Reflection On The Shiloh Baptist Church

I chose to do my religious ethnographic study at my home church, Tabernacle Baptist Church in Youngstown, Ohio on Sunday, May 8, 2016. Tabernacle is an 112-year-old historic Black Baptist church located on the lower Northside of Youngstown surrounded by a mixed income housing development, homeless shelter, Youngstown State University, and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. I would say the average age of a Tabernacle member is 55 years old. About 70% of the members at this church are “middle-class” families. Until about five years ago, its membership was almost exclusively middle class. There has seen an influx of membership in working class individuals and students since the arrival of Tabernacle’s young, vibrant pastor, Rev. Christopher McKee, Jr., three years ago. The church is attentive to the needs of this demographic but remains true to its historic Black Baptist church roots. The church previously struggled with this conundrum until it came to the reality that an exclusivist mindset around worship is detrimental to the body of Christ when it did not have a pastor for over three years. The church was dying because no one was welcome to it and it did not have a leader. Though it was difficult, this reassessment was beneficial in making Tabernacle more relevant and welcoming to the community it is blessed to serve.

In addition, going to the baptist church made me realize that no matter what your culture is, humans all want the same things. People want a sense of meaning and purpose, and to feel inspired, hopeful, unconditionally loved, accepted, and uplifted. People want to have an understanding of who they are, and what that entails. When people are feeling scared and insecure about the present and future, they demand explanations for the unknown, or the difficult elements of their life. Furthermore, people need order, structure, and security in their lives by being told what they should think/believe, how they should behave. People also seek a sense of belonging and community. Overall,it doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish, Christian, Caucasian, or African American, at the end of the day, humans generally all want the same thing, but just have different ways of showing it or expressing it.

The Making of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message. A. J. Smith Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008.

I attend Gospel Light Freewill Independent Baptist Church in Thomasville, NC. It’s a relatively small church, with about 50-70 people on a Sunday morning. My grandmother, my aunt, and my uncle attend this church as well. I consider myself to be a child of God and a true “born again” Christian. Being “born again” means that one has accepted God into their heart and has been changed on the inside. I accepted him into my heart on October 9th, 2012. Growing up strictly in an independent Baptist church, I didn’t know that other churches were different, at least not until I visited my boyfriend’s church which is Southern Baptist. My pastor preaches heavily on hell-fire and brimstone. He walks up and down the altar, yelling and jumping. There are

or those who know me, they know that nearly every Sunday morning I’ll be sitting next to my wife, on the front row of Topeka Baptist Church. To be clear though, I’m not implying that I’m super-spiritual, nor am I trying to impress anyone by my seating preference. Truth be told, I’m an avid people-watcher and easily allured by my surroundings, so sitting on the front row gives me the best opportunity to pay attention since the only person I can see is the pastor. I can’t tell you the day, month, or even the year when we started attending our church, nor can I tell you exactly how long we’ve sat on that front row now. However, I do know that I’ve listened to the pastor faithfully deliver sermon after sermon, Sunday after Sunday. Although I

What area has the African American Church given it highest priority and why? (Chapter 9)

The Mt. The Peace Missionary Baptist Association of Western NC was established around the year 1890. The earliest recorded history is derived from the 44th annual session’s minutes.  The Association was held at the Gold Hill Baptist Church, Lowesville, NC on October 16-19, 1912.

On April 4, Philadelphia Liberty Community Church(P) held it's regular Monday bible study. Several people were invited but finally only Esau attended.

John B. Vason, who was a local barber and a philanthropist, led a group of Blacks who met at Pittsburg’s African Church on January 1832.They. The purpose for their motives and plans was for blacks to be educated because it was a gateway to be equality. They state not allowing blacks to be educated causes “ the debase the mind, and subject it votaries to the lowest vice”(150). In addition, not being educated causes blacks to be degraded and put in bondage in the United States. They state that blacks are equally intellectual and “susceptible to improvement” as the white man. Furthermore, the state those blacks should have the right to purchase “books and periodicals”, they should have the right to raise money, to purchase ground, and a suitable

Shiloh United Methodist Church Message Map February 14, 2016 Pastor Dave Hood HEARTS In Pieces Psalm 51 Guard your heart Proverbs 4:23 Types of Broken Hearts Wounded heart Under-developed heart Hardened heart

The preschool that I observed is the Twelfth Baptist Church. The fine motor activities that they have is indoor, the outdoor activities is a gross motor, it is more physically and general activities. Fine motor is the use of the small muscles of the hand and the ability to pick, grasp, release, and write with pencil. In puzzle and manipulative area, I observe the teacher having maximum five students; usually it is less than five about three in the same time. It is in the puzzle and manipulative area which have a lot of recourses like different size of puzzle with different back shape to be easy for the children in clean up to put every puzzle back, legos, blocks, different cards for many games, cloth pins, and different size of marbles and

Shiloh Outreach Center, INC., located in the Shiloh Education Center building, on the campus of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1118 West Beaver St., Jacksonville, Florida 32204, is the vision and compassion of Pastor H.B. Charles. It is a sanctuary for all in need of refuge in times of trial and tribulations. He has engaged it under the corporate governance of a Board of Trustee, and the Executive Directorship of Elder Reginald Bryant.

I was honored to find out that Mount Calvary is the oldest established African American church in the state of Arizona. Overall, I felt that I benefited greatly from attending an African American Baptist Church. I am now more knowledgeable about my race’s religious culture and have fulfilled my want to experience a Baptist church. I am happy that I completed the extra credit. I might start making a habit of attending an African American Baptist Church more often in the year to mix up my experiences in

The Black church I picked was King Words, which is a International Church located at 3323 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60623. I started off by attending Bible study which is recommend for Sunday service. Pastor Kay immediately greeted me with a warm welcome. I felt like I was already a member of the church. This church was different from the other Black churches across the Chicago area because this church did not have ushers to direct you to your seat. Individuals were free to sit anywhere, so I choose to sit behind the choir. The choir sounded great although the songs they were singing I’ve never heard before. The songs were very powerful and encouraged me to sing along. I was surprised to see so many people there because the church so small. After the choir finished their last song, everyone greeted me along with the other new faces at the church.

Atlanta Bethal Community Church(C) Monday, March 7 was touched by the serving heart of a recent Church Attendee. Larry Tharpe, middle age African American male, expressed a serving heart by asking Minster Anderson if he could help with any church works, including evangelism.