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An Annual Forum on Black Preaching and Theology
March 12-16, 2007
 For 25 years the seminary has brought to Philadelphia for a
week each March the finest in African American preaching as part of
the Preaching with Power series.
This series is hosted both on the seminary's campus and in congregations
throughout the community. The congregational backgrounds include the
American Baptist Churches, the United Methodist Church, the Church of
God in Christ, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America denomination.
All the preaching events are free. Collection proceeds benefit the
J.Q. Jackson Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarship support to students who
study in the seminary's 25-year-old Urban Theological Institute. The
seminary has also launched the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A.
Wright, Sr., Chair for African American Studies. Achievement of the
$1.5 million goal involving this Chair initiative will assure that the
teaching of African American studies with an Afro-centric theological
perspective achieves permanent and high-profile status at the seminary.
Dr. Wright Sr. was one of the first two African American scholars to
receive a degree from LTSP (in 1949). He served as pastor of Grace Baptist
Church in Philadelphia's Germantown section for 42 years and was the
congregation's pastor emeritus for an additional 21 years during retirement.
His son, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., is pastor of the 8,000-member
Trinity United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago, and is a frequent
Preaching with Power presenter.
Preliminary Schedule
 Monday, March 12th, 7:30 p.m.
Grace Baptist Church of Germantown
25 W. Johnson Street, Philadelphia PA 19144 [view map]
The Rev. Otis Moss, III currently serves as Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL under the leadership of senior Pastor, The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Prior to Trinity, Rev. Moss served a pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. During his tenure, the membership at Tabernacle rose from 125 to over 2100. Rev. Moss, the youngest lecturer to ever present to the Hampton University Ministers and Musicians Conference, the largest African American ecumenical conference in the nation, has done extensive research in the areas of African-American culture, and theology and youth development. This led him to create the Issachar Movement, a consulting group designed to bridge the generation gap within churches and to train a new generation of prophetic church leadership. Rev. Moss has received degrees from Morehouse College and Yale University.
 Tuesday, March 13th, 11:30 a.m.
Benbow Hall, Brossman Center
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA 19119 [view map]
Dr. Carol B. Duncan is Associate professor and chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. For the 2006-2007 academic year, she is serving as a visiting professor of Women’s Studies and Religion and Society at Harvard University. Her research interests include Caribbean religions in Diaspora, especially the Spiritual Baptist tradition, religion and postcolonialism, critical pedagogy in religious studies, and religion and popular culture with a focus on representations of gender, race, and sexuality in film and video. She holds a Ph.D from York University.
 Tuesday, March 13th, 7:30 p.m.
Tabernacle Lutheran Church
59th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia PA 19139 [view map]
The Rev. Lamont Anthony Wells, a native of Philadelphia, is the senior pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as the Lutheran Campus Pastor for the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of six colleges and universities. For many years Rev. Wells worked as a community resource specialist and grants administrator at the Fulton County department of Family and Children Services. Rev. Wells preaches a message of religious ecumenism and social justice. This motivates him as a pastoral leader, team builder, and community organizer. Rev. Well holds degrees from Morehouse college and the Interdenominational Theological Center/Johnson C. Smith Seminary.
 Wednesday, March 14th, 9:30 a.m.
LTSP Schaeffer-Ashmead Chapel
7301 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119 [view map]
The Rev. Khalfani Drummer, Esq. is the Senior Pastor of the historic Gethsemane Baptist Church in Washington D.C. A native Californian, Rev. Drummer holds a B.A from the University of California at Berkeley; a J.D. from Howard University School of Law; and is an alumnus of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia where he earned a M.Div. Rev. Drummer has combined his legal and theological training by developing a course Contemporary Legal Issues in the Church; he has taught and conducted workshops throughout the United States. Prior to being called to pastor in the nation’s capitol, Rev. Drummer served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Paschall in Philadelphia for ten years. He maintains a small law practice where he specializes in wills, trusts & estate administration.
 Wednesday, March 14th, 7:30 p.m.
Mt Airy Church of God in Christ
6401 Ogontz Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19150 [view map]
The Rev. Dr. Bernadette Glover-Williams serves as the Executive Pastor of Cathedral International in Perth Amboy, New Jersey where Bishop Donald Hilliard, Jr. is the Senior Pastor. She also serves as Preacher in Residence at New Brunswick Theology Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey. A third generation preacher, Dr. Glover-William’s motto is: “I am in the business of putting myself out of business.” Dr. Glover-Williams holds degrees from Eastern College and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as a D.Min. from United Theological Seminary, where she studied as a Jeremiah Wright, Molefi Asante, Cornel West Fellow.
 Thursday, March 15th, 7:30 p.m.
AME Union Church
1600 West Jefferson Street, Philadelphia PA 19121 [view map]
The Rev. Dr. Leah Gaskin Fitchue, President of Payne Theological Seminary, is the first African American woman president of a theological seminary accredited by the Association of Theological School and the first woman to serve as president of any historically black theological seminary. She is also an ordained Itinerant Elder in the A.M.E. Church. In this capacity, she has served on ministerial staffs at Mother Bethel and Jones Tabernacle AME Churches in Philadelphia. She also has a private practice as a clinical and spiritual counselor, serving as President of the Gaskin Fitchue Group. Dr. Fitchue holds an Ed.D. from Harvard University and a M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
 Friday, March 16th, 7:30 p.m.
Janes Memorial United Methodist Church
47 East Haines Street, Philadelphia PA 19119 [view map]
The Rev. Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. is Pastor Emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX where he served for 28 years. Additionally, he served as Adjunct Professor of Preaching at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University for 24 of those years. Known as much for his community activism as his preaching and teaching, Holmes was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from 1968-1972, while he was also United Methodist District Superintendent. Dr. Holmes was recognized in 2001as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s Invisible Giants in the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama. He holds degrees from Huston-Tillotson University and the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
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