ANNOUNCEMENTS:
 
Please join us today following worship for Camp Taifa 2019 – The Sunday Summer Series.Â
Theme: Â SANKOFAÂ Â Â Â
Standing in our Religious Present
> Remembering our Spiritual Past > Building our Africentric Future
Duration: approximately 75 minutes following worship
Sunday, July 21:Â Â Â Â Â Â Our Spiritual Past: The Sacred Texts of our Foreparents.
Biblical Text: Luke 4: 14 – 30
Shaping consciousness – The sacred texts of