Bishop Gregory G. M. Ingram - Chair, Commission on Publications
The Reverend Dr. Johnny Barbour, Jr., Publisher
The Reverend Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III, Editor
1. THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH MOURNS THE PASSING OF ONE OF ITS BELOVED BISHOPS – THE RIGHT REVEREND HAROLD BEN SENATLE:
Harold Benjamin Senatle, the 102nd bishop of the Church, was born in Christiana, South Africa to William and Anne Senatle. He was the second South African-born bishop in the history of the AME Church. The first bishop was the Right Reverend Frances Herman Gow, who served from 1956 to 1964. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was educated in Christiana. Senatle completed his secondary education at Tigerkloof High School and later responded to the calling of the ministry. He was ordained in 1950 in East Transvaal, South Africa, he has pastored at Brandford, Orange Free State; Mt. Sinnah, Edenburg; Mt. Pisgah, Bethlehem; Mt. Nebo, Wikom; Mt. Zion, Gloemfontein, and St. Peter in East Transvaal.
He served as the administrative assistant to Bishops Harrison Bryant, Frederick James, G. Dewey Robinson, Donald G. K. Ming, and John Hunter.
Reverend Senatle was elected to the episcopacy at the 42nd Quadrennial Session of the General Conference in Kansas City in 1984. He served the 18th, 19th, and 15th Districts before retiring in 2000 at the 46th General Conference in Cincinnati. His legacy includes building the Episcopal Headquarters for the 19th District.
Bishop Senatle encouraged young men and women to equip themselves academically and he was a vocal opponent of the apartheid laws.
In 1980, the Wilberforce University (Ohio) honoured him with a doctorate in divinity.
His wife of almost 50 years, four children, 20 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survives Senatle. One son, the Reverend Thabo Senatle is pastor at the Trinity AME Church in Evaton. Another son, Pitso, left South Africa in 1976 and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a mathematics lecturer at Morris Brown College.
The leadership, pastors, and laity of the African Methodist Episcopal offer its condolences to the Senatle family.
2. THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MOURNS THE DEATH OF BISHOP HAROLD BEN SENATLE:
The African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa has lost one of its beloved bishops, the Right Reverend Harold Ben Senatle, at the ripe age of 79, spokesperson for the church, the Reverend Themba Mbambo announced this week.
A friend of the Ecumenical Movement in South Africa, Bishop Senatle, who was born on December 16, 1926, took an active role in both the affairs of the South African Council of Churches and of the South African Leaders' Religious Forum, distinguishing himself, according to Mbabo, "as a Pastor and presiding elder very vocal about the oppressive laws of apartheid". Said Mbambo: "He built schools, churches and the AME headquarters at Phillips Street, Johannesburg. As the church, we are proud of his contribution and the role he played in the struggle to bring education to African children, and in his own right, contributed meaningfully to the demise of apartheid in South Africa."
Senatle, born in the small town of Christiana in the then Western Transvaal, received his secondary education at Tigerkloof, and later responded to the call of the ministry of the AME Church, studying at the RR Wright Theological Seminary at Wilberforce, Evaton, Gauteng. In 1980, the Wilberforce University, Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, honoured him with a doctorate in divinity. In 1988, he held the distinction of being the second African person to have been elected bishop of the AME in its 92 years of existence in South Africa. His episcopacy covered Botswana, Free State, Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo, Cape Province, Namibia and Angola.
The General Secretary of the SACC, Mr Eddie Makue, said the Ecumenical Movement was greatly indebted to the leadership of Bishop Senatle. "We extend our deepest condolences to his family and the AME Church of which he was the leader. In this difficult time, we trust that his wife and family will be comforted by the knowledge that we share in their loss," said Makue.
His wife of almost 50 years, four children, 20 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survives Senatle.
For more details, contact: Reverend Teboho Klaas (082 412 2960)
http://www.sacc.org.za/news06/senatle.html
11 April 2006
3. FORMER MORRIS BROWN PRESIDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO EMBEZZLEMENT:
From The Associated Press – ATLANTA
The former president of Morris Brown College pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling federal funds that were intended to cover student tuition.
Delores Cross, 69, who was president of the 125-year-old college from November 1998 until February 2002, entered the plea in front of U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes at a morning hearing.
