Southeast wasn't the new direction Stacy Spencer had in mind when he was sent a decade ago to start a new congregation in an old church in another part of the city. But southeast he went in 2001, from Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, the prominent and bountiful Midtown congregation where Dr. Alvin Jackson taught him to preach hope and Dr. Frank Thomas taught him to preach empowerment.
Ellen Prewitt asked members of her afternoon writing workshop at the Door of Hope, a homeless advocacy organization, to focus on a familiar face suddenly missing from the circle. The group of homeless people penned their memories of 57-year- old Michael Rawlings, a man stabbed to death Wednesday morning at North Bellevue and Jefferson, in front of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
On May 15, Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church (MBCC) awarded $30,000 to 27 high school graduates to attend college or vocational school. Each scholarship recipient is a member of the church and has achieved amazing accomplishments, including academic honors, community service and service to the MBCC congregation. The MBCC Senior Class of 2011 high school scholarship recipients are comprised of the following students from various city, county, public, private and parochial schools: Cherie Anthony (Dr. Hollis F. Price Middle College High), Sedonia Beverly (Whitehaven High), Garrett Booker (Christian Brothers High), Jared Boyd (White Station High), Jessica Brown (White Station High), Kengeria Clay (West Memphis High), Akkili Coleman (Memphis Central High), Karl Dockery, Jr. (Bolton Hig...
As worshipers at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church welcomed their former pastor for a guest sermon Sunday in honor of the church's 90th anniversary, Emily LaMondue Jackson sat in the first section of pews. Jackson, 79, has attended "The Blvd," as members call it, longer than any other living member. As she looked at a photo in the program of herself as a child in front of the old church building in South Memphis, she recalled the changes she has seen in her 73 years with the church.
On the clear, bright Sunday morning of Halloween, Dr. Frank Thomas, senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, preached on the appropriate topic, "Haunted Houses and Secret Scars. A slender, unassuming man dressed in slacks and a jacket and an open shirt with no tie, Thomas began with a reading of a seemingly unpromising text - Matthew 12:43-45 - and then laid out, in a dry, almost intellectual fashion, the groundwork of his subject: That we are all haunted houses scarred by the emotional and psychological secrets we bear in our spiritual foundations.
An important new anthology of African-American sermons - eloquent, impassioned, sometimes scorching messages delivered by preachers in this country over the past 250 years - was co-edited by Dr. Frank A. Thomas, senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. Thomas will sign "Preaching With Sacred Fire" (W.W. Norton & Co., $45) at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Davis-Kidd Booksellers.
Christopher T. Liddell of Bartlett has been recognized by members of his fraternity for outstanding voluntarism, leadership and brotherhood. Liddell, a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Alpha Delta Lambda Chapter, was awarded the coveted L.O. Swingler Alumni Brother of the Year Award at the Association of Tennessee Alphamen District Conference held recently in Chattanooga . Liddell describes himself as a "servant leader" who began work as a volunteer at New Salem United Methodist Church in Macon, Miss. In 2001, Liddell relocated to Bartlett and became involved in various ministries at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, including the usher ministry and scholarship committee. He is also involved with youth as a volunteer basketball and soccer coach for the Bartlett Park...
Alpha Delta Lambda, Beta Xi and Kappa Eta chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. celebrated their 103rd Founder's Day the weekend of Dec. 5-6 . The second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Breakfast was Dec. 5 at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church at 70 North Bellevue in Memphis. Rev. Keith Norman, pastor of First Baptist Church-Broad was the speaker of the hour. He encouraged the brothers to be men of character and conviction, to be men of cooperative spirits, to be men of compassion and to be men that have great confidence.
Members of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church will soon have a second place where they can get "The Blvd" worship experience. Pastor Dr. Frank Thomas will begin preaching Sunday morning sermons at Opera Memphis on Sept. 27.
This month, Sonia Walker, the former TV personality, community activist, and counselor, took on yet another new identity. Earlier this month, Walker, 71, was ordained as a minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. She graduated from Memphis Theological Seminary in the spring after six years of studying part-time. She was not aiming for a new career. Years ago she had told friends who encouraged her, "I don't want to be one of those crazy preachers. That's not my crowd." But her work as a counselor at Mississippi Boulevard in the 1990s led her in that direction.
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