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SANDY F. RAY - "A Voice in the Wilderness" - Report from the Front Line--The Pastor's Issue -Winter 2008-2009 - CD Issue

SANDY F. RAY was the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1944 until his death in 1979. He also was the president of the Empire State Convention (New York State Baptist Convention) from 1954 until his death and first vice president in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Inc., from 1968 until his death. Gardner C. Taylor, in his eulogy of Sandy Ray, called him the “president of preaching” and the “crown prince of the pulpit.”

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ANTHONY WALKER - "Holy Holy Holy" - Report from the Front Line --The Pastor's Issue -Winter 2008-2009 - CD Issue

ANTHONY WALKER performs Holy Holy Holy from his Simply Hymns…Simply Piano (2008 Walkstones Publishing). The selection is reproduced with permission of Anthony Walker and Walktones Publishing. Find out more about Anthony Walker at www.walktones.com.

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SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR – “Jesus Went Farther! Cultural Conformity and the Mind of Christ” - Report from the Front Line--The Pastor's Issue

SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR was a teacher, dean, and president of Virginia Union at Richmond, Virginia and president of North Carolina A&T State University. In 1969, he was named to occupy the Martin Luther King Chair at Rutgers University. He became pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1972 and served there until his retirement from the pastorate in 1989. He died in 1997.

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CLARENCE LAVAUGHN (C. L.) FRANKLIN - "The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest" - Great Revivalists I - Winter 2001-2002 - CD Issue

REV.CLARENCE LAVAUGHN (C. L.) FRANKLIN was pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan. In addition to being renowned as a preacher, Rev. Franklin was lauded as a singer and traveled for many years with Albertina Walker and the Original Caravans. He died in 1984. For an extended biography and the eulogy of Reverend Franklin, please see the Winter 2000-2001 issue of The African American Pulpit. "The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest" by Rev. Franklin is reproduced with permission of Emusic.com.

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ROBERT SMITH JR. and DORTHY WILSON - "Bow Down" -

ROBERT SMITH JR. is the long-time pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan. The emphasis of his ministry has been community development. Under his leadership, the church has purchased more than seventeen parcels of land that house ministries such as food, clothing, day care, and job training to bring people from welfare to work. REV. DORTHY WILSON is a pastor of the Atterberry Chapel Multiracial and Multicultural Church in Frankfurt, Germany. She has traveled Europe and Asia for the last twenty-five years spreading the gospel in song and sermon. "Bow Down" is reproduced with their permission.

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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS JONES - "An Anatomy of Forgiveness" -

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS JONES was pastor of Bethany Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York from 1962 until his death in 2006. Rev. Dr. Jones was a renowned preacher and revivalists, professor, staunch Christian activist and a leader in the struggle for human rights and economic justice. A former president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and founder of the National Black Pastors' Conference, Dr. Jones also served as national chairman of S.C.L.C.'s Operation Breadbasket and as member of the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance.

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CAESAR A. W. CLARK - "The Worms Got Him" -

CAESAR A. W. CLARK was the pastor of Good Street Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas from 1950 until his death in 2008. He also enjoyed a length tenure as president of the Baptist Missionary and Education State Convention of Texas and president of the Good Street Charitable Foundation. He is one of the greatest revivalists and most imitated preachers in the history of the African American church although he had no radio or T.V. broadcast, no Internet outreach and did not write any books.

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JESSICA KENDALL INGRAM - "How to Handle the Silence of God" -

JESSICA KENDALL INGRAM serves as the Supervisor of Missions for the Fifteenth District (located in South Africa) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She recently convened the First International Women's Convocation in Cape Town, RSA, and is the author of The Journey Inward and Still on the Journey . She was included in Ebony magazine's only list of top women preachers in America.

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PRATHIA HALL -"Between the Wilderness and the Cliff" -

PRATHIA HALL, noted American Baptist pastor, preacher, educator, lecturer, and a pioneering woman in ministry, died in 2002. Dr. Hall pastored the Mount Sharon Baptist Church in Philadelphia for nearly a quarter century. In 2000 she became an associate professor at Boston University School of Theology, holding the Martin Luther King Jr. Chair in Social Ethics.

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CLAUDETTE A. COPELAND is an advisory board member of The African American Pulpit. She serves as pastor and cofounder of the New Creation Christian Fellowship of San Antonio, Texas. Reverend Copeland has served in a variety of ministry settings, including the Hospital Chaplaincy and the Mission Field (Haiti and West Africa and East Africa), and is a member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

CLAUDETTE A. COPELAND is an advisory board member of The African American Pulpit. She serves as pastor and cofounder of the New Creation Christian Fellowship of San Antonio, Texas. Reverend Copeland has served in a variety of ministry settings, including the Hospital Chaplaincy and the Mission Field (Haiti and West Africa and East Africa), and is a member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

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Moses probably would not have heard God had he not been on the backside of the desert. God calls us at times way over in life to tell us that our dreams are to come true.

Sandy F. Ray
Great Revivalists I Winter - 2001-2002
God loves you. If there's anybody sinking in sin, let me tell you, love lifted me, and love will lift you.

E. K. Bailey
Great Revivalists II - Spring 2003
 
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