Bishop Gregory G. M. Ingram - Chair, Commission on Publications
The Reverend Dr. Johnny Barbour, Jr., Publisher
The Reverend Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III, Editor
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2. THE NUMBERS FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ HAVE “GONE SOUTH”:
The War in Iraq began on March 19, 2003 and has lasted almost three and half years. The Iraq War had now gone on longer than World War I, the Korean War, the first Gulf War, Panama, and if the War in Iraq goes on until November 2006, will have lasted longer than World War II which lasted three years, eight months.
The death toll for U.S. troops had not exceeded 2500. Pentagon reports 18,490 U.S. Troops have been wounded; 4,800 Iraqi police and security forces have been killed and approximately 30,000 civilians have been killed.
The cost for the war will probably exceed $319 billion. Just think about the numbers of young people whose college tuition could have been paid with the money the U.S. has spent on the War in Iraq. It pains me to think of the number of social programs that could have enhanced blighted neighborhoods and lifted poor people from poverty. Just think of the money that could have been put into science and technology programs. It’s no secret that we do not have enough graduates in science and technology to meet the demands of our nation and as a result, have to rely upon graduates from India, China, Bangladesh and other countries to meet our nation’s technological requirements.
I hope that Congress will vote to bring our troops home. I agree with Representative John Murtha, D-Pa, that the U.S. has exhausted its military usefulness in Iraq. We are now caught in a civil war between the Sunnis and the Shias. We support the troops, but we do not support them being kept in harms way.
3. MOSQUITOES BEARING THE WEST NILE VIRUS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN TENNESSEE:
The Tennessean newspaper reports this morning that mosquitoes carrying the deadly West Nile Virus (WNV) have been discovered in the Nashville area for the first time. I would have thought that would have been page-one news. Instead that news was “buried” on page 2B of the local section along with the Ozone level alert. I just wondered why the news of officials finding mosquitoes bearing the West Nile Virus wasn’t on the front page.
Sometimes you have to read further into an article and in doing so I discovered that the infected mosquitoes were found in a Northwest Nashville neighborhood near the intersection of Clarkesville Highway and West Hamilton. Use your imagination to guess what proximity and in whose neighborhood the mosquitoes bearing the WNV was found and you might understand why the news of mosquitoes carrying the deadly virus appears on page 2B of the Local section of The Tennessean.
I wonder where in the newspaper it would have been placed if the infected mosquitoes had been found in Brentwood or in Green Hills areas of the Nashville metropolitan area.
4. AME CHURCH CELEBRATES ASTRONAUT STEPHANIE WILSON’S NASA LIFT- OFF:
The first and oldest institution in this country continuously run by persons of African descent, the church of Richard Allen and Rosa Parks – who sparked the most notable civil rights protests in America’s history, is also the church of NASA mission specialist, Stephanie Wilson, 39, who lives in Clear Lake, Texas. She is one of seven astronauts scheduled to blast off aboard space shuttle Discovery tentatively on July 1. It will be the first mission for Wilson, who will be the second black female to make the trip, after Mae C. Jemison, whose mission was in 1992.
Reports of an ecumenical prayer service that involved clergy from throughout Galveston, Texas were illuminated by bright sunshine beaming through the stained glass windows of Reedy African Methodist Episcopal Church on last Sunday. Some 150 people sang, clapped and danced to show support for Wilson, who has attended Reedy since 2000, well before being considered for her upcoming mission. She is a trustee of the church and a member of the choir.
"Stephanie is just a very humble and gracious person," said lifelong church member Diane Moore. "You ask her to do something; she'll do it and do a very good job." On Sunday, Ms. Wilson was surrounded by a prayer circle of prayer warriors led by the pastor of Reedy Chapel AME Church, Rev. Brenda Payne who continues to encourage young girls to meet Stephanie and reach for the outer limits, just as Ms. Wilson has done. “Reedy Chapel is a noteworthy site since it is the mother AME Church in Texas and also the site where the second reading of the Emancipation Proclamation took place,” noted Jeri Lyons, a fellow parishioner.
Next month's 11-day mission on the Discovery will be just the second shuttle flight for NASA since the Columbia explosion in 2003 that killed seven astronauts.
