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"From Slavery to Bishopric"
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Headlines courtesy of
abc13.com, KTRK TV, Houston,
Texas
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Senior Pastor John
Joseph Hunter of
First
AME Church, Los Angeles announced this morning that the
Church would be hosting a Memorial Service for Rosa Parks,
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, at 11AM Friday, October
28, 2005.
The world will join Pastor Hunter in remembering this great
American heroine whose daring action in refusing to give up
her seat to a white man in 1955 triggered a 381-day bus
boycott in Montgomery, Alabama and led to a court ruling
desegregating public transportation.
See the CBS2/KCAL9 Web Cast Here
“Rosa Parks is among America’s
greatest heroes. Her simple action that challenged an
establishment of inequality and policies denying Blacks
basic human rights changed America forever. We are grateful
to God for blessing our nation with Rosa Parks and for her
legacy that has shown our country the true meaning of
freedom,” said Pastor Hunter.
"It is a great loss that we have sustained in the passing
of Sister Rosa Parks. She means so much to all of us. Long
before her act of liberation on that day in Montgomery, had
she been an advocate for human rights. She worked diligently
to bring about Justice, in her community of Montgomery,
through the varied agencies of the community and her church.
We thank our God in Christ, for her life. We pray that
others too will take heart by Rosa Parks acts, and believe
that they too are difference makers. Today, we can not tell
the fear, anxiety, that may have resided within her and her
family, on and after those days of December 1st, 1955, in
Montgomery. We know that freedom and justice are not easily
obtained by oppressed people. We praise our God for her
fortitude to stand up against the vicissitudes of racism and
classism.
Within the ranks of African Methodism, we love her, as does
the world who knows of her. We pay homage to her life and
faith, having her name placed this past July 2004, as apart
of the sacred ceremony of the Consecration of Deaconesses
{Mothers of the Church} in African Methodism. The Bishops of
African Methodism, exhort those being consecrated {and
everyone present} to see and embrace examples such as Mary
the mother of Jesus Christ; they also call the name of
Sister Rosa Parks, mother of the Civil Rights Movement in
America, as an example in these days, as a lady of Faith &
Service, for all to reflect upon and embrace.
We call upon all members of the World Community, the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, and all devotees of Freedom and
Justice, to take time now and thank God in Christ for Sister
Rosa Parks. We further ask that Churches all over America,
and especially African Methodist Churches, to set aside a
special time this fifth Sunday of October 2005, and the
first Sunday of November 2005, as times to
Remember~Reflect~Revive, as inspired by the life and works
of Sister Rosa Parks.
We simply say to God in Christ Jesus, "thank you for Sister
Rosa Parks. We praise you for the gift of her life in our
life!!!!!!!"
Grace and Power:
Pastor Leslie R. White
President; A. M. E. Church Ministerial Alliance of Los
Angeles & Vicinity."
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