Monday's plea agreement dismisses 27 other counts Cross was facing in connection with the case. Had she gone to trial on the single count to which she pleaded guilty, Cross could have faced up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
Instead, prosecutors are asking that Cross receive a sentence of 10 to 16 months in prison. Her attorneys indicted in court that they would seek a lesser sentence of zero to six months because of an undisclosed medical condition.
The prosecution and defense agreed she will pay $11,000 in restitution if it is imposed by the judge.
Cross' trial had been expected to begin Monday.
At one point in recent years, MBC enrollment plunged from 2,000 students to as low as 80. (http://www.ap.org/ )
Cross declined to be interviewed Monday but released a statement through her attorney, Drew Findling, "I will always regret what happened," Cross said. "And I apologize to the students, faculty and staff of Morris Brown College." (http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/index.html)
4. BISHOP VINTON ANDERSON TO SPEAK AT SHORTER COLLEGE GALA:
The 12th Episcopal District family of the African Methodist Episcopal Church takes pride in demonstrating our support of Shorter College, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
A Benefit Banquet will be held on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel – Grand Ballroom, 11301 Financial Centre Parkway, Little Rock, Arkansas. The keynote speaker will be retired bishop, the Right Reverend Vinton R. Anderson, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Anderson was the Editor of the A.M.E. Hymnal, and the past President of the World Council of Churches.
Proceeds of this event will provide educational opportunities for students at Shorter College.
The public is invited to attend. Tickets donations are $100.00. If you would like to purchase tickets or place an ad in the souvenir book please call the 12th Episcopal District Office – (501) 375-4310.
Editor’s Note: Bishop Anderson caught the Editor’s mistake in the article about the Delaware Annual Conference when it referred to Deaconesses being ordained. Deaconesses are consecrated, not ordained. Thank you, Bishop Anderson.
5. FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR MIKE BARTA
Congratulations to our Pastoral Intern, the Reverend Mercedes Tudy Hamilton who received an appointment as Pastor of Union Bethel A.M.E. Church in Great Falls, Montana from our Bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Richard Bryant, this past week. Rev. Mercedes will officially report to her new assignment on Sunday June 18th and will be working diligently in the mean time, to bring closure to her work and responsibilities here at Johnson Chapel. On Sunday June 11th at the 11:00 AM Worship, our Church Family will join together to celebrate this remarkable Woman of God and to sow seeds of favor and blessing into her life as she prepares to move out in faith and fulfill the calling that is so clearly on her life. Please keep Rev. Mercedes in your prayers in the days and weeks ahead as she makes preparations to take this very big step in her life and ministry.
Yours in the Joy of Jesus,
Pastor Mike
6. RACIST CLASSIC “BIRTH OF A NATION” ON RARE VIEW TUESDAY NIGHT (5/2/06):
By JIM AUCHMUTEY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/02/06
One of the most notorious films ever made is getting a rare national broadcast Tuesday night on Turner Classic Movies.
"The Birth of a Nation," D. W. Griffith's 1915 epic about the genesis of the Ku Klux Klan, depicts a lynching and two threatened sexual assaults on white women by black men. The major black characters are played by white actors in blackface. The title cards for the three-hour silent film include offensive dialect and the N-word.
7. MEDIA ADVISORY:
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Governor Ernie Fletcher today (5/2/06) will announce an Entrepreneurial Trucking Initiative in Louisville. The initiative is designed to bring economic opportunity and prosperity to individuals and communities in the Greater Louisville Area, particularly those in the Empowerment Zone.
WHO: Governor Ernie Fletcher
WHAT: Entrepreneurial Trucking Initiative
WHEN: 11 a.m., Tuesday, May 2, 2006
WHERE: Quinn Chapel AME Church
1901 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd.
Louisville, KY.
