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by Apostle Janice L Williams
WE ARE INSTRUCTED IN
1 PETER 2:17 NKJV, TO:
17/ "Honor all people. Love the brotherhood [brothers & sisters in Christ]. Fear God. Honor the king [or President]."
PROVERBS 24:21 KJV
21/ MY SON FEAR {RESPECT} THOU THE LORD AND THE King {President} CURSE NOT THE King {President} NO NOT IN THY THOUGHT;
UNDER HIS PRESIDENCY, SLAVERY IN THE US WAS ABOLISHED.
Born over 200 years ago in 1809, your legacy remains alive & vibrant today!!!
Valentine's Day, February 14th, is a traditional day in the USA, for sending a card or gift, to some one you love.
According to some traditions, it is named for a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Cladius II. The priest was arrested and imprisioned for marrying Christian couples and otherwise aiding
Christians who were at that time being persecuted by Claudius in Rome. Helping Christians at that time was considered a crime.We extend Valentine's Day Greetings to all on Saturday, February 14th, 2015
THERE'S SO MUCH MORE COMING YOUR WAY THAT WILL BE ADDED TO THIS PAGE JUST FOR YOU. BE SURE TO CHECK BACK OFTEN TO GET ALL OF THE UPDATES.
CONTINUING
USA PRESIDENTS DAY OBSERVANCE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 2015
PICTURED ABOVE, AND CENTERED IN PICTURE BELOW, IS OUR CURRENT 44TH USA PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA.
HOW MANY USA PRESIDENTS CAN YOU NAME?
^John F Kennedy^ ^Abraham Lincoln^ ^George Washington^
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. Washington's Birthday, also known as Presidents' Day, is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of February. The day honors presidents of the United States including George Washington, the USA's first president.
ASH WEDNESDAY OBSERVANCE, & LENT BEGINS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 2015
SEE WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #121 "ABOUT ASH WEDNESDAY & LENT"
THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN THE USA, TODAY WE GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO PATRICIA BATH & Some of the many African American Astronauts.
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942 in the Harlem section of New York City) is an American ophathalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, or been elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center (an honor bestowed on her after her retirement). Before Bath, no black person had served as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University and no black woman had ever served on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. Bath is the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose. Her Laserphaco Probe is used to treat cataracts. The holder of four patents, she also founded the company of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C..
Bath interned at Harlem Hospital Center. During this period, from 1968 to 1970, Bath became aware that the practice of eye care was uneven among racial minorities and poor populations, with much higher incidence of blindness among her black and poor patients. She determined that, as a physician, she would help address this issue. She persuaded her professors from Columbia to operate on blind patients at Harlem Hospital Center, which had not previously offered eye surgery, at no cost. Bath pioneered the worldwide discipline of "community ophthalmology", a volunteer-based outreach to bring necessary eye care to underserved populations.
^Above & below reference @ wikipedia free encyclopedia^
The first African-American woman in space, Dr. Mae C. Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama but considers Chicago, Illinois her hometown. She received a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering (and completed the requirements for a Bachelor in African and Afro-American studies) at Stanford University in 1977. Dr. Jemison also received a Doctorate degree in medicine from Cornell University in 1981. After medical school she did post graduate medical training at the Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center. As an area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa, she managed the health care delivery system for U.S. Peace Corps and U.S. Embassy personnel. Jemison's background includes work in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and reproductive biology. She also developed and participated in research projects on the Hepatitis B vaccine and rabies.
Jemison was a General Practitioner and attending graduate Engineering classes in Los Angeles when she was named an astronaut candidate in 1987. She flew her first flight as a science mission specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in September 1992. She was co-investigator for the Bone Cell Research Experiment on that mission. In completing her first space flight, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes and 23 seconds in space. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993. In 1994, she founded and began a term as chair of The Earth We Share (TEWS), an annual international science camp where students, aged 12 to 16, work together to solve current global dilemmas. From 1995-2002 she was a professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. She is currently director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in developing countries. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame and several corporate boards of directors on the Texas Governor's State Council for Science and Biotechnology Development. Dr. Jemison published her memoirs, "Find Where the Wind Goes-Moments from My Life", in 2001. She currently resides in Houston, Texas.
Official portrait of astronaut Guion S. Bluford, born November 22, 1942. Bluford, a member of Astronaut Class 8 and the United States Air Force, poses in his launch and entry suit holding a launch and entry helmet with the United States flag as a backdrop. He was the first African American in space, August 30, 1983.
Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr (born June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas) is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.
