Jude 2

A local large Black church in my area, and also in the area where I deliver mail, had their annual Postal Worker Appreciation Day service. Postal workers from all around the area were invited. We were seated in the front of the church in reserved pews. After the service was a dinner. The members had to pay $3.00 but we were invited for free. It was a wonderful service and the food and fellowship was great as well. It was nice to worship with some co-workers and people on my route for the first time. The church has 2 services, 8am and 11am. The service I was in (11am) had about 150 in attendance. The sermon was from Luke 18 about the blind beggar on the Jericho road. The point was brought out that the people who tried to hush the beggar were told by Jesus to bring him to him. Sometimes the people who try to turn us away have to turn around and bring us back in. It was a wonderful service and I got home about 3pm.

A local large Black church in my area

Did they use exterior ? and was it semi gloss or enamel ?

There are two within about 4 minutes of my home. I love driving by on Sunday afternoon and seeing all the bright clothes at 2 o'clock or later. They don't fool with Sunday nights. Just get it all done in the daytime. I like that, but I don't think I would do well in those marathon services in all those dressy clothes.

LAst Sunday a group of us Cedar Ridge folks, a handful of members and not the entire congregation, went to eat together. I saw TD Jakes and Deon Sanders there but I suppose that since they are relatively famous someone may not have even noticed them.






disclaimer: It wasn't really Deon or TD that I saw but had we taken some pics we surely could have sold them to the tabloids as look alikes

An interesting fact I didn't know. During the service the Pastor said he had a video to show the congregation. He then said "You will know when to stand up" The video started showing pics from long ago with blacks with stripes on their backs. It moved forward showing the civil rights movements with lots of famous faces. When the song started everyone began standing up. I did as well. Afterwards I asked a black guy I was sitting with as to the importance of the song. I knew it had to have some special significance. He told me it was the Negro National Anthem. That made a lot of sense with what I saw in the video. It was interesting.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

While I don't agree with references to this song as "the negro (or black) national anthem," since there is no negro/black nation, the song itself is a very lovely song, with sentiments we can celebrate.

Lift every voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.

Wow. I learned something new on Jude2! Never knew that song was considered the "Negro/Black National Anthem."

I was thinking, "We Shall Overcome."

I love preaching to black congregations. The few times that I've had the privilege, they almost preached me weary.

pa

soulsearcher wrote:Wow. I learned something new on Jude2! Never knew that song was considered the "Negro/Black National Anthem."

I was thinking, "We Shall Overcome."

Michael, don't y'all have some black folks at your church??