8. DOWNSIZING AMERICA’S FUTURE “ALONG THE COLOR LINE”:
Dr. Manning Marable
A quarter century ago, the United States embarked on an economic crusade to “downsize” its working class: to eliminate millions of jobs by outsourcing employment abroad, and to push millions more middle-class employees into low-wage jobs. The argument advanced by U.S. corporations was that in an age of global economic competition, American workers were simply “overpaid” and weren’t as productive as their European and Japanese competitors. By cutting salaries and benefits, terminating pensions, eliminating jobs, and forcing workers to pay for their own health care, U.S. corporations could stay competitive in global markets.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the vast majority of layoffs occurred within the working class, especially skilled labor and manufacturing jobs. Blue collar workers were pushed in the service sector, frequently earning less than one-half of what they previously had been paid. Airplane mechanics and factory foremen were counseled to learn basic computer skills in order to compete for $10 per hour jobs that couldn’t cover their home mortgage payments or children’s college tuition bills.
An important new book by New York Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, fully documents the disastrous consequences of downsizing and mass layoffs. According to Uchitelle, between 1984 and 2004, approximately 30 million Americans were involuntarily “laid off” or fired. Millions more who feared losing their jobs either took early retirement, or agreed to accept significant cuts in their wages or benefits. Surprisingly, layoffs nationwide rose faster in the early 1990s than the early 1980s, as President Bill Clinton aggressively preached that labor had to lower its wage demands in order for American businesses to be competitive in global markets. As Uchitelle explains, “As much as anyone, [Bill Clinton] disconnected the Democratic Party from its past, specifically its New Deal concern for job security and full employment.”
Throughout the 1990s, the layoffs spread into the ranks of white-collar professionals – managers, technicians, information technology employees, and engineers. In the early 2000s, workers in manufacturing took another round of devastating layoffs, by which African-American workers were particularly hard hit. In 2004 alone, overall union employment in the U.S. declined by 304,000, and African Americans comprised 55 percent of that drop, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between 2000 and 2004, the number of black American union members plummeted from 2.5 million down to 2.1 million, a decline of 14.4 percent. Hundreds of thousands of African Americans who once held high-paying union jobs are forced into nonunion employment in food services, ground maintenance, and as security guards. And, increasingly, undocumented immigrants who can easily be exploited to accept even lower wages and no benefits are replacing thousands of black low wage workers.
In those few unions in which African Americans still comprise significant percentages – such as the American Federation of Government Employees, with nearly 25 percent of its 211,000 members who are black – federal jobs are being lost through the Bush administration’s policy of privatization. As the federal government outsources jobs and downsizes, African Americans lose out. Advances in automation at the U.S. Postal Service, primarily in the development of rapid mail sorting machines that require fewer workers, have also eliminated thousands of postal workers’ jobs, which have historically had a very high percentage of African-American employees.
The bitter irony of the downsizing, layoff mantra that politicians and corporate executives proclaim is that there is growing economic evidence that destroying jobs is actually bad for both the economy and for worker productivity. In The Disposable American, Uchitelle notes that many of the American corporations that show the highest rates of growth over the past decade have not downsized at all. Workers who have greater workplace satisfaction, flexibility and comprehensive benefits for health and their post-employment security are far more productive.
So, the great political question of our time is whether both Democrats and Republicans will mindlessly continue to permit the predatory corporations and privatizers in government to continue mass layoffs, downsizing America’s future. The government’s currently low “official” unemployment rate deceptively masks the fact that between 2001 and 2005 over one million Americans left the work force and aren’t even counted as “unemployed.” Another 4.2 million who are “part-time employees” today cannot get full-time jobs. As millions more are pushed toward unemployment lines, and elderly workers without pensions are coerced to seek toward fast food and Wal-Mart employment, how long will it take until the majority of America’s electorate explodes with anger about the disappearing promise of a middle class lifestyle? How long will it take even millions of white-collar managers and professionals, “yuppies” and “buppies” alike, to comprehend that they, too, are increasingly “expendable” in the brave new world of globalization and downsizing privatization?
Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science,
History, and African-American Studies, and the Director of the Center for Contemporary Black Politics at Columbia University, New York City. “Along the Color Line” appears in over 400 publications internationally, and is available at www.manningmarable.net
9. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS HONOR NOTED BLACK JOURNALISTS:
WASHINGTON May 1, 2006 The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will induct a noted Washington post columnist, two icons of the magazine industry and a legendary media executive into the NABJ Hall of Fame this year, the association announced today.
At its spring meeting in Indianapolis last week, the NABJ Board of Directors voted to add the following legends into the NABJ Hall of Fame:
- Lerone Bennett Jr.: Writer and social historian who served as Ebony magazine’s executive editor for nearly 40 years. His written work deftly explores the history of race relations in the U.S. and his comprehensive articles have become one of the magazine’s literary hallmarks.
