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President of FVSU to speak Sunday at St. James AME (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:30:04 +0000

Larry Rivers, Ph.D., president of Fort Valley State University, will speak at the 11 a.m. service Sunday at St. James AME Church, 1002 Sixth Ave.

Oak Street AME Zion Church celebrates 167th anniversary

harper — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:11:23 +0000

PETERSBURG — The Oak Street AME Zion Church, 25 W. Wythe St., will celebrate its 167th anniversary on Sunday. The guest speaker at the 4 p.m. service will be the Rev. Dr. Robert Diggs and the congregation of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. A brief history of the church can be found on the kiosk located in Old Towne Petersburg on Old Street. The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Branch Griffin has been the pastor of this great church for the past four years.

According to history, a special act of the quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842 declared that the Union Street Methodist Episcopal Church edifice be given to the “colored Methodist congregation.” The white membership then moved into the new edifice, the Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church. This Act and this date of 1842 serve as the official beginnings of the body, in its separate edifice, that later became Oak Street AME Zion Church.

Pastor Apologizes to Church for misuse of Credit Cards

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:32:42 +0000

The pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles apologized to his congregants Sunday for any embarrassment caused by disclosures that he had used church credit cards for sizable personal expenses and had failed to pay federal taxes for several years.

Pastor John J. Hunter, 51, used church credit cards to pay for at least $122,000 in personal expenses, including family vacations, clothes, jewelry, bikes and auto supplies, The Times reported Sunday. He and church finance officials said he had signed an agreement to repay the money and instituted stricter accounting policies, such as spending guidelines and more frequent audits, to guard against future problems.

“I stand not as a perfect servant but one who tries to be a faithful servant,” Hunter said, drawing scattered applause and murmurs of approval from congregants at the 10 a.m. service. “Our church is in sound financial condition. We are solid, perhaps more so than we have ever been. Our future is bright.”