We believe that victory is only a moment away," said the Rev. H. Beecher Hicks Jr., senior pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, during a March interview on CNN about the congregation's plight. The 145-year-old church is part of Washington's rich legacy, but it finds itself in a precarious predicament. Mr. Hicks - who became senior pastor in 1977 - and his congregation had hoped to move into their new, $30 million edifice in Prince George's County and had planned a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Easter Sunday.
On Sunday, April 22, Hicks was not in his Washington pulpit. In some joyous and wistful way, he was a kid again, remembering the roots of his ministry - and his life at the church his father, the Rev. H. Beecher Hicks Sr., pastored for 31 years - the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church on Columbus' near East Side. It is a day that is filled with memories," said [H. Beecher Hicks Jr.] of his return to the church his father pastored. "My father led through the critical develop ment of this church. "What began in a warehouse made its way to a worship house," Hicks told an applauding audience. "And God is not through with us yet."
[Allyson D. Nelson Abrams] founded and pastored Speak the Truth Baptist Church for seven years before being called to the pastorate at Zion Progress Baptist Church. She was licensed and ordained at her home church, Metropolitan Baptist Church of Washington, DC, by her pastor, the Rev. Dr. [H. Beecher Hicks Jr.] Hicks Jr. Abrams is currently serving with the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit as Assistant Secretary and with the Progressive National Baptist Convention as co-editor of the Baptist Progress magazine/journal.
C. pastor, rabbi part of UTS classes TROTWOOD -- United Theological Seminary, 4501 Denlinger Road, will offer two special learning opportunities this fall. On Sept. 2- 5, UTS is featuring the Rev. H. Beecher Hicks Jr., senior minister of the 6,000-member Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and "Preaching Through Social Crisis," from 9 a.m. to noon each day.
Soul Sanctuary is a unique, spiritual portrait of the African American worship experience. Organized like a church bulletin, [Jason Miccolo Johnson]'s moving and inspirational photographs capture the phases of Sunday worship in Black churches as never before, moving from "Preparation," "Inspiration," and "Dedication" to "Proclamation," "Celebration," and "Benediction." The core of the book is formed of arresting images of congregants' facial expressions and body language, their church vestments or Sunday best, and the dignity of their worship.
...Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr., from the epilogue. Soul Sanctuary: Ima...
Metropolitan Baptist Church was bursting out of its home. From a group of freed slaves in Civil War-era Washington, Metropolitan Baptist had grown into a modern-day megachurch and community service powerhouse. In 2006, construction began on the congregation's dream complex in Largo, Md. - a $30 million campus with a 3,000-seat church, an education center and an 1,100-car parking lot.
...The Rev. H. Beecher Hicks learned that financing for the project had d...
[Gardner Taylor] said it was hard to envision Brooklyn without Rev. Jones. "What a mighty preacher he was...his genius was the gift of God," Taylor intoned. His voice, Rev. Taylor explained, was as close as we'll hear the transfer of language of earth to the language of eternity. "His voice was a kind of rhythmic thunder. Unable to attend the funeral, the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker sent his son who told the church that his father admired only a few men--Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Vernon Johns, and Rev. Jones. "He was my roommate at the University of Ghana," the senior Walker said in the letter read by his son, "and I traveled with him to India...and like Paul, you fought the good fight, finished the race, and kept the faith." Nor was the Rev. Jesse Jackson able to...
...Beecher Hicks, who smoothly moderated the event, and Counc...
...John Kinney 2005 - The Reverend Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. 2006 - The Reverend Al Sharpton 2007 - ...
Faith Baptist Church, 7378 Furnace Branch Road, will begin its fall schedule of Wednesday evening programs tonight with dinner at 5:15 p.m. followed by choir rehearsals and classes. The five children's choirs will practice from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. Children ages 4 through fifth grade may participate.
...The Rev. H. Beecher Hicks will speak. 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at Glen Burnie H...
...Beecher Hicks, who has been leading the clergy and the fai...
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