- Albert Fitzpatrick Jr.: Former assistant vice president of minority affairs for Knight Ridder from 1994 to 1985. Before joining Knight Ridder, worked for 29 years at the Akron Beacon-Journal, ending his newsroom career there as its first black executive editor. A former NABJ president, Fitzpatrick earned an NABJ Lifetime Achievement Award in (1984) and the Ida B. Wells Award in 1989.
- William Raspberry: Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist for The Washington Post and winner of NABJ’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Raspberry started as a columnist at The Post in 1966 and his work appeared in more than 200 newspapers before he recently retired.
- Susan Taylor: A name synonymous with Essence magazine, Taylor served as Editor-in-chief of the magazine from 1981 to 2000. Under her guidance, Essence experienced phenomenal growth, reaching black women worldwide. She remains editorial director and a voice with her “In the Spirit” column, which addresses themes such as family, faith, self-esteem and health. She continues to be a mentor for young people in crisis as well as a symbol of black beauty and inspiration.
The recipients will be inducted during a special ceremony at the 2006 NABJ Convention & Career Fair in Indianapolis, Aug. 16-20. The 15-member Board also awarded several distinguished journalists top honors in the organization’s annual Special Honors awards, to be delivered at the NABJ Awards Gala in October in Washington, D.C.:
- Cynthia Tucker, editorial columnist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as Journalist of the Year.
- Earl G. Graves Sr., founder, chairman and publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine, as recipient of the NABJ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Other Special Honors winners include:
- Lawrence Young, The Riverside Press- Enterprise, Legacy Award
- Trymaine Lee, New Orleans Times- Picayune and Errin Haines, Associated Press, Emerging Journalists of the Year
- DeMarco Morgan, WISN-TV (Milwaukee), Community Service Award
- Ruth Tisdale, Howard University, Student Journalist of the Year Award
- Kip Branch, Elizabeth City State University, Journalism Educator of the Year Award
- Deyda Hydara and the Gambia Press Union, Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award
- The Indianapolis Recorder, Best Practices Award
Finalists for Chapter of the Year are the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, Las Vegas Association of Black Journalists, Houston Association of Black Journalists and the Bay Area Black Journalists Association.
The Carolina Association of Black Journalists and Temple Association of Black Journalists are vying for Student Chapter of the Year. Winners in those categories will be announced at NABJ’s 31st Annual Convention and Career Fair, Aug. 16-20, in Indianapolis.
Bennett, Fitzpatrick, Raspberry and Taylor will be inducted during the annual Hall of Fame banquet at the convention. Winners of the other Special Honors categories will receive their awards at either the banquet or at the 2006 Salute to Excellence Awards Gala, Oct. 14 in Washington.
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with nearly 4,000 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
http://www.najb.org/
10. MESSAGE FROM TYLER PERRY:
Okay here's the big news. Many of you may remember a few years ago I was going to do a TV show. I was very surprised to find out that in TV when you go the traditional route you really have no control over your show. They tell you what to say how to say it, and when to say it. God forbid you try to say Jesus. This didn't sit right with me at all. When it comes to me and us, I feel like I know what we want to see so if it doesn't feel right to me I have no problems walking away no matter how much money. I was not about to go on TV and have you all talking about me saying this show is terrible...what was TP thinking. It wouldn't have been because I didn't give my ideas, but because they shot it down and I was out of there on the next thing smoking.
With all of that said and because of your investment in me I was able to write produce and finance 10 episodes of my first sitcom called "House of Payne." Allen Payne (Jason's Lyric, New Jack city) plays a fireman named CJ whose wife has a drug problem and burns down their house to cover their mounting debt. So, they have to move in with his parents Cassie Davis, and Lavan Davis form "Madea Goes to jail." CJ has two kids and he and the grands have very different ideas about raising these kids.
I wanted this show to be what my movies are, funny but serious with life lessons in them. Like my plays, but for TV. Do you remember those shows like "All in the Family", "Good Times", "Rosanna", and "Cosby". The shows that everybody wanted to watch because they not only made you laugh, but they had some heart. Well, this is one of those shows with heart.
