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Reverend Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III, the 20th Editor, The Christian Recorder
1. TCR EDITORIAL – I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AME CHURCH NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS THAT ACKNOWLEDGE… (PART 1):
Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III
The 20th Editor of
The Christian Recorder
We are approaching the season
and the time of year when people make resolutions. One the big events about the New Year is the
challenge to start over or to “turn a new leaf.”
I have made many resolutions
in my lifetime. I have resolved to eat healthier, relax more, slow down, take
weekend retreats, and enjoy the grandchildren.
I am afraid that most of my
resolutions lasted a couple of weeks and maybe even a month, but somehow, by
the time I got to Founder’s Day, my resolutions had “dropped by the
roadside,” but, sometimes, I would have
a second-chance opportunity to revisit some New Year’s resolutions during
the Lenten Season. Sad to say, some of
those “dropped by the roadside” too.
I am not proud of it, but I
have been more unsuccessful than successful with New Year’s resolutions and
even my Lenten resolutions.
But…
I have managed a few
successes.
A couple of times a New
Year’s resolution “hit a bump,” but I recovered during Lent and made fulfilled
my commitment all to Easter.
One example
After many, many years, I decided
that I was not going to be one of those preachers who preached for years and
years, died and had not read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
In 2006 I decided to accept
my challenge for reading the Bible from cover to cover. I failed when I made reading the Bible from
cover to cover a 2006 New Year’s resolution and failed when I made it a 2006
Lenten challenge. Thankfully, I didn’t give up.
On May 13, 2006, I bought The Bible in 90-Days and began the
exhilarating journey of reading the Bible from Cover to cover on May 17, 2006
and completed the task on August 9, 2006.
I count reading the Bible
from cover to cover as one of my singular successes and I have done it seven
times.
Reading the Bible from Cover to
cover was not accomplished as a successful New Year’s resolution or a
successful Lenten resolution. It was accomplished because I was committed to
the task and didn’t give up the challenge.
I am planning an eighth challenge beginning January 1, 2014. Consider
this an invitation for anyone wishing to join in the reading.
Enough about my challenges
I have some personal News
Year’s resolutions, but I also have some New Year’s resolutions I would like
the African Methodist Episcopal Church to embrace. I have probably mentioned
all of them before, but I am persistent because I want our Zion to resolve to
address the concerns that I believe are important to our church, our ministry,
and to the communities in which we serve.
The first Sunday in December
was World AIDS day and my sense is that the day passed in many of our churches
without comment. We seem oblivious to the HIV/AIDS endemic.
Since the retirement of
Bishop Philip Cousin and Supervisor Margaret Joan Cousin; except for the Rev.
Dr. A. Oveta Fuller’s weekly TCR Column,
Getting to Zero; we hear very little
substantive chatter about how the local and connectional church is dealing with
the HIV/AID endemic.
Dr. Fuller shares excellent
information and strategies for dealing with HIV/AIDS in attempts to get us to
Zero, but we need action. I would like to see an AME Church News Year’s
Resolution that local churches and the connectional church will commit to deal
with HIV/AIDS. Former Supervisor Joan
Cousin, come out of retirement and lend your voice to the cause!
I would like the AME Church
to resolve and commit itself to more training, especially in the areas of
ethics and morality, and leadership. We
cannot assume all clergy are without ethical and moral challenges.
All of us face challenges and
we all are confronted with moral and ethical decisionmaking. The ministry is
highly stressful and when professional people are under extreme stress,
rational decisionmaking can be affected.
The AME Church should not
ignore the stress its pastors are under. It doesn’t matter if a church is large
or small, pastoring is stressful.
When pastors encounter a
moral or ethical misstep, it’s not always because they have lost their ethical
and moral compass; some of it can be related to stress. I would like the AME Church to resolve to
have more ministry-focused training that deals with ethical and moral behavior.
Many of our churches and
churches in other denominations are failing because of the lack of leadership
training for both clergy and laity, but most especially for clergy. Effective
leadership has to be developed and re-developed.