Wilson, who holds a bachelor's degree in engineering science from Harvard University and a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, has worked for NASA since 1996. She said she has no fears about her voyage. "We've trained pretty extensively," said Wilson, a Boston native. "It's a big dream. It's exciting that it's coming true."
Curing the Celebration, Bishop Gregory G. M. Ingram, presiding bishop of the AME Church in Texas, and President of the Council of Bishops, called for all to envision Stephanie Wilson’s journey as a sneak preview of heaven. He noted that upon her return Stephanie could tell all what ‘heaven is like’.
The flight will take several thousand pounds of cargo and German astronaut Thomas Reiter to the international space station, where he will join two others. It will also allow astronauts to try out new measures and devices on the shuttle meant to improve safety, Wilson said.
Sunday's service featured countless passionate prayers for Wilson and the Discovery crew from representatives of area churches and temples. One prayer asked for minimal damage to the shuttle's foam, another for valuable experimental test results and another for favorable weather.
Also praying for Astronaut Stephanie Wilson is her former church family – Ward AME Church in Los Angeles, California, where she worshipped while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. At Ward, Stephanie was a member of the Lay Organization, the choir, and a trustee. Her humility and graciousness boldly speak for her Christian witness and role modeling for all young women, but especially women of African descent.
Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry, chair of the AME Church’s Social Action Commission declared with joy and pride that, “The international African Methodist Episcopal Church, spearheaded by the Social Action Commission, assembled in Charleston, South Carolina will honor one of its own with a personalized anvil, and a pendant.” Bishop Guidry continues exclaiming that, “From around the world AME’s will be in prayer on July 1st at lift off, during the 11-day journey, and at touchdown scheduled for Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Information from The Houston Chronicle, Gwen Morris, Jeri Lyons, and “Jackie” DuPont-Walker
Submitted by Sister Gwen Morris
June 12, 2006/ (323) 564-1151
5. THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH’S RESPONSE TO MUTUAL RECOGNITION AND MUTUAL RECONCILIATION PREPARED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND E. EARL MCCLOUD, ECUMENICAL OFFICER AND ENDORSING AGENT FOR THE AME CHURCH:
The Rev. Guy Waldrop
Chairperson - Ministry Task Force
Churches Uniting in Christ
700 Prospect Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44107
Dear Rev. Waldrop:
The idea behind the Mutual Recognition and Mutual Reconciliation of Ministries presented in the document are commendable. The contents, however varied, leave a lot to be desired in application. The idea of speaking with “the voice of one church” is desirable.
Accordingly, attached as Enclosure 1 are some composite comments from across the African Methodist Episcopal Church in response to the studied document dated June 2005. The proponent office for this coordinated response is the Office of Ecumenical & Urban Affairs – African Methodist Episcopal Church
Toward Enlightenment,
The Right Reverend E. Earl McCloud, Jr.
Enclosure 1
6. ENCLOSURE 1 – THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH RESPONSES TO MUTUAL RECOGNITION AND MUTUAL RECONCILIATION OF MINISTRIES:
1. In reference to the threefold pattern of ordained ministry, will the AME Church discontinue using the term “itinerant elder” and replace it with “presbyter”? And since that term means something different for the Presbyterian Church (USA) and other CUIC churches; how will those differences be handled?
2. The question of Apostolic Succession and Historic succession (see Paragraph 77). While references in the document were not as clearly explained as they might have been, it is clear that some bishops are superior to others; in order for all bishops to be on the same level, another group would have to participate in the consecration of said bishops. That does not seem to foster mutual recognition or mutual reconciliation of ministries. It appears that this will be a sticking point in the discussion, especially among those church partners who are not viewed as part of the historic succession. Why should the Episcopal Church need to offer the gift of apostolic and historic succession? True mutual reconciliation and recognition would mean accepting the doctrine and discipline of the partner church as it has been determined by that church.
3. Recent developments within the historic Christian Community are sufficient for the AME Church to reconsider its situation and relationship or revise its Theological History. These developments and the denominations involved are as follows:
a. The Episcopal Church
i. The narrow view of historic and apostolic episcopacy.
ii.The ordination of a homosexual Bishop.
b. United Methodist Church - hiring and admitting AME clergy without always following established protocol.
c. The United Church of Christ – permitting its clergy to unite in holy matrimony persons of the same sex.
d. Presbyterian Church - use of layperson as celebrants of Communion in ecumenical gatherings presents some problems, however this is not a derailing issue.