This was a huge gamble, but if I know anything I know my faith. And I know my folks, and that's why I did it. If you give it a chance I know you're going to love it. This has never been done before, not like this, but I know it will work. I'm always asking ya'll to do something, buy this book, pay to see my movie, buy a ticket to the play, buy the DVD. Well, now I can say this wont cost you anything, just a little of your time.
Now, these ten episodes will run only in ten selected cities. If I had my choice it would have been all over the country. I'm working with a company that needs to know that people will watch it if it goes to the rest of the country. So it airs in New York and Houston on May eighth, and eight other cities, soon to follow.
Here is the schedule as I know it. As we get closer to the release date of your city, I'll send you some reminders. I hope I don't work on your nervous by then. (smile) If you are not in these cities and you know people in them, please call them and ask them to watch.
Visit http://www.tylerperry.com/ to see TV listings / schedule.
P.S. - Maybe you can forward this email to other people in the area. We need every body to watch. I know you're going to love it.
Tyler Perry
Editor’s note: Tyler Perry’s new book, “Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings” is #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers’ List. (ISBN: 1-59448-921-1). This first book from Tyler Perry is a confessional memoir in the voice of Madea, the beloved, sharp- tongued, worldly, pistol-packing grandma who is at the center of Perry's stage shows.
11. THE PASTOR’S CORNER - THE ABUNDANT LIFE:
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:9-10)
The “full life” Christ came for us to live is a quality of life that reflects the presence and nature of God in all we do. Porter Barrington, author of the Christian Life New Testament presents a wonderfully understandable introduction to the concept of abundant living. “All believers have eternal life through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. Not all believers enjoy “life to the full,” abundant life, as described by Jesus in John 10: 10. If we are believers and not living the abundant life, we are living beneath our privilege.”
I recently read a story that vividly illustrates the importance of living the abundant life – life to the full:
There once was a country where only ducks lived. On a Sunday morning, all the ducks came into the church, waddled down the aisle into the pews, and squatted. The duck minister waddled into the pulpit and read from the duck Bible. “Ducks! You have wings and with wings, you can fly like eagles. You can soar into the sky! You have wings!” At the conclusion of the message the ducks said, “Amen” and all waddled home. (Daily Uplink – April 26)
Unfortunately, this is so frequently true of believers in Jesus Christ. God has given us all we need to live life to the full – abundant life. Yet, we continue “waddling” through life, never living at the level of our privilege.
John 10:10 – What is the “abundant life?”
The word used in this passage for life is the Greek word Zoë. It describes a quality of life that reflects the presence and nature of God in all we do. Am I living at or beneath my privilege? Do others see the presence and nature of God when observing my life? What do others see?
Jesus tells us He is this life, and as God Almighty, (John 14: 6) Jesus is the source of abundant resources. The abundant life is a life of abundant resources and it comes from the only unlimited source of life, Jesus Christ. Am I living at or beneath my privilege? What do I see as the sources for my living?
Jesus describes Himself as the vine to which all the branches must be connected to have life (John 15: 1-5). The abundant life is the life of the believer lived in dependence on Jesus Christ, so Christ’s life reflected through the life of the believer. Am I living at or beneath my privilege? On whom or what do I depend?
The abundant life is living “in step with the Spirit.” (Galatians 5: 22-24) It is life that bears the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Am I living at or beneath my privilege? What fruit does my life bear?
The Apostle Paul reminds us receiving pardon from Jesus for our sins is only the beginning of our new life in Christ (Philippians 2: 12-13). Abundant life is the salvation we received through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection being worked out in our everyday practices. Am I living at or beneath my privilege? Is the salvation from sin I now possess being demonstrated in my daily living?
Anything less than the abundant life is a life of defeat (Galatians 5: 19-21). We will soon yield to sin instead of reaping the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Anything less than the abundant life is simply “waddling along.” We will be circumstance controlled (John 14: 27) instead of walking in the peace of Jesus Christ. Anything less than the abundant life is a life of isolation. We damage or destroy relationships God has established for our lives (Galatians 5: 26) when we could be enjoying the fellowship of others. Anything less than the abundant life is a life of “drama.” We bring trouble and discord into our lives (Galatians 6: 7-10) when we could be bringing a harvest of good. Our next several weeks will explore the meaning, value, and living the abundant life (life to the full).
