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He started the healing ministry in St. Louis and continued to travel throughout the United States. Jack Moore heard Branham preach in Shreveport in 1948 and asked him to minister in several churches. He introduced him to Gordon Lindsay who promoted the healing meetings. The Voice of Healing magazine was started to report the meetings but Branham decided to leave the group. The magazine continued by promoting other healing evangelists. By 1950 Branham’s ministry started to experiencing financial problems because the recordkeeping was not accurate. He lived simply without extravagance but didn’t have good

Dr. Charles Stanley was born in Dry Fork, Virginia on September 25, 1932. Charley and Rebecca Stanley became the parents of a baby boy. Nine months after his birth, his father died at the age of 29 leaving his mother to raise their only child. Stanley was married to Anna Stanley and had a son name Andy. After forty years of marriage the couple was divorced. In spite his difficulties and circumstances in life. Stanley dedicated his life to God’s word. At an early age, Stanley made a commitment to serve God and to preach his word.

Three years later he accepted his call to preach God’s word and received ordination as an Elder in 1967 from the late Bishop A. B. McEwen Sr. Since his ordination, Elder Lipford has served the church in various capacities. He has served as District YPWW President, State Chairman of Youth Department, and District Superintendent. He was currently serving as pastor of the Lakeview Community Temple Church of God in Christ. He was the founder and leader of the Concern Pastor’s of Whitehaven. He was an Executive Board member of the African American Pastor’s Consortium, and Administrative Assistant to the late Bishop Samuel L. Lowe and present Bishop Jerry Taylor of Tennessee Fifth Jurisdiction Church of God in Christ. On the national level he served as Marshall of the General Assembly, a regional Chairman of the Pastor’s and Elder’s Council and a member of the Judiciary Board of the Pastor’s and Elder’s Council. During the 110th National Holy Church of God in Christ Convocation in St. Louis, MO, Elder Jesse James Lipford was consecrated to Auxiliary

government took away his permit to perform marriages because he was black and Pentecostal. Afterwards or give a date, he appealed this decision to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and got his permit back by winning the case (Hampton 15). This was a very important example for African Americans because Bishop Williams showed every black American not to be scared, how to stand up for their rights. Moreover, Bishop Williams worked so ww hard to provide housing for people with low incomes. The Bible Way Church’s goal was to create affordable housing without seeking a profit. Therefore, they were able to provide over 400 units of housing for people earning as little as 30 percent of the area’s median income (TOO CLOSE in WORDING TO SOURCE(Bible Way Washington). Besides these accomplishments, Smallwood Williams was also very well known for founding the Bible Way of Church and being the General Secretary of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith (COOLJC)dates? Did this come before the SC case above?). He was a civil rights advocate who used his connections, network and power to fight for justice, lobbying with politicians at the time for equality. His ultimate goal was not just achieving voting rights for blacks or the right to equal public accommodations, but he also wanted African Americans to be equal in the eyes of white Americans (Taylor

In 1880, Turner rode a wave of populist popularity to become the first southern bishop elected in the AME Church at the General Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. As Bishop, Turner dedicated himself to building a denomination. The AME Church had begun to lose ground to the fast-growing Baptist denomination, which allowed greater freedom of expression during service. Turner wrote a hymnal which included adaptations of many "slave ditties," as Bishop Payne called them. He worked to give southern congregations a greater voice among the AME hierarchy, which, dominated as it was by Northerners, tended to look down on their southern brethren. And he gave women a greater role in the denomination. He even ordained a woman as deacon, but that move was condemned so loudly that he rescinded it and never spoke about it again - the one subject on which he was silenced. He would also prove to be the most controversial. He provoked white racists in print, and advocated a wholesale move of blacks back to Africa "to achieve our dignity and manhood." He ordained a woman, Sarah Ann Hughes, as a deacon in the church. During his tenure, he presided over the 8th, 5th, 1st, 12th, 6th and 7th Districts.