With more African American History & history making,
CHRISTIAN MEN OF GOD
Lived on Earth: May 2nd, 1870 to September 28th, 1922
Spouse, Jenny Evans Moore, married from 1908 to 1922 when he went home to Heaven.
William J. Seymour was an African American Minister of the Gospel {Good News} of our Lord & Savior JESUS CHRIST, and an initiator of the Pentecostal Religious Movement.
He was born the son of former slaves in Centerville, Louisiana. As a grown man in 1905, he became a student at a newly formed bible school founded by Charles Parham in Houston, Texas. It was here that he learned the major tenets of the Holiness Movement. He developed a belief in glossolalia("speaking in tongues") as a confirmation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit when he witnessed it from one of his followers. Itinerant, he moved to Los Angeles to minister. As a consequence of his newfound Pentecostal doctrine he was removed from the parish where he had been appointed. Looking for a place to continue his work, he found the Apostolic Faith Mission in a run-down building in downtown Los Angeles on Azusa Street.
From his base on Azusa Street he began to preach his doctrinal beliefs. Seymour not only rejected the existing racial barriers in favor of "unity in Christ", he also rejected the then almost-universal barriers to women in any form of church leadership. This revival meeting extended from 1906 until 1909, and became known as the Azusa Street Revival. It became the subject of intense investigation by more mainstream Protestants. Some left feeling that Seymour's views were heresy, while others accepted his teachings and returned to their own congregations to expound them. The resulting movement became widely known as "Pentecostalism", likening it to the manifestations of the Holy Spirit recorded as occurring in the Bible in the first two chapters of The Acts of the Apostles, as occurring from the day of the Feast of Pentecost onwards. It is believed, Charles Harrison Mason, founder of the Church of God in Christ, received the Holy Spirit at the revival.
Most of the current charismatic groups can claim some lineage to the Azusa Street Revival and Seymour. While the movement was largely to fracture along racial lines within a decade, the splits were in some ways perhaps less deep than the vast divide that seems often to separate many white religious denominations from their black counterparts. Probably the deepest split in the Pentecostal movement today is not racial, but rather between Trinitarian and Oneness theologies.
While there had been similar religious movements in the past (the Cane Ridge, Kentucky, religious movement a century before in the Second Great Awakening, being one such example), the current worldwide Pentecostal and charismatic movements are generally agreed to have been in part outgrowths of Seymour's ministry and the Azusa Street Revival.
Charles Harrison "C.H." Mason (September 8, 1866 - November 17, 1961) was an African American Pentecostal-Holiness and denominational leader. He was the founder, Chief Apostle and first Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ {COGIC}, the largest Pentecostal Church in the United States.
Bishop Mason was born the son of former slaves Jerry and Eliza Mason in Shelby County, Tennessee. He lived with his family in an unincorporated area near Barlett. Mason worked with his family sharecropping and he did not receive an early formal education. As a child, Mason was greatly influenced by the religion of his parents. In 1879, when he was twelve, Mason joined the African-American Missionary Baptist Church; he was later baptized by his older brother, Rev. I. S. Nelson. In 1893, he began his ministerial career by accepting a local license from the Mount Gale Missionary Baptist Church in Preston, Arkansas. On November 1, 1893 Mason entered the Arkansas Baptist College, but withdrew after three months because of his dissatisfaction with their curriculum and methodology. At this period he became enamored with the autobiography of Amanda Berry Smith, an African-American Methodist evangelist. Smith had become a convert of the new wave of Holiness that was spreading during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Those who had accepted the Holiness message testified of being "sanctified" and cleansed from sin. Mason claimed sanctification and began preaching the doctrine of Holiness and Sanctification in the local baptist churches. In 1895, Mason also became acquainted with Charles Price Jones, a popular Baptist preacher from Mississippi who shared his enthusiasm for holiness teachings, as well as J. E. Jeter from Little Rock, AR, and W. S. Pleasant from Hazelhurst, MS. These men spread the doctrine of Holiness and Sanctification throughout the African-American Baptist churches in Mississippi, Arkansas, and western Tennessee. In June 1896, these men conducted a revival, preaching the message of Sanctification and Holiness that eventually led to the expulsion for the local baptist association. In 1897, Mason and Jones, being expelled from the local Baptist Association for preaching Holiness, formed a new fellowship of churches named simply "Church of God." Mason suggested the name "the Church of God in Christ" (COGIC), a name he said came to him during a vision in Little Rock Arkansas, to distinguish the church from a number of "Church of God" groups that were forming at the time. In March 1907, Mason was sent by the church to Los Angeles to investigate the revival being led by Elder William J. Seymour. While at the revival he experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues.