Pastor James Moody
Quinn Chapel AME, Chicago
12. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
The Reverend Lloyd Staple, Pastor of Bethel AME Church & Grace Temple AME Church, Jamaica, died last week. His funeral will be held on Sunday, April 30, 2006.
Condolences may be emailed to his wife, Mrs. Lloyd Staple.Email to: daintydor@yahoo.com
Submitted by: Sandra Pyke-Anthony (16th Episcopal District)
Please remember the Staple family in your prayers.
13. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Dr. Curtis N. Adams, Sr. brother of Dr. Dorothy Adams Peck, immediate past Connectional President of the Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church passed on Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Dr. Curtis N. Adams was a retired dentist who practiced in Baltimore, Maryland.
Service Arrangements for Dr. Curtis N. Adams, Sr.Friday, April 28, 2006
Visitation:
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
March Funeral Home West
4300 Wabash Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Wake: (Family will receive friends) 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Funeral: 11:00 A. M.
Heritage United Church of Christ
3110 Liberty Heights Ave.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 542-1204 - Phone
Interment immediately following service at:
Woodlawn Cemetery
2130 Woodlawn Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21207
Professional Services entrusted to:
March Funeral Home West
4300 Wabash Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
(410) 542-2400 - Phone
(800) 456-8964 -Toll Free
(410) 542-4507 Fax
Condolences and expressions of sympathy may be sent to:
The family of Dr. Curtis N. Adams, Sr. (church or funeral home addresses).
Or to:
Dr. Dorothy Adams Peck
4001 Haden Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
(561) 845-1941 Phone)
(561) 842-9976 (Fax)
Email: DADAMSPECK@aol.com
14. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
From: Presiding Elder Dennis J. Hampton, Muskogee District (12th Episcopal District, AMEC), Email: PastorHampton@aol.com
The Rev. Jessie "JC" Williams "went home to be with the Lord" on Tuesday, April 25, 2006. He served as Pastor of Peters Chapel AME Church, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
ARRANGEMENTS:
Thursday May 4, 2006 - 1:00 PM
Vernon AME Church
307-11 N. Greenwood
Tulsa, OK 74120
918-587-1428 - Office
The Rev. Michelle Moulden, Pastor
Eulogist: Rev. Dennis J. Hampton, P. E
Services Entrusted to:
Jack's Memory Chapel
801 East 36th ST, N
Tulsa, OK 74106
428-4431 - Office
428-4437 - Fax
Condolences may be sent to:
Mrs. Jacque Williams
6524 East 21st PL #113
Tulsa, OK 74129
Email: medisinwoman@cox.net
Please remember the family in your prayers.
15. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
The passing of Mrs. Malissa Nelson Tyson, the mother of Mrs. Linda T. Eason, First Lady of Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, Georgia and the mother-in-law of the Rev. Gregory V. Eason, Sr., Senior Pastor of Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta.
Celebration of Life Service for Mrs. Malissa Nelson Tyson:
Date: Saturday, May 6, 2006
Time: 11:00 a. m.
Place:
The Union Missionary Baptist Church
3900 Broadway
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
(561) 845-7320
Funeral Home:
Siders Funeral Home
1600 N. Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
(561) 820-1403 - Phone
(561) 820-1405 – Fax
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to:
The Malissa N. Tyson Scholarship Fund
P. O. Box 1162
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Messages of condolence may be sent to:
The Rev. and Mrs. Gregory V. Eason, Sr.
Big Bethel A.M.E.
204 Auburn Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404)827-9707- Phone
Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers.
16. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Mr. Robert Inkton, the brother of the Rev. Shirley Inkton Bowers, will be funeralized on Friday, April 28, 2006, 11:00 AM at the Riverview AME, 213 Glenview Lane, North Arkansas, Arkansas.
Services are being entrusted to:
Hubble Funeral Home
1213 Washington Avenue
North Little Rock, AR
Rev. Bowers and her family may be contacted at:
2300 Rebsamen Park Road, #201A
Little Rock, AR 72202
Sister Anita Brannon
Please remember all of the bereaved families in your prayers.
17. CLERGY FAMILY 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.
18. 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
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