Pastor Kenneth W. Hagin challenged CCC members to be bold in their faith. “God wants this church, and you individually, to make a difference in people’s life by taking up the mandate God gave my father in 1950 – ‘go teach my people faith.’”
Andrew Gouché is widely recognized and known as the “Godfather of Gospel Bass.” It’s a label he doesn’t shy away from and wears exceptionally well. Gouché and his gospel group, the Prayze Connection, are set to bring the church to the Hollywood Bowl stage during the 2023 Jazz Festival, a homecoming weekend like no other.
I just read an article about the Southern Baptist Convention cutting ties with Saddleback Church, founded by now retired Pastor Rick Warren, for defending women in the role of church leaders, particularly as pastors. This has been a long-standing controversial issue. There was a member in my own fellowship who had the same concern, so I had done some previous research on it. A lot of the controversy stems from Apostle Paul’s writings. On the one hand Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:12, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must
Second AME Church will present a workshop on “Spiritual Warfare Strategies” on Wednesday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the edifice located at 5500 South Hoover Street in Los Angeles.
Maestro Terrance T. White is a talented and anointed visionary, music producer, film composer, consultant, entrepreneur, man of faith, and the proud husband to the beautiful Dr. Alexis Nicole White, a Clinical Psychologist and the owner of Premium Wellness Group, LLC.
Many uplifting activities are taking place in the greater Los Angeles area. The following is a list of some of those programs.
On January 27, the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. Murderous Nazi terror targeted millions for reasons of biology, nationality, or political ideology. But few people know that the Nazis’ victims included thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered for their Christian faith.
The Community Lenten Caravan (CLC) continues to convene hybrid worship services in greater Los Angeles on each Wednesday, at 7 p.m., leading up to Resurrection Sunday, April 9.
The Right Rev. J. Drew Sheard, chief apostle and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Inc, will be the guest preacher at on Sunday, March 19, at 10 a.m., at West Angeles Cathedral, 3600 S. Crenshaw Blvd., in Los Angeles, announced Pastor Charles Blake II.
When Elder Dewitt Brown describes “animals,” he’s not just talking about four-legged furry creatures, but also two-legged human beings possessing meanness beyond measure. Brown details his journey to flee from this environment in “Escaping the Dogs of Mississippi,” a memoir outlining how he survived the racism of the deep South and went on to achieve rest in the Lord.
Lutheran Social Services of Southern California (LSSSC) – a leading provider of social services programs in Southern California – announces its first-ever Banding Together to Build Community Concert Series from February through April.
Black churches became centers of political engagement during the 19th century when Black Christians determined to achieve the full benefits of citizenship in U.S. society, scholar Nicole Myers Turner said during a Baptist History and Heritage Society webinar. Racial politics was driven “by the need to access resources that free Black people had been denied and a deep sense that Black freedom and equality must be recognized,” she said. “There was a development of this resistance to being marginalized in the post-emancipation period.” Myers Turner, an assistant professor of American religious history at Yale University, lectured on her 2020 book, “Soul
Former CCC First Lady, Dr. Betty Price, welcomed Apostle Crawford home, referring to her as a “spiritual daughter” of the church; someone whose brilliance and God-given gifts fostered a thriving women’s ministry at CCC (Crawford was ordained at the church in 1980).
Jewish celebration of Purim was born out of the Book of Esther in the Bible.
Attorneys Tom Mesereau and Robert Shapiro will be the keynote speakers at Yes We Can Worship Center’s (YWCWC) free fundraiser on Saturday, March 4, 2023, at 2 p.m. The fundraiser will be held at YWCWC, 10306 Avalon Blvd. in Los Angeles.