A Word from Bob: You’re reading Part 3, in a blog mini-series on Black Church History. You can read Part 1 here: My History with Black History Month. You can read Part 2 here: Learning from the Legacy of African American Christian Family Life. I’ve developed this series from my book, Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care. I’ve also based this blog series on a presentation I shared at Bethel Church in Gary, Indiana. You can find the PowerPoint presentation of that session here (here’s a shortened link if you’d like to easily share it: http://bit.ly/10LegaciesPPT). The focus of this blog mini-series is on: Learning from the Legacy of the Heroes of Black Church History.
Can You Name Any African American Church Founding Fathers?
In American culture, we tend to learn a lot about the white founding fathers of our government. However, we tend to learn much less (or nothing) about the founding fathers of the Black Church. Today we learn from three men who were each instrumental in the founding of the free Black Church.
Reverend Lemuel Haynes: An Epitaph Worth Living For—Hebrews 12:2-3
We begin our American history lesson with the Reverend Lemuel
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