Ask talented musician and pastor Kenneth Hollins how he ended up being a pastor and schoolteacher, and he will tell you, “It was an accident.”
The gifted artist was on the road to the lucrative, professional life of a...
The Rev. Sherman Helton’s 45th pastoral anniversary celebration was an appreciative look at the past and a hopeful, joyous, and optimistic look toward the future.
The May 5 “Helton Gala” lauded Helton’s 45 years as pastor of New Hope Baptist...
Five years into his pastorship of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church-Westwood, the Rev. Melvin D. Watkins Jr. is reflective about “precarious and unsafe shifts in the culture” that don’t “bode well for the generations coming up behind us.”
Fresh off Mt....
Bishop Charles H. Mason Patterson Sr. asked God to show him a “new face” for evangelism and God gave him bikers.
Motorcycle riders gathered Sunday (April 23) at Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ for a “City-wide Blessing of...
Doris Thomas Hill envisioned a school in Jamaica that would mirror her successful, tutorial program at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church.
On April 13, the dedication and ribbon-cutting of The Keith Primary School in the Hill-Robinson Building was the realization of...
Raven Brown is on a journey of faith, hope and love that began with heartache and now is flowing on a river of hope and success.
Inspiring Brown’s courageous venture into endless possibilities is something she initially thought was the...
The likenesses of 12 Memphis-area pastors are the focal points in “Visible Portraits of Light,” an exhibit reflecting the collaborative effort of Memphis artist Larry Walker and B. Visible Magazine.
An Opening Exhibit & Unveiling Reception (Feb. 26) hosted the...
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The Rev. Dr. William A. “Bill” Adkins Jr. celebrated 40 years of ministry as well as his birthday at Greater Imani Church the Cathedral of Faith last Sunday (Feb. 5).
Dr. Adkins, Greater Imani’s senior pastor, spoke...
The distinction and pageantry of the national memorial service for COGIC Evangelist Louise Dowdy Patterson was reminiscent of that afforded her late husband, Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
With Downtown Memphis draping Temple of Deliverance Church of God and Christ...
Grants totaling $548,000 recently were awarded to historic Collins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American congregation established in Memphis.
The money came from the African American Civil Rights Grant Program Historic Preservation Fund.
“I became Collins Chapel pastor four...