February 5, 2010

 

In celebration of Black History month, Imagine Fellowship church will host the 2010 Leonard F. Stoutemire Lecture Series in African American Religious History.  Stoutemire was the first black pastor in Holland, MI.  In 1946 he founded the All Nations Full Gospel Pentecostal Church, which still exists 64 years later in Holland Township.
 
You are invited to the three programs, held at:
Imagine Fellowship
167 West 20th St, Holland
The featured speakers are all students or faculty at Western Theological Seminary:
 
Friday, Feb. 5:
Professor Rev. Eric Williams, 2010 Faculty Fellow in Theology and Homiletics at Western Seminary: “Historicizing and Contextualizing African American Religious Thought.”
and
Rev. Wayne Coleman, Pastor of Imagine Fellowship: “Surviving Race and Place in My Black Face: C. Eric Lincoln.”
 
Friday, Feb. 19:
Minister Carlinda Peoples of Angel Community Church, Muskegon: “Black Womanist Thought/Leadership.”
and
Rev. Eugene Cowan, Pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, Muskegon, “The Pulpit Theologian: William Turner.”
 
Friday, Feb. 26:
Rev. Jeffrey Hough, Pastor of Angel Community Church, Muskegon: “Mysticism and Multiculturalism: Howard Thurman.”
and
Patricia Simmons, Executive Director of Jordan River Ministries: “The Starting Point to Theology According to Cecil Wayne Cone.”
 
For more information, contact Wayne Coleman at wayne465@yahoo.com or call (616) 392-2919.