Enjoy Fantastic Preaching? Come hear this…
Associated Baptist Press published this story on the Preach-In occurring at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in January 2008. Preachers from many different Baptist congregations will be on hand to fill our hearts and minds with the message of Christ. A significant draw will be the preaching of Rev. James Forbes:
James Forbes, pastor emeritus of the Riverside Church in New York, is among those who will preach at the event. Riverside is jointly affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ. It was founded in the 1920s by John Rockefeller as a monument to liberal Protestantism in New York City and has remained prominent in the nation’s theological and political affairs ever since. Forbes was the congregation’s first African-American senior pastor, and his predecessors at Riverside’s helm include Harry Emerson Fosdick and William Sloane Coffin.
The mini-homiletics conference is scheduled to take place during the breakout-session times at the groundbreaking conference, which will take place in Atlanta Jan. 30-Feb. 1. The meeting aims to bring together as many different kinds of Baptists as possible in the United States to worship together and discuss how they can cooperate across racial, denominational and ideological lines to work toward common evangelistic and social-justice goals.
Read the article to find out more about the other preachers who will be there- it is quite a diverse group of men and women! The article mentions in particular that :
The celebration of preaching will feature eight pulpiteers. They include five African-American ministers, two women, one associate pastor and one preacher of Latino heritage who currently serves as pastor of a historically Anglo congregation.Several of the preachers are senior pastors of historic African-American Baptist congregations. They include Otis Moss, pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland; Gina Stewart, pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn.; and Julius Scruggs, pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala.