God Glorified Legacy
At the time of Bishop Mason's death in 1961 COGIC had spread to every state in the Union and to many foreign countries with a membership of more than 400,000 and more than 4000 churches. The growth of COGIC at the time of Bishop Mason's death gives credence to his untiring efforts to teach and preach the Pentecostal-Holiness message and his exceptional leadership in building a comprehensive organization. After Bishop Mason's death in 1961, the church grew exponentially. Today, it is the largest Pentecostal Church in the United States with an estimated membership of more than 5 million members and 12,000 churches. The church can be found in every state in the United States and more than 60 countries around the world. Its international membership is estimated to be between 1 and 3 million members and more than 3,000 churches. Its worldwide membership is estimated to be between 6 to 8 million members. This is astounding due to the fact that COGIC began in 1907 with ten congregations in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. The current leader and presiding bishop is Bishop Charles Blake of Los Angeles, CA. The C. H. Mason Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA, was founded in 1970 in his honor and continues to serve as the denomination's premier institution for training ministers and ministry leaders awarding graduate degrees as part of the Interdemoninational Theological Center (ITC). The C.H. Mason System of Bible Colleges can be found through the country in various locations awarding certificates and associate level degrees in theology and ministry. Being an African American and the son of former slaves during a time of heightened racism and legal segregation limited his exposure and coverage. Many historians compare the growth of COGIC at the time of his death with the growth of Methodism at the time of Charles Wesley's death that numbered 100,000 compared to COGIC's 400,000. Nonetheless, millions of Pentecostal believers and those of other reformations claim Mason's influence and teachings. He is now beginning to receive recognition of his invaluable contributions to the rise and spread of Pentecostalism and Christendom.
^The Rev. Leon Sullivan, first Black man to become director of General Motors, talks to a group of preschool children who use his church as their kindergarten.
Leon Howard Sullivan
was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist.
Reference above: Wikipedia Encyclopedia
“Build Brother Build” is the title of Reverend Leon H. Sullivan’s book detailing the birth and development of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC). It is also the philosophy by which he governed his life.
Leon H. Sullivan became a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from West Virginia State College and the Columbia University Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He eventually moved to Philadelphia, PA to become pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in 1950. From the pulpit, he could clearly see the needs of his community. Thousands were unemployed and yet thousands of jobs were vacant. Rev. Sullivan believed that jobs were the key to the economic development and true empowerment of African Americans rather than a dependence upon public assistance. Sullivan organized 400 other ministers and launched a “selective patronage” campaign whose main purpose was to boycott the Philadelphia-based companies that did not practice equal opportunity in employment. The boycott opened up more than 4,400 jobs to African Americans, yet many still needed to be trained and prepared for those jobs. In order to insure that those individuals who got a job possessed the skills to keep the job, Rev. Sullivan founded the very first OIC training center in 1964 in an abandoned jailhouse in North Philadelphia. The dilapidated building was renovated using donations from people in the community and an anonymous grant. The OIC provided job and life skills training and matched its graduates with the employment needs of Philadelphia businesses. The undertaking was a huge success, and the programs were quickly replicated in cities across the United States providing comprehensive employment training and placement for disadvantaged, unemployed and unskilled Americans of all races. In 1969, OIC International was created to provide employment-training services on a global scale based on the OIC philosophy of “self-help”. In 1970, Rev. Sullivan established OIC of America, Inc. to serve as the national headquarters to OIC Affiliates and the technical assistance center for communities replicating the OIC model. {Reference above - oicofamerica.org}
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In addition to holding honorary doctorate degrees from over 50 colleges and universities, Reverend Sullivan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush, honoring him for his “voice of reason for over forty years” and a lifetime of work in helping the economically and socially disadvantaged people in the world. Reverend Sullivan went on to launch an international campaign to reform apartheid in South Africa, developing the Sullivan Principles, a code of conduct for human rights and equal opportunity for companies operating in South Africa. In the late 1990s, Reverend Sullivan brought world and business leaders together to expand the successful Sullivan Principles into the Global Sullivan Principles of Social Responsibility. The aim of the Global Sullivan Principles was to improve human rights, social justice and economic fairness in every country, throughout the world. A man of courage and a servant of the people, Leon H. Sullivan devoted his life to the well being of others. {above reference: courtesy of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation}
WE GIVE HONOR TO ALL MENTIONED & THOSE NOT MENTIONED, WHO HAVE TOUCHED, BLESSED AND ENCOURAGED THE LIVES OF OTHERS FOR THE BETTER. WE PRAISE & THANK GOD IN JESUS NAME FOR YOU!
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH TO ALL!!!
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