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THE 26th ANNUAL PREACHING WITH POWER For 26 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 Fund, which provides scholarship support to students who study in the seminary's 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.
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