The AME Church leadership
cannot assume ordination confers leadership competency. Some of our churches would function more
effectively with leadership training. More leadership training might lessen the
work of Ministerial Efficiency Committees. I would like to see an AME Church
News Year’s Resolution that acknowledges that it will deal with moral and
ethical behavior and leadership.
I have several more
resolutions that I would like to see the AME Church embrace, but I need to get
ready to leave for Charleston, South Carolina to attend the General officers’
Retreat. (Part 2, to be continued next week).
TCR Editor’s Note: The Christian
Recorder print edition is behind because of printing press replacement,
staff shortages, holiday closings, and a heavy production schedule. The issues
have already been prepared and are in the queue.
2. MANDELLA MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME
BOOKLET:
Access the President Nelson Mandella
Memorial Service Programme Booklet by opening the link below.
3. WAR VETERAN TOMBSTONE UNVEILING OF LATE REVEREND WILLEM MOSES HANSE:
The AME Church's Namibia Annual
Conference, part of the 15th Episcopal District, under leadership of Bishop
David R Daniels Jr, is delighted and proud to announce and share that:
1) The late Reverend Willem Moses Hanse
was declared a War Veteran of the Namibian Nation in 2010, acknowledging his
contribution and selfless sacrifices to the Namibian anti-Colonial and
anti-Apartheid Liberation Struggle,
2) The late Reverend Willem Moses Hanse,
who has served the AME Church faithfully at Rehoboth, Luderitz, Aus, Walvisbay,
Kronlein, Uibis, Gibeon, Maltahohe and Mariental until his homegoing in April
2012, and received a funeral with War Veteran benefits, and
3) The Namibian Ministry of War Veterans
is currently in process of erecting a befitting tombstone on his grave, and we
now give notice that the Unveiling
Ceremony is scheduled to take place on Monday, 16 December 2013 from 09:00
onwards.
Blessings,
Presiding Elder Willem Simon Hanse
+264812039539
Presiding Elder Penias E Topnaar
+264812705534
4. BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS FACE
PERSISTENT HURDLES, REPORT FINDS:
The Campaign
for College Opportunity says African Americans continue to face obstacles to
graduation and turn to costly for-profit schools.
By Carla
Rivera
December 8, 2013,
9:09 p.m.
More black
students in California are earning bachelor's degrees than they were a decade
ago, but enrollment in the state's public universities is stagnant and many are
turning to costly for-profit schools, according to a new report.
The road to
graduation for black students is still pitted with obstacles, despite efforts
to close achievement gaps that have persisted over the years, according to the
report released by the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy
group.
Among the
findings:
• Blacks have
the lowest completion rates for freshman and transfer students at all three
higher education segments: community colleges, California State University and
the University of California.
• Black
students are more likely than any other group to attend college without earning
a degree.
• In 2012,
more black students were enrolled at private, for-profit colleges than at Cal
State and UC combined.
• The
achievement gap between blacks and whites earning a bachelor's degree or higher
has narrowed by only a percentage point over the last decade. In 2011, about
24% of black adults had obtained a bachelor's compared with 41% of whites.
A report
released by the group last month found similar hurdles in higher education for
Latinos.
Black
students, however, appear to have been disproportionately affected by policy
decisions such as the state ban on affirmative action in education and budget
cuts in recent years that resulted in significant declines in enrollment at
community colleges and Cal State campuses, the report said.
Reluctance on
the part of policymakers and educators to tackle racial disparities head-on is
one factor in the persistent gaps, said Michele Siqueiros, executive director
of the Campaign for College Opportunity.
"I've
come to be more convinced of an inability to really address these issues more
openly in a way that forces state policymakers to come up with ideas and
colleges to find solutions," Siqueiros said. "Especially after the
ban on affirmative action, we don't feel comfortable talking about race, and
nothing really happens."