In his book Share Jesus Without Fear, William Fay lays out an easy and attainable way for one to reach people for Christ. A former mobster, and prostitution house owner, Fay says that if “God can take somebody like me and change him, he can take anybody in your life and change him as well.”1 In an easy to understand, comprehensive way, Fay shows how to overcome your fears and witness to those who are lost. By breaking down the six most common excuses one uses not

He was the second of seven Children. He accepted Christ at the age of eleven (11) and joined the New Tabernacle Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Carter of Yazoo City, Mississippi. He was educated in Yazoo City, Mississippi school system. He served in the U.S. Army in 1951 and served during the Korean War. He was a Corporal, he earned a silver star and was honorably discharged in 1953. He moved to Detroit Michigan where he was employed at Ford Motor Co. and Verno’s Bottling Company. In 1998 he joined Derrick Memorial Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Samuel Thornton, of Detroit Michigan. He was a member of the male chorus. He was a very outgoing and caring person, and most of his friends knew him as

Born on March 29, 1962, in Linden, Alabama, just 90 miles outside of Montgomery, Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was the tenth of twelfth offspring born to William and Louivery Abernathy. His family was more fortunate than most due to the fact they owned a 500 acre farm, which provided a certain measure of independence. Abernathy exhibited evidence of inheriting his father’s spiritual and leadership skills by joining the church at the age of 7 and serving in the army during World War II at the age of 18, where he quickly earned the rank of sergeant. After serving in the war, Abernathy attended Alabama state college, where his political awareness began to flourish. He was elected as president of his student council and led protests to secure suitable student living conditions and quality food in the dormitories. He then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1950 and also achieved religious training by obtaining a masters degree in sociology from Atlanta University. Remaining committed to church and education, Abernathy became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where he met his wife Juanita Odessa Jones and he became Dean of Men at Alabama State University at the young age of 26.

Andrew Foster was determined to get an education. When his family moved to Chicago, he went to high school there and graduated in 1951. Throughout high school, Foster went to Sunday School at his church every Sunday. One Sunday a missionary from Jamaica came to his church and talked about his work in Africa. Foster then realized he wanted to do the same. After graduating, Foster wrote to Gallaudet and they accepted him with a full scholarship. Foster then became the first African-American to be accepted into Gallaudet. Four years into the future, in 1954, Foster would become the first African-American to graduate from Gallaudet University with a degree in Bachelor Arts. From here, Foster’s career as a missionary was just getting started.

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By the time Lewis got to college, he realized his callings of becoming a preacher. He became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and even gained recognition for his sermon in church. Lewis’s experience in

During the last of the class of the Pastoral Ministry, we talked about the book: ‘’Death Comes for the Archbishop.” The book was written by Willa Cather from Virginia. The story in his book can give an example of the mission to which it’s all of us as we are seminarians, priests and even all Christian are called. Especially for me that where I am in the Missionary Seminary Redemptoris Mater in Miami. Actually, Willa Cather describes a very interesting novel that gives us to consider about it. This book it’s reminds of the last summer when I was on the mission through one week. I lived without any phones, money but God constantly provided for us everything.

The new Christian Counsellor: A fresh Biblical and Transformational Approach is a book that aims to teach people and empower them to take possession of their souls in the contemporary life of a multi-faceted approach design. The authors are seasoned Christian counsellors who have a vast experience in dealing with people’s psycho-spiritual issues from a Christian point of view (Hawkins & Clinton, 2015 p.6). Through their noble ideas, the professors seek to guide their reads through the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives, under the influence of God’s word and in a manner that is supportive of the accountability ideas of the entire community.

The church is in need of major renovation when it comes to making disciples. The concept of making disciples to follow the Lord Jesus Christ seems completely foreign to the church today. In order to achieve the desired goal of making disciples for Christ, training others to go out and proclaim gospel, and helping others to train people to disciple one another, one needs to go back to foundation of the Word of God. It is in God’s Word where multiple examples are found of how to make disciples to follow Jesus Christ. It is my desire to see more people in the church have a passion for discipleship. Therefore, this paper will examine in detail how to make disciples in a ministry context. This will be accomplished by examining the 5 V’s of discipleship—vision, values, views, vehicles, and verifiers. It is my purpose to examine each area in order to have a detailed plan of discipleship that will be used in my own ministry context to make disciples for Christ. I hope that this plan can and will be used to train others in the church to make disciples, and disciple one another, for the glory of God.

A pattern of reciprocity is a partnership that includes mutually reinforcing activities that allow each partner to teach and learn from one another that avoids dependency and paternalism. Wesley interacts with the work of Philip Thomas and his typology of communication moving from one-direction relationships to transformative relationships. However, Wesley concludes with Yoshikawa’s dialogical relationship model that describes a synthesis of the donor and recipient into something greater than the sum of its parts. This is the pinnacle of congregational partnerships where reciprocity becomes the very nature of the relationship and challenges the approaches traditionally taken by denominations and mission