4. The historical understanding of the following will need some considerable new definitions:
a. Episkope
b. Diocese
c. Synod
d. Apostolic
e. Succession
f. Presbyter
5. There is a need to clarify the role of Deacon. The discussion of the traditional threefold order of ministry used over the centuries: bishop, presbyter and deacon, seems unclear. What is clear is that while this vocabulary will be used, each partner church will define that function according to its own doctrine and discipline, using its traditional nomenclature. But since the use of deacon is so varied now, it is not clear how it will be recognized between church partners. More clarification is needed in this area.
6. The approval of gay marriage is a pagan contradiction of creation and the creation process of continuing the species. Whichever theory of creation you accept, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, or the Big Bang, the creative process is the interaction of opposites. The UCC’s position offends the faith.
7. The Episcopal Churches reach to control the idea of Episcopacy in America is unacceptable and made ridiculous by their ordination of the “openly gay practicing homosexual” as one of their Bishops.
8. The possible consequences of these reflections on our Ecumenical Relations and on the work of the Ecumenical Officer of the African Methodist Episcopal Church have not been ignored in taking these positions. We think our cooperation and fellowship with these denominations whose theology and polity are often in direct conflict with our theology and polity should be restrained.
The Right Reverend E. Earl McCloud
7. DR. JOE DARBY SHARES VIRUS WARNING:
Since I get so many "bogus" virus warnings, I couldn't resist passing on a real one that appeal to our natural vanity! I got a note tonight from "Joseph Hope at Yale University" advising me that I'd be listed in their next issue of Campus Life magazine and asking me to review an attached photo and bio for accuracy.
The "photo and bio" (that I never sent to them) were in a "zipped" file, and that seemed unusual, so I did a little checking and found that the zipped file was a known Trojan that can infect and subject your computer to control by a highjacker, for more details, click on:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/a-virus/v-joseph.htm
I take this to be a simple reminder of three things:
1. It never hurts to check out a "warning" or "special offer" on a good search engine like Google to see if it's for real,
2. Sometimes (if not most times) the real threats are those that come to us without shrill warnings, and,
3. If you get something from someone you don't know that includes an inviting or apparently innocent attachment, don't open it unless you can check it out or verify with the sender that it's legit.
Be blessed,
Joe Darby
8. WOMEN IN MINISTRY PRAISE AND WORSHIP SERVICE:
The General Board begins with the annual WIM Praise and Worship Service will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 25.
The Sixth Annual Jarena Lee Award Breakfast will be held at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27. “Sister Presiding Elders” who have served more than 10 years will be honored. The Right Reverend Carolyn Tyler Guidry, presiding prelate of the 16th Episcopal District will be the keynote preacher for the breakfast.
Beginning Thursday, June 29 through Saturday, July 1, the 2006 AME/WIM Connectional Conference opens with a special invitation for all persons attending the General Board to be a part of the Thursday evening “Dinner Dialogue with the Bishops of the Church.” The opening worship service will follow the dinner.
Turner Theological Seminary Breakfast at the General Board and Bishops' Council Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
The Turner Theological Seminary Breakfast will be held on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 7:00 a.m.
The House of Turner Speaks: A Forum with the Alumni Bishops of Turner will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
The Turner Alumni Association Meeting will be held on Tuesday at 5:30 pm - 7:30 p.m. and h’orderves will be served.
Alumni Dues are $50 which includes: Membership Card, By-Laws and Constitution, Yearly Subscription of The House of Turner Newsletter and Turner Theological Seminary Lapel Pin or Key Chain. (Alumni will be able to pick these items up at the 5:30 pm scheduled meeting)
9. CONNECTIONAL PRESIDENT JAMESINA M. EVANS’ MOTHER’S DAY ADDRESS CELEBRATES “A TRILOGY OF WOMANHOOD;” ROSA COLLINS, ETHEL HALE AND EDITH WARD NAMED “MOTHERS OF THE YEAR”:
LOS ANGELES — (June 12, 2006) — Sister Jamesina M. Evans, the Connectional President of the Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, recently keynoted the WMS Annual Day of Grant A.M.E. Church in Watts.
Evans’ Mother’s Day message took the theme of “A Trilogy of Womanhood” a step further, focusing on young, middle-aged and older mothers.
