510 (Phone)
Services: Tuesday, August 30, 200511:00 A.M.
Greer Chapel A.M.E. Church
Eulogist: Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie
Condolences may be sent to:
Mrs. Florence Shannon (Spouse)
1420 Malone Road
Nesbit, Mississippi 38651
901-521-6009
Or to the family of Rev. James T. Shannon
c/o Greer Chapel A.M.E. Church
3205 Chelsea Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38108
901-327-6510 (Phone)
Services entrusted to:
N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home
12 South Parkway West
Memphis, Tennessee
901-948-7755 (Phone)
901-948-7103 (Fax)
Please remember the family in your prayers.
10. DEATH NOTICE:
Regretfully we share the following notice:
From: Mrs. Dorothy Huggins Gordon, of Hudson, New York, sister of Presiding Elder Willis N. Huggins, of the South Alabama, Ozark/Troy District, 9th Episcopal District and Rev. Harold C. Huggins, former Presiding Elder, South District, Michigan Conference, Fourth Episcopal District, passed this life, Tuesday, August 23, 2005, in Albany, New York.
Wake and Funeral services will be held Monday, August 29, 2005, 1 pm at Shiloh Baptist Church, Warren Street, Albany, New York. Condolences may be sent to:
Presiding Elder Willis N. Huggins
261 Hull St. Ozark,
Alabama 36360
and/or
Rev. Harold C. Huggins
3791 Fullerton St.
Detroit, MI. 48238
Please remember the family in your prayers.
11. DEATH NOTICE:
Regretfully we announce the passing of the Reverend Eugene Rose, a retired Pastor and the spouse of Mrs. Laura Zanders Rose, East Conference of the 11th Episcopal District. The Rt. Bishop McKinley Young, Presiding Bishop.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 11:00 AM at St. Paul AME Church, 6910 New Kings Rd, Jacksonville, Florida...Rev. Marvin Zanders is Pastor. (904) 764-2755 & (904) 768-8552.
The Wake is Friday Evening from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at St. Matthew AMEC, 880 Melson Ave, Jacksonville... (904) 388-6900. Rev. Marcius O. King is Pastor.
Condolences may be sent to:
Mrs. Laura Rose
7312 Irving Scott Dr.
Jacksonville, Florida 32209
(904) 168-9000
or
James Graham Mortuary Inc.
3631 Moncrief Rd.
Jacksonville, FL 32209
(904) 766-0436
Please keep the family in your prayers.
From:
Maggie L. Jones
East Conference Convener
11th Episcopal District
12. BEREAVEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS PROVIDED BY:
Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry, Chair
Commission on Social Action Clergy Family Information Center
Mrs. Ora L. Easley - Administrator Email: Amespouses1@aol.com
(Nashville, Tennessee Contact) Phone: (615) 837-9736 Fax: (615) 833-3781
(Memphis, Tennessee Contact) (901) 578-4554 (Phone & Fax)
Please remember these families in your prayers.
13. CONDOLENCES TO THE BEREAVED FROM THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER:
The Chair of the Commission on Publications, the Right Reverend Gregory G. M. Ingram; the Publisher, the Reverend Dr. Johnny Barbour and the Editor of the Christian Recorder, the Reverend Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III offer our condolences and prayers to those who have lost loved ones. We pray that the peace of Christ will be with you during this time of your bereavement.
