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THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
Church holding
musical program
St. Peter’s Primitive Baptist
Church Feed the Homeless and Hungry Outreach Minis- try is sponsoring a musical program on Sunday, May 2, 7 p.m. The church is located at 17251 Joseph Campau near E. McNichols. Rev. Walter L. Harris is pastor. This program will feature some of the best gospel groups in the city: the Dynamic Soul Superiors, the Southern Four, the Daughters of Vision, and others. Proceeds will help provide transporta- tion for the homeless, back and forth to the shelters. Tune in to the broadcast every Sat- urday at noon on WDRJ 1440 AM, visit www.1440wdrj.com or call (313) 893-9094.
THE BROWN FAMILY. Pictured (from left) are Xavier, Kenneth Jr., First Lady LaNay Brown and Pastor Dr. Kenneth Brown.
Third pastoral anniversary
Dr. Kenneth L. Brown will cel-
ebrate his third pastoral an- niversary with several events this month at Union Second Baptist Church. The theme is “A Pastor With a Praying Spirit.”
The celebration started on
Saturday, April 10, at 6 p.m. with a praise and worship ex- travaganza. Anniversary ser-
vices will be held on Sunday, April 18 and April 25, at 4 p.m. These events will be held at the church, 459 Beechwood, in River Rouge, starting at 11 a.m.
The anniversary banquet
will be held at Crystal Gardens Banquet Hall in Southgate with guest speaker, the Rev. Jim Holley, on Friday, April
23, starting at 7 p.m. Ticket donation is $25. No tickets will be sold at the door.
Deacon Charles Jordan
is general chairperson for the event. For more informa- tion, contact Doris E. Davis, PR chairperson, at (313) 491- 2411 or Anissa N. Burges, PR co-chairperson, at (313) 934- 2565.
Underground Railroad Families Historical Society celebrates lineage
By Ramen Sangral
Before a capacity crowd of dignitaries, de-
scendants of the Underground Railroad placed memorials at the riverfront Windsor-Detroit Un- derground Railroad statues. The Underground Railroad heritage is acknowledged by many historians and scholars as the movement that played a pivotal role in bringing the civil rights struggle to the forefront of political conscious- ness, and forever changed the humanitarian concepts of the western hemisphere.
With the help of Native Americans, includ-
ing Chiefs Pontiac and Techumseh from 1680 to 1840, more than 100,000 runaway slaves es- caped from the South to Michigan and Canada. Underground Railroad descendants still live on the Mt. Pleasant reservation and the Walpole Island reservation in Ontario.
The War of 1812 marked the unification of
Blacks and Native Americans into a power- ful military force that prevented the spread of slavery from the United States to Canada. After initial military victory, credence was given to the fact that only the military push of civil war would eradicate slavery in the United States.
Detroit and Chatham, Ontario, are the loca-
tion where abolitionists John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Josiah Henson planned the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Va.
Guest speaker Egyptologist Dr. Christopher
Avator gave a fascinating African global per- spective of ancient Kemet, citing books from Smithsonian scholar Dr. Ivan Van Sertima of Rutgers University, visiting professor at Princ- eton University, and Dr. Charles Finch III of Morehouse Medical School.
Dr. Avator that the Greeks Plato, Aristotle,
Socrates, Hippocrates and Pythagoras were all educated in ancient Kemet (Egypt), Africa.
African people were the first builders of
monumental civilizations, including the devel- opment of writing scripts, sciences, medicine, advanced mathematics, engineering, archi- tecture, astronomy, religion, law and the fine arts.
Imhotep, the father of medicine and archi-
tecture, was the world’s first historical genius. Imhotep, was the emininet architect of the Saqqara pyramid temple complex, forerunner of Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid.
Metropolitan
Baptist Church celebrates
anniversary
Metropolitan
Baptist
Church, 13110 14th Street, celebrated its 86th anniver- sary on March 21 at 3:30 p.m. The theme for this special occasion was “A Grand Past and a Glorious Future.” The speaker was Rev. Dr. Walter L. Parrish III, who is the general secretary of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
Rev. Dr. Parrish III is a grad-
uate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he received a B.A. degree, with a major in accounting. Upon graduation from college, he worked as a computer analyst for Southern Bell Telephone Company in Atlanta. In 1987 he received a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological Semi- nary in New York City, with highest honors.
In August of 2009, Rev. Dr.
Parrish was elected general secretary of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. He began this work in January 2010, following the convention’s mid-winter meet- ing. He will be working out of the headquarters office in Washington, D.C., as he serves throughout the country and internationally.
Dr. Charles Edward Clark,
Jr. is pastor. For more information, call
the church administrator at (313) 869-6676 or visit www.
mbcdetroit.org.
April 14-20, 2010
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Love tribute for Dr. Gloria Keith-Houser
The public is cordially in-
vited to attend the first annual love tribute honoring Dr. Gloria Keith-Houser on Satur- day, April 24, 3 p.m., at Univer- sity Liberty in Christ Temple, 7000 E. Canfield. Rev. Naomi Gatlin is host pastor. The text is 1st John 4:7,8. The theme is “Operating in Love.”
For more information,
contact Rev. Jewell Stringer, general chairperson, at (313) 491-1062; Missionary Shirley Conoway, co-chairperson, at (248) 893-7005; or deaconess Belinda Bailey, co-chairper- son, at (313) 926-3115.
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Revival, job fair
Pastor Prophet Cedric
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Service times and dates are
Sunday, 3-6 p.m., and Tues- day, 7-9 p.m., at 15570 Toep- fer, Eastpointe; and Thursday and Friday, 7-9 p.m., at 111 E. Kirby, inside the International Building.
All events are free and
open to the public. Attendees can meet with both for-profit and non-profit vendors after service at 8:30 on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The re- vival will run through 2010.
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