Evans highlighted Biblical mothers in all three areas who experienced miraculous conceptions: Sarah, who conceived in old age; Hannah, who was once barren; and Mary, mother of Jesus. Moreover, the mother of two and grandmother of three challenged the mothers assembled to follow the examples of faith, patience and honor these Biblical women epitomized.
There were also present-day models of excellence in motherhood to emulate. Longtime Grant members Rosa Collins, Ethel Hale and Edith Ward were named “Mothers of the Year” by the Mother’s Club of Grant. Each honoree was presented a plaque and bouquet of roses and was joined by members of their respective families.
In his remarks, the Rev. Leslie R. White, pastor of Grant, congratulated the recipients and spoke of the importance having a person of international influence like Evans address the congregation.
“Oft times we think of the position of President of the United States or Secretary General of the United Nations as being unattainable,” he said. “But here is a former teacher, school administrator, adjunct college instructor, and entrepreneur whose work as a missionary spans the globe.”
“We are blessed that you chose to accept the invitation to address our Annual Day and are thankful for the leadership you have provided at the Connectional level,” echoed Local President Sister Shirley Longmore during her presentation to Evans.
In addition to gift bags during both the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services, Evans also received commendations from U.S. Representatives Juanita Millender-McDonald and Maxine Waters.
Likewise, Sister Longmore, Southern California Conference Branch WMS President Sis. Lessie Thompson, and Grant’s First Lady, Sis. Renee White, all were given flowers and gifts in appreciation of the love and support they’ve shown to the Willie B. Webster Missionary Society of Grant Church.
Also honoring outstanding motherhood were the Mighty Men of Grant who presented $100 gift certificates to the First Lady, and associate ministers the Reverends Carolyn Baskin-Bell and Hester Lively.
Creative Mother’s Day tributes were offered by poetess par excellence Sister Theresa Lawrence, as well as by the Illumination Drama Guild, under the direction of renowned actress Senait Ashenafi. The short skit entitled, “It Would Have Been Enough,” marked the debut of the youth unit of the Drama Guild, as each youth offered a brief statement of what makes their mother special.
Later, each mother in attendance received a special gift on behalf of the Church, specially prepared for the occasion by Sis. Audrey Horton and Sister Renee White
10. MORE AFRICAN METHODISTS AT THE HAMPTON UNIVERSITY MINISTERS INSTITUTE:
Please be advised that there were several pastors who attended the Hampton's Minister's Conference of 2006 from the Fourth Episcopal District:
The Rev, Cecelia Breene-Barr, Trinity AME Detroit, Michigan (Michigan Annual Conference); the Rev. Jimmy Thorn-St. James AME Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Annual Conference); the Rev. Darryl Williams, St. Mark AME Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chicago Annual Conference) and the Rev. Carey Andrew Grady, St. Peter AME Decatur, Illinois (Illinois Annual Conference), and others
Submitted by the Rev. Carey A. Grady
St. Peter AME Church
515 S. Church Street
Decatur, Illinois 62521
217-423-5648 Church
217-423-0569 Fax
11. CLERGY AND OTHER CAREGIVERS VULNERABLE TO TRAUMA, STRESS BURNOUT SAYS HUMANITARIAN AGENCY:
Series of Post-Katrina Mississippi Coast Workshops Will Focus on Self Care for This 'Vulnerable Population'
GULFPORT, MS - Wed June 14- As post-Katrina recovery continues along the Gulf Coast and a new hurricane season is already making its mark this week, the region's faith leaders and other caregivers are learning a hard lesson: how to care for themselves.
Area faith leaders and caregivers are invited to attend one of three half-day "Caring for Caregivers" workshops scheduled for June 20, 22, and 23 in Bay St. Louis, Gulfport and Ocean Springs, Mississippi -- all devastated by Hurricane Katrina. One workshop will be held each city (dates, time, and locations below). The seminars presented by humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) and the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force, will be held.
The "Caring for Caregivers - Preparing for the Long Haul" workshops are designed for whom the seminar's presenters refer to as one of the most vulnerable and least-served populations in the protracted aftermath of disasters like Katrina.
"Clergy are well-versed in grief counseling. They learn that in seminary," says workshop co-leader Dr. Alan Baroody. "What American faith leaders haven't been trained for, he says, "is how to deal with the trauma that can follow a massive, community-wide disaster."
