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Bethel AME marks 180 years
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church will celebrate its 180th anniversary Sunday during the 9:30 a.m. service.
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FONTANA Citing the need to move forward with street-widening projects, the city opened the eminent-domain process Tuesday to acquire all or part of nine properties on Base Line and six properties on Sierra Avenue.
The move comes less than two months after the city took steps toward taking property 30 feet deep on two adjoining parcels owned by Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has resided on Base Line since the 1940s.
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church always has been on the cutting edge of civil rights, equal rights and justice.
It has been an agent of change since it began," said the Rev. Edward M. Bailey, 61, pastor of Lancaster's oldest African American church, at 450 E. Strawberry St.
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Health workshop is on tap today
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital and Yakima's Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church are hosting a multicultural health workshop today.
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Ellsworth Spencer "Buddy" Wilson, Jr., 78, of Lancaster, passed away April 5, 2011 at Hamilton Arms Center. Born August 18, 1932, son of the late Hilda W. Hardcastle and Ellsworth Spencer Wilson, Sr.
A veteran of the Air Force, Buddy was also a member of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Ebenezer AME Church, and Monumental AME Church.
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PASSAIC -- The Rev. Dorrian H. Schenck's message Sunday to representatives from nearly 20 city churches who gathered at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church was clear: "In all things give thanks.
Schenck, the senior pastor at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, gave the sermon during the city's 30th interfaith Thanksgiving service. He cautioned that you don't have to be thankful for the car accident, but you need to be thankful for what you do have -- because God is always in control.
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It's always tragic for the police and the community when an incident of excess force happens, but it's important to try to understand both sides of the conflict," said Cmdr. RaShall Brackney of Pittsburgh's Zone 5, which leads the city in violence and homicide.
Panel members included Esther L. Bush, president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Pittsburgh; James Fyfe, deputy commissioner for training for the New York City Police Department; Ray Martinez, mayor of Fort Collins, Colo. and a former police officer; John Timoney, chief of police for the city of Miami; Shanetta Y. Cutlar, chief of the Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and chairman of the...
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Dr. Gloria E. White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, founded My Sister's Keeper in 2002 in an effort to secure peace and justice throughout Sudan.
The nonprofit organization focuses on ministering to women in southern Sudan, she said, but her advocacy work spans the country.
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I preached in the commons, in Southwark, Northern Liberties, and wherever I could find an opening. I frequently preached twice a day, at 5 o'clock in the morning and in the evening, and it was not uncommony for me to preach four to five times a day... And saw the necessity of erecting a place of worship for the colored people." ("The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. [Richard Allen] New York").
Slowly, the message of freedom spoken by abolitionists, Quakers and men like Allen along with the warnings of eternal damnation for those who would continue to enslave God's creation - began to permeate the hearts of some "property owners." It was not long before Allen's owner, [Stokeley Sturgis], began to see himself through the eyes of a greater Master who did not approve of th...
...- to eventually become the purveyor of the African Methodist Episcopal religion that today boasts mem... than 2.5 million? And, what about Mother Bethel in Philadelphia - how could a former slave acquire...