Educators said
they too were disheartened by the lack of progress and argued for more state
funding of support services.
"While we
have a real challenge on our hands in making sure black and other students
achieve success, the reality is that these students need more services in order
to be successful," said Jamillah Moore, chancellor of the Ventura County
Community College District and former president of Los Angeles City College.
"We need to follow up and identify where the best practices are and what
is working."
The report
contained some good news: The proportion of black students earning a bachelor's
degree increased to 24% from 18% over the last decade, and over the last two
decades the number of blacks who graduate from California high schools rose by
48%. But many of those graduates fail to complete the course requirements
needed for admission to Cal State and UC.
Black students
also have the lowest admission rates to UC — 58% — of any ethnic group, and the
rates have declined significantly since 1994, when 75% of black applicants were
admitted, according to the report.
Admission
rates vary widely by campus: UC Merced, for example, admitted about 76% of
black applicants; and UCLA, in a region with the state's largest black
population, admitted 14%.
The report
also noted that black adults ages 25 to 34 are less educated than those ages 35
to 64. (The report used census data, state and federal education information
and statistics from California's three systems of higher education.)
"It means
that we have failed an entire generation of African American students, and we
need to ask ourselves what caused this discrepancy and ensure that we are not
making the same mistakes with the next generation," said state Sen. Holly
Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), chairwoman of the California Legislative Black
Caucus.
She said
caucus members would hold hearings in their districts to discuss the problem in
an attempt to find solutions.
Many black
students are plagued by low incomes and by attending struggling high schools
where they receive little academic preparation and counseling for college, said
William Franklin, vice president for student success at Cal State Dominguez
Hills.
That lack of
direction is often extended when they enter public colleges, derailing many who
see a quicker path to graduation at for-profit schools.
"At most
four-year schools they get a general education packet, but they have no idea of
how a philosophy class, for example, relates to getting a job, and there's no
one helping them make the connection to the real world," Franklin said.
"There's not a clear pathway from the time they enter to getting a degree."
Dominguez
Hills is seeing success in retention and graduation rates with an intensive
program that builds competency in math and English with mentoring and
supplemental instruction provided by peers.
Alyssia
McPherson said she entered Dominguez Hills from her Los Angeles high school
academically and socially unprepared for college and struggled with remedial
math and English.
"I moved
on campus, away from my family, and it was a very different atmosphere to be on
your own and test how responsible and disciplined you are," said
McPherson, 20, a sophomore majoring in communications.
She passed her
remedial courses and also received special counseling and other support
services to get on track for a degree.
"Now, I'm
more aware of where I'm going and how to figure out a plan and strategy,"
she said. "I always had one, but it wasn't as definite as it is now."
5. SIX OUT OF TEN UNINSURED AFRICAN AMERICANS MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID,
CHIP OR TAX CREDITS IN THE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE:
95 percent of uninsured African
Americans might qualify for lower costs on coverage if all states expanded
Medicaid
According to a new report released today by
the Department of Health and Human Services, six out of ten (4.2 million)
uninsured African Americans who may be eligible for coverage through the Health
Insurance Marketplace might qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP), or tax credits to help with the cost of
premiums. If all states took advantage
of new opportunities to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act,
95 percent of uninsured African Americans who may be eligible for the Marketplace
might qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or
tax credits to help with the cost of premiums.
“The health care law is working to
address long standing disparities in health care coverage and improve the
health of the African American community,” said Secretary of Health and Human
Services Kathleen Sebelius. “Through the
Health Insurance Marketplace, 6.8 million uninsured African Americans have new
options for affordable health coverage that covers a range of benefits,
including important preventive services with no out-of-pocket costs.“
Today’s report also details uninsurance
rates by state and provides several examples of what premiums might look like
for African Americans living in major metropolitan areas. One fifth of uninsured African American citizens
and permanent residents live the greater Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Dallas,
Houston, and Detroit metropolitan areas.