And, says Church World Service seminar coordinator William Sage, clergy are vulnerable to taking care of others first but not caring for themselves.
CWS consultant and workshop co-leader Dr. Katrina Cochran says the workshops first provide clergy and other caregivers an overview of the appropriate psychological and emotional care for disaster victims,"' she says, illustrating "how trauma care differs from the typical grief model. But then we spend the rest of the time on the importance of self-care for the caregivers themselves."
An April Caring for Caregivers workshop that Church World Service and the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force held in Gulfport, Mississippi, drew nearly 70 people, mostly clergy from Moss Point, Biloxi, Pass Christian, Diamondhead, Ocean Springs and Bay St. Louis, but also Lao and Vietnamese Buddhists from Bayou La Batre in Alabama.
"One pastor who participated in the April seminar said 'I have no one to talk to.' He had no one," Baroody said. "His house had insurance, but he had nobody."
Right after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and in the months that followed, media reports showed local church leaders opening the doors of their churches to take in those who'd lost their homes. They gave material goods and pastoral care to the grieving and traumatized and those who had nowhere to go.
Despite massive government, aid agency and public support nationwide, many across coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are still pulling their lives together.
"But what the stories have shown little of," says CWS' Sage, "are the personal losses, damaged or destroyed churches and homes, and the ongoing stresses that the faith leaders themselves have experienced."
What do caregivers do in the face of such overwhelming, immediate and continuing needs, when the demands of care begin to erode their capacity to continue?
First, say the seminar's leaders, caregivers have to recognize their condition. "The power of denial in these situations is just incredible," says Cochran. "Often, when caregivers listen to me in these workshops, I know they're thinking about someone else rather than themselves.
""We tell participants, 'because of your caring heart, you may tend to over-function for a time. We want to keep you in the business as long as possible,'" she says. "One of the most difficult things to get across to clergy and other caregivers in disaster situations is the need for their own self care."
Cochran says, "If people haven't self cared to some degree, they won't be attending our seminars. By now, they'll have quit, even left the clergy, or transferred to another part of the world. The people who may think they have a problem, who're on the cusp, are the ones who'll be there," she says.
The "Caring for Caregivers - Preparing for the Long Haul" workshops are part of Church World Service's Interfaith Trauma Response Training program, initiated following September 11.
Cochran had extensive experience working with trauma victims following September 11, as well as the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and in Church World Service caregiver workshops in Florida after the 2004 hurricane season.
Seminar consultant Alan Baroody is a member of the Church World Service Spiritual and Emotional Care Resource team and is Executive Director for the Mary Lou Fraser Foundation for Families, Inc., Hinesville, Georgia. A Presbyterian minister, pastoral counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist, Baroody focuses on the spiritual and emotional dimensions of disaster recovery.
"Even when not under trauma," he says, "pastors experience tremendous stress. Lots of pastors leave the ministry due to stress-related issues."
Add the trauma of a massive disaster on top of high professional stressors, says Baroody, "and some pastors themselves become victims. They burn themselves out, they may neglect their families."
Roberta Avila is Executive Director of Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force (IDTF) in Gulfport and co-sponsor for the workshops. Avila says her organization had been working with Church World Service on other aspects of long term recovery following Katrina. But she was also keen to bring CWS' Interfaith Trauma and Recovery Trainings to the region
IDTF was organized in 1980 to assist community-level churches and other organizations in providing post-hurricane long-term recovery services for vulnerable populations. IDTF is activated only during times of need. Before Katrina, IDTF was last mobilized in 1998 following Hurricane George.
Avila says, "The Caring for Caregivers seminars are about learning how to manage your stress and realizing how managing your stress impacts how you serve others.
"In the April seminar in Gulfport, one participant said she valued the emphasis on understanding that how she felt was important. She said she'd placed her feelings on hold. But in order to serve others, she had to take her own feelings into account."
Avila, a licensed therapist and a Mexican American, said it's important for caregivers to realize that "The work will always be there,” to combat the belief that "I can't stop because there's so much to do.
"This rebuilding on the Gulf Coast will take eight to ten years," she said.
Setting boundaries key to self care
Church World Service's Sage says helping caregivers set healthy boundaries is fundamental to good self-care. The agency's workshops stress setting boundaries for family time, for work schedules, for time out.
