“In times like these, when our national leadership lacks a moral compass, hatred is on the rise and violence is rampant, we need a revival,” said the Rev. Traci D. Blackmon, senior pastor of Christ the King United Church of Christ and the executive minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ.
To that end, highly regarded clergy from parts south and east will speak on “Reviving Justice,” Tuesday, September 11 through Thursday, September 13 at Christ the King United Church of Christ, located at 11370 Old Halls Ferry Road in Florissant. Each night of revival begins at 7 p.m.
For the first night of revival on September 11, the Rev. Robert C. Scott is the messenger. Scott is the senior pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, he served as the longtime pastor at Central Baptist Church in St. Louis. Blackmon said of Scott that he “helped establish that church as a prophetic manifestation of the Gospel in a neighborhood where the radical love of Jesus was desperately needed, not only on Sundays, but through the week.”
On September 12, the Rev. Leslie D. Callahan, pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will bring the revival message. Callahan is the first woman pastor at St. Paul’s and “her teaching is nationally regarded as some of the best the church has to offer,” Rev. Blackmon said.
The third and final night of revival is Thursday, September 13, when Christ the King, along with Southern Union Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, will bring in the Rev. Gina M. Stewart, senior pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Stewart is also her church’s first woman pastor, and she also pastors the youth of her church. “Now having expanded to two locations, Dr. Stewart leads her congregation in an expended understanding of the liberating God and is an internationally sought-after preacher,” Blackmon said.
“I believe these prophetic voices are ones that will strengthen our resolve and remind us of where our hope remains,” Rev. Blackmon said.
For more information, call 314-741-6808 or visit www.ctk-ucc.org.
Black Church to assemble for ‘Call to Conscience’
Black denominational and faith leaders have scheduled a “Call to Conscience – Day of Action” for September 5-6 in Washington, D.C.
Events will start with a Strategic Planning Session for bishops, denominational leaders, pastors, and attendees at 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 5 at Reid Temple AME Church, 11400 Glenn Dale Blvd, Glenn Dale, Md.
That afternoon, leaders will meet with congressional leadership, and pastors and laity will visit their congressional members offices, followed with a worship service that evening at Reid Temple AME Church, where Reverend Lee P. Washington is senior pastor and Rev. Matthew Lawrence Watley serves as executive minister and managing minister.
On Thursday, September 6, the group will assemble at 9 a.m. at Lafayette Park, cross from White House, with the “Call to Conscience – Day of Action” to follow at 10 a.m. in the park.
After a 12:30 p.m. lunch at the historic Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C., the leaders will hold a 2 p.m. press conference at Metropolitan AME Church, where the Rt. Rev. James Levert Davis is servant bishop and Mother Arelis Beevers Davis is episcopal supervisor.
“In a word, we are at war. We are at war against racism, when the president pits and divides the nation according to race in order to govern, and declares there are ‘some really good people’ among white supremacists, nationalists and the Ku Klux Klan,” organizers said in a statement.
“We are at war against anti-immigration efforts, which is a disguised effort to set back and deport people of color in order to maintain white privilege and the status quo. We are at war against efforts to pervert the criminal justice system in the name of ‘law and order’ to profile and target blacks, and fill the courts with judges who will turn back gains made during the Civil Rights Movement in the name of ‘Making America Great Again.’ We must fight against, spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Organizers said the event also will also kick off efforts for the mid-term elections. “Our priority will be to register, educate, organize and mobilize our people to vote in November,” organizers said. “If blacks turn out in large numbers, we will determine the outcome in a large number of races.”
For further information please call (770)-220-1770.