A 27-year-old in Atlanta with an income of $25,000 can pay as little as
$105 a month for a bronze plan after applying the tax credit, while a family of
four with an income of $50,000 could pay $148 a month for a bronze plan after
applying the tax credit.
Nationwide, about 2 million uninsured
African Americans may be eligible for coverage through Medicaid or the
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
States have new opportunities to expand
Medicaid coverage to include Americans with family incomes at or below 133
percent of the federal poverty level (generally $31,322 for a family of four in
2013). This expansion includes adults without dependent children living at
home, who have not previously been eligible in most states.
An additional 2.2 million eligible
uninsured African American adults with family incomes below 100 percent of the
federal poverty level live in states that are not expanding Medicaid. The
number of uninsured African Americans who may be eligible for access to health
coverage at a lower cost would increase from 60 to 95 percent if all states
adopted the Medicaid expansion.
To read today’s report, visit: http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/UninsuredAfricanAmericans/ib_UninsuredAfricanAmericans.cfm
To learn more about the Health Insurance
Marketplace, including, to shop and enroll in coverage online; visit
HealthCare.gov. You can also enroll by phone by calling our call center
1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1 855-889-4325) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week where help
is available in 150 languages, or you can find in-person help from certified
assisters in your area by visiting localhelp.healthcare.gov/. You can sign up for a health insurance plan
through the Marketplace between now and the end of March 2014.
6. FISK UNIVERSITY’S ACCREDITATION REAFFIRMED:
-- Fisk University’s Accreditation Reaffirmed
Nashville, TN, December 10, 2013 – Fisk
University announced that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’
Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) reaffirmed its accreditation and removed the
probation sanction today.
Under the dynamic and visionary
leadership of President H. James Williams, who took the helm on February 1,
2013, the University engaged in a series of strategic initiatives to address
all of SACSCOC’s concerns. “In the past
couple of years we had deficits and had to make the case of why we had
deficits,” Dr. Williams said. “This time, we’ve finished the 2012-13 year in
the black, exceeded our fundraising goals for 2013, and increased our
enrollment in Fall 2012 and Fall 2013. We’re in the black for the first quarter
of this fiscal year (2013-14) and have made a number of fundamental changes in
how we handle our financial affairs,” said Dr. Williams.
Noting that the University’s fiscal
operations, recruitment, retention, fundraising and communications/public
relations efforts have all been recalibrated to function more effectively, Dr.
Williams said, “At the end of the day,
SACSCOC expects institutions to show that they are in compliance with the Principles
of Accreditation and are financially viable.
Fisk University is, in fact, in full compliance and financially viable.”
Dr. Williams indicated that the entire
Fisk University family is jubilant that SACSCOC recognized their Herculean
efforts to assure a positive outcome.
“Today is sort of another ‘Jubilee Day’ for Fisk University. October 6, 1871 was the day our original
Jubilee Singers left the campus on a fundraising mission to save Fisk. December 10, 2013 marks the day that Fisk
received its reaffirmation without a blemish and enables Fisk to continue the
excellent work it has performed for almost 148 years. We began our Fisk Renaissance in February,
and now that our accreditation has been reaffirmed, we will move forward full
steam ahead,” he said.
SACSCOC is the regional commission
responsible for accrediting degree-granting institutions in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and some institutions in Latin America. The Board
of Trustees of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on
Colleges is the representative body of the 804-member College Delegate Assembly
and is charged with carrying out the accreditation process. To gain or maintain
accreditation, an institution must comply with Commission policies and with all
standards contained in the Principles of Accreditation.
7. A STATEMENT FROM THE SOCIETY OF JESUS ON TIME MAGAZINE’S SELECTION OF
POPE FRANCIS AS PERSON OF THE YEAR:
Head of U.S. Jesuit Order Congratulates
Pope on Honor
Washington, D.C., December 11, 2013 —
Pope Francis has been named 2013 “Person of the Year,” the iconic title given
to one individual or group each year since 1927 by the editors of Time
magazine. The title goes to the person who has had the greatest impact on the world
and news for the past year, and previous recipients include Mahatma Gandhi,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as two
popes: Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II.
According to Father Thomas H. Smolich,
S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference, “Pope Francis is a man with a deep
connection to the poor and marginalized. He knows how to translate what is in
his heart into actions — whether it’s washing the feet of Muslim prisoners on
Holy Thursday to launching a global campaign to end world hunger to
establishing a commission to address the clerical sexual abuse crisis. He desires to lead a Church that unifies
rather than divides, and he gives both believers and seekers a reason to be
proud.
“The Society of Jesus salutes Pope
Francis, our Jesuit brother, on the singular honor of being named Time
magazine’s Person of the Year,” said Fr. Smolich.
8. iCHURCH SCHOOL LESSON BRIEF FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 - OPENING THE
WAY - LUKE 1:57–58, 67–79:
Bill Dickens, Allen AME Church, Tacoma,
Washington
Church School Lesson Brief
Sometimes in an entertainment activity
like theater or sporting events the audience see a special person who will get
everybody ready for the main attraction.
The title this person carries is commonly referred to as a “set-up”
specialist. In the sport of baseball, a
team like the New York Yankees will instruct a middle relief pitcher to be a
set-up pitcher for a few innings and then hand the ball over to baseball’s
consummate closer, Mariano Rivera so that “Mo” can secure the win. For many years Ed McMahon functioned as
Johnny Carson’s “set-up” man before Mr. Carson entered to host the long-running
NBC late night show, The Tonight Show.
The Adult AME Church School lesson for December
15, 2013 looks at a special “set-up person,” John the Baptist. John was the son of Zecharias and
Elizabeth. Zecharias, like Mary before
him offers a song of praise celebrating the birth of his son.
Christians celebrate the birth of a
child with varying ceremonies and observances that testify to their faith. Believers serve God as an expression of their
hope and faith in divine providence.
The
AME Church, like Zechariah, celebrates the birth of children. The Doctrine and Discipline of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church- 2012
(The
DD AMEC 2012) outlines specific procedures where the presiding minister,
parents and church observes participate in the celebration of infant
baptism. We acknowledge the gift of
birth is a blessing granted by God and we affirm our thanks through obedience
and service (The DD AMEC 2012, beginning
pages 510 ff).
While it is a cliché` to say, “Children
are our future,” the evidence is indisputable that God blesses children and
requires adults to be responsible in raising children in a home environment
that promotes Godly deportment and behavior.
*Brother Bill Dickens is
currently the Church School Teacher at Allen AME Church in Tacoma,
Washington. He is currently a member of the Fellowship of Church
Educators for the AME Church.
9. MEDITATION BASED ON ISAIAH 40:1-8:
*The Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Darby
My assignment as a Presiding Elder keeps
me on the road visiting each of the thirty-three churches in the Beaufort
District at least four times a year.
Much of my “road time” is spent on a stretch of U.S. Highway 17 south of
Charleston that was designated one of South Carolina’s most dangerous roads
before reconstruction and improvement began nearly a decade ago.
That reconstruction and improvement
required the environmental protection of sensitive wetlands and the
reconstruction of multiple bridges, and was still in progress when I began
traveling that road regularly. I spent
nine months traveling that road at reduced speed - navigating orange and white
traffic barrels, watching portions of the road open, close and be repaved, and
dealing with the “adventure” of water that pooled on the road during heavy
rains.
Traveling that highway under
construction was a major and seemingly unending aggravation, but when that
finally completed road opened a couple of weeks ago, the aggravation melted
away. What was once a dangerous, narrow
road is now a modern, safe, scenic and almost boringly efficient four lane
highway.
Remember my experience on U.S. Highway
17 south of Charleston as you travel the roads of life. Life’s roads can easily become deadly and
dangerous when disappointments, demands and sources of stress and aggravation
put unexpected obstacles in our way and narrow our aspirations and
expectations. Life’s roads can often
seem to be so complex and confusing that we wonder what to do, where to go to
find relief and how long we’ll have to struggle to simply survive.
When we realize, however, that the God
we serve sent His son into this world to aid us in navigating life’s roads, we
can find new patience, new direction, new hope and new assurance. We can travel life’s roads and face life’s
obstacles and roadblocks with awareness that all of us are like “roads under
construction” and that when we let God lead us, God will remove the barriers,
repair the rough places and bring us restoration, comfort, safety and security
in God’s time.
Life’s rough and unpredictable roads may
not always be easy to travel, but when we rely on the God who made us to lead
us and restore us, we’ll find new hope, new wholeness and new awareness of why
those who had to navigate life’s roads through obstacles of slavery and
segregation trusted in the Lord to lead them and said, “He may not come when
you want Him, but He’s right on time!”
Get Ready for Sunday, and have a great
day in your house of worship!
*The Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Darby
is the Presiding Elder of the Beaufort District of the South Carolina Annual
Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church
10. ANNOUNCEMENT ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL OF LANE COLLEGE PRESIDENT WESLEY
C. MCCLURE:
The funeral service / homegoing
celebration for President Wesley Cornelius McClure of Lane College will be
Saturday, December 14, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at the New St. Luke Missionary
Baptist Church, 1670 North Royal Street, Jackson, Tennessee (telephone
731-423-2228; Rev. Dennis E. Blalock, Pastor).
President McClure passed Friday evening,
December 6, 2013, at the Jackson Madison County Hospital.
The Bledsoe Funeral Home of Jackson is
being used for the services. Bledsoe
Funeral Home is located at 256 Middleton Street, Jackson, Tennessee 38301.
The telephone number is 731-427-1521, and the funeral home’s fax is
731-427-1522.
Persons wishing to address the family
should write Mrs. Mary Bradley McClure, 450 Shadow Ridge Drive, Jackson,
Tennessee 38305.
Bishops, General Officers, and other
Connectional officials planning to attend the service should contact the office
of Bishop Lawrence Reddick, 901-345-4114, no later than 3 P.M. on Wednesday,
December 11th.
College Presidents, UNCF and NAFEO
Officials, and all present and former Lane College Trustees planning to attend
the service should contact the Office of the President, 731-426-7523.
From Bishop Lawrence Reddick
Chair, Lane College Board of Trustees
11. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
On Thursday, December 5, 2013, a
wonderful and loving husband, John William Evans transitioned from labor to
reward. He was the husband of Rev. Dr. Constance C. Wheeler-Evans, Pastor of
St. Paul AME Church, Washington DC. John
was a retired Lt. Colonel in the Air Force and a member of Kappa Alpha PSI
Fraternity, Inc. He also taught Sunday School for many years at Ebenezer AME
Church, Ft. Washington, MD.
We have made the following home-going
celebration arrangements:
Friday, December 13, 2013
Viewing-10:00 a.m.
Homegoing Celebration-11:00 a.m.
Location:
Ebenezer AME Church
7707 Allentown Road
Fort Washington, MD 20744
Eulogist: Bishop James L. Davis,
Presiding Prelate, 9th Episcopal District
Repast following the homegoing
celebration in the church fellowship hall. Internment to follow at a later
date/time.
Cards and condolences can be sent to:
The Rev. Dr. Constance C. Wheeler-Evans,
Pastor
St. Paul AME Church
1333 Emerson Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20011
Church telephone: 202-882-7088
Pastor's home number: 301-249-2901
Emails can be sent to revccw@aol.com
12. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Brother Frank Taylor transitioned from
this life on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the home of his niece the Reverend
Sherry Green, the Pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Town Branch Road-PO Box 294
Manchester, Ky. 40962 sherrygreen1955@yahoo.com.
Services will be held at The House Of
God S.P. Rawlings Conference & Multipurpose Center, 866 Georgetown Street,
Lexington, KY. Thursday December 12, 2013. The visitation is at 11:00 a.m.-1:00
p.m. and the service will follow.
Condolences will be received by the
family by email, mail or telephone:
The Rev. Sherry Green
406 Woodridge Drive
Lancaster, Ky. 40444
Telephone: 859-621-3728
Services are entrusted to:
Fender Funeral Directors
1593 Russell Cave Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40505
Telephone: 859-293-0157
13. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
We regret to inform you of the passing
of the Reverend Eldred Lee Miller from the West Tennessee Conference, 13th
Episcopal District, the spouse of the Reverend Sherry Miller, an associate
minister of Quinn Chapel AME Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Reverend Eldred Lee Miller departed
this life on December 6, 2013 at the Veteran Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
with his wife the Rev. Sherry and daughter Erica at his side. The Rev. Miller was a lifelong member of St.
James AME Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
He served his country in the U.S. Army and worked for the Memphis
Housing Authority for many years. He
leaves to mourn his passing in addition to his wife and daughter Erica, a son, Aaron A. Jones of Memphis, Tennessee; 2 grandsons, Aaron and Keylon; and a
granddaughter, Akya; six brothers, Floyd, Charles, Rodger, Larry, Greg, and
Arthur Miller all of Memphis; two Sisters, Jackie Douglas and Mary J. Miller of
Memphis. All siblings are members of St. James AME Church in Memphis,
Tennessee. He leaves his Mother-in-Law Mrs.
Mae Frances Jones of Memphis, a host of nieces and nephews and friends who will
truly miss him.
Services for the Rev. Eldred Lee Miller
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Funeral: 12 Noon
Viewing of remain from 11 a.m. -12 Noon
St. James AME Church
600 North 4th Street
Memphis, Tennessee 38107
The Reverend Michael Broadnax, Pastor
Services are entrusted to:
MJ Edwards Funeral Home
1165 Airways Blvd
Memphis, Tennessee 38114
Telephone: (901) 327-9360
Fax: (901) 327-6773
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to:
The Reverend Sherry Ann Miller
PO Box 786
Louisville, KY 40201
Telephone: 502-356-9162
Email: addnomore_54@yahoo.com
14. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
With deep regret we announce the
transition to eternal life of Brother Henry Darryl Harris, the husband of the
Reverend Tammy Harris, pastor of Mount Calvary AME Church in Detroit, Michigan
and Brother-in-love of the Rev. Jeffrey Baker, pastor of St. Paul AME Church,
Detroit.
The funeral service for Brother Henry
Darryl Harris has been planned for Saturday, December 14, beginning at 12:00
p.m. at St. Luke AME Church, 363 Labelle Street, Highland Park, Michigan,
Reverend Robert Blake, pastor. The
family hour will begin at 11:00 a.m.
Telephone: (313) 868-7707.
Viewing of the body will be at the James
H. Cole Funeral Home, 16100 Schaefer Highway, Detroit, Michigan on Friday,
December 13th from 9 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. The family will be present between the hours of
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Telephone: (313) 835-3997 Fax: (313) 835-0512.
Condolences may be sent to Reverend
Tammy Harris & Family at 24930 Glenbrooke Drive, Southfield, Michigan,
48033.
Home telephone (248) 351-9125; cell
phone (313) 598-5187; and email address tanddharris@comcast.net.
15. CLERGY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICES AND CONGRATULATORY
ANNOUNCEMENTS PROVIDED BY:
Ora L. Easley, Administrator
AMEC Clergy Family Information Center
Email: Amespouses1@bellsouth.net
Web page: http://www.amecfic.org/
Phone: (615) 837-9736 (H)
Phone: (615) 833-6936 (O)
Cell: (615) 403-7751
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMEC_CFIC
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-AME-Church-Clergy-Family-Information-Center/167202414220
16. CONDOLENCES TO THE BEREAVED FROM THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER:
The Chair of the Commission on Publications, the Right Reverend
T. Larry Kirkland; 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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