Setting personal boundaries before a disaster is key, says Alan Baroody. "They're ever more difficult to set after a disaster."
"Preparation tends to minimize trauma," echoes Cochran.
Baroody says in working with emotionally- and physically-taxed caregivers they see the results of weak boundaries: "It's the look of eyes glazed over, Bambi in the headlights. Some pastors go and go and go. It's the way they cope with their own trauma by not feeling."
"With Katrina and Rita," he said, "the support systems weren't there. The infrastructure wasn't there. Many came back to nothing or a church that was severely damaged. Some are really hurting. They have their own families, their own lives to put back together."
"Pastors can't be fix-it people to everyone," Baroody said. "Pastors and imams and rabbis need first to know the resources that are available to help people. They need to know when to refer and to whom to refer."
CWS' Sage says the trainings' approach is "holistic. A disaster affects the community, not just one group or one demographic, not just the rabbis, the imams or the United Church of Christ pastors and parishioners. It affects everyone.
"And the process of grief includes finding a new reality together" he says. "Building in a foundation of self-care strengthens that new reality.
"We plan the seminars for faith based caregivers," Cochran says. "However, we don't know who needs to be in the room, but God does. So anyone who comes, we welcome."
WHEN & WHERE:
Tuesday June 20
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Christ Episcopal Church
912 S. Beach Boulevard
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Wednesday June 21
1:00 - 4:30 PM
Trinity United Methodist Church
5007 Lawson Avenue
Gulfport, Mississippi
Thursday June 22
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
St. John Episcopal Church
705 Rayburn at Porter
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Lesley Crosson/Church World Service/New York, (212) 870=1676, lcrosson@churchworldservice.org
Jan Dragin - 24/7 - (781) 925-1526, jdragin@gis.net
For registration: Cindy Lamb, Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force, Gulfport, MS; phone (228) 868-0961 or clamb@msidtf.org
12. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
From: 1wim@htcomp.net
We are saddened to announce the death of Mrs. Helen White, the aunt of the Right Reverend Gregory Gerald McKinley Ingram, Presiding Bishop of the 10th Episcopal District. Service Arrangements for Mrs. Helen White:
Thursday-June 15, 2006
Family Hour 10:30 AM
Homegoing Service 11:00 A.M.
New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
6330 Pembroke
Detroit, Michigan 48221
The Rev. Dr. Wilma R. Johnson-Senior Pastor
(313) 341-4883 Phone
(313) 341-4203 Fax
Professional services are entrusted to:
Swanson Funeral Home Inc.
4751 West McNichols Road
Detroit, MI 48235
(313) 272-9000 Phone
(313) 272-4494 Fax
Condolences may be sent to:
Bishop Gregory & Rev. Dr. Jessica Ingram
4927 Holly Tree Drive
Dallas, Texas 75287
Ph: (214) 647-1984
Please be in prayer for Bishop Ingram and his family
13. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
From: Bishop Sarah F. Davis, bishopsarah@leo.co.ls
Presiding Bishop of the 18th Episcopal District
The homegoing of the Reverend Jose' Luis Sevene, former presiding elder of the Maputo District, Mozambique Annual Conference.
Service Arrangements for the Reverend Jose' Luis Sevene have been made as follows:
Homegoing Service 08h30, Saturday, June 17, 2006
William P. DeVeaux A. M. E. Church
Maputo Mozambique
The Reverend Dionisio Mazuze - Pastor
Phone: 011-258-823-551600
The Reverend Vasco Tui, Presiding Elder, Maputo District
Phone: 011-258-823-9197390
Burial at Lhanguene Cemetery.
Condolences may be sent to:
The Family of the Reverend Jose' Luis Sevenec
or
Sister Sara Zandamenla Moiane
Rua Valentim Siti No 410
Maputo, Mozambique
Phone: 011-258-843-176420
E-Mail Address: sarazandamela@tvcabo.co.mz
Please be in prayer for the family of the Reverend Jose' Luis Sevene and the Mozambique Annual Conference.
14. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Please note that funeral services for Mrs. Dolores Ortega Williams, mother of the Rev. Deidre Woods-Walton, will be held on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 1:30 P.M. at Ward A.M.E. Church, 1177 West 25th Street, Los Angeles - CA 90007. Rev. C. Dennis Williams, Pastor.
The Rev. Woods-Walton is pastor of Imami Mission in Santa Clarita, CA.
Messages of condolences may be sent to:
The Rev. Deidre Woods-Walton and Family
C/O 19695 Horace Street
Chatsworth, CA
(661) 714-8103
Please remember the family in your prayers.
15. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Ms, Carolyn Elaine Beattie Rooks , the sister of Rev. Janie Dowdy-Dandridge, pastor of St. John AMEC Springfield, Tennessee and the Sister-in love of the Rev. John Dandridge, pastor of Mt. View Decherd, Tennessee passed away on Wednesday June 14, 2006. Ms, Carolyn Elaine Beattie Rooks was the Principal at Florida Kansas Elementary School in Memphis.
Funeral arrangements as follows:
Visitation will be held Sunday 2-4 p.m. at M. J. Edwards Funeral Home on Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, Tennessee
Funeral will be held on Monday 11:00 A.M. at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church 918 Lonney Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.
Messages of condolence
The Rev. Janie Dowdy Dandridge
1512 Raby Avenue
Shelbyville TN 37160
Telephone: 615 419-5783
16. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
From: charmayne@charmaynedavis.com
I regret to inform the connection of the passing of the Rev. Charles Henry Robinson.
Rev. Robinson passed suddenly on June 4. He was a member of St. Paul AME Church, Stuart Florida. Rev. Robinson was a lifelong member of the AME Church and he pastored churches in Florida for over 36 years (11th Episcopal District Florida/Bahamas-Greater Bethel/Gainesville, Greater Hurste/Sarasota, St. Andrews/Jacksonville Beach, Allen Temple/Lake Wales, Mt. Zion/Belle Glade, Mt. Zion/Tallahassee, St. Paul/Ocala). He is the brother of Sister Deborah Langston, Exhorter and President of the South Conference Lay Organization and the Rev. Lorenzo Robinson, Itinerant Elder, both of the 11th Episcopal District.
Rev. Robinson's Home Going Celebration was held on Saturday, June 10th at Saint Paul. Rev. Henry R. Jackson (Retired) delivered the eulogy. Rev. Robinson leaves one son, two daughters, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two brothers, eight sisters and a host of relatives and friends.
Condolences may be sent to:
Sister Deborah Langston
c/o St. Paul AME Church
900 East Avenue
Stuart, Florida 34994
The Rev. Hector Smith, Pastor
Sister Langston can be reached by phone at 1-772-283-6543.
Email condolences to: DEL125@aol.com.
Submitted by the Rev. Charmayne Davis
Quinn Chapel AME Church
Louisville, KY
Please remember the family in your prayers
17. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
From: cox3635@hotmail.com
The Rev. Thomas C. Bolton passed away on Tuesday, June 13, 2006, at 6:45 PM at the Methodist Hospital North in Memphis, TN. Rev. Bolton was the pastor of Noah Chapel AME Church, Millington, TN for 40 years and retired in 2004. He served his entire ministry in the 13th Episcopal District and all but one year in the West Tennessee Conference. Rev. Bolton (a great singer and revivalist) will be missed by all of the members of the West Tennessee Conference. He was married to Mrs. Clara Wakefield Bolton.
Service arrangements:
Visitation: Friday, June 16, 2006
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Memorial Service: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Jefferson's Mortuary
7788 Church Street
Millington, TN 38053
901-872-8800 (Phone)
901- 872-4722 (Fax)
Funeral: Saturday, June 17, 2006
1:00 PM
Gilfield Baptist Church
8335 Pleasant Ridge Road
Millington, TN 38053
901-829-4365 Phone
Condolences may be sent to:
Mrs. Clara Bolton (His Widow)
9645 Deadfall Road
Brighton, TN 38011
901-829-2070 Phone
Email condolences may be sent to: cox3635@hotmail.com
Please remember these families in your prayers.
18. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS PROVIDED BY:
Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry, Chair
Commission on Social Action Clergy Family Information Center
Ora L. Easley
Email: Amespouses1@aol.com
Phone: (615) 837-9736
Fax: (615) 833-3781
Voice Mail: (615) 833-6936
Cell: (615) 403-7751
19. 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
Archive of The Christian Recorder Online from 2004-2016; Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III, 20th Editor of The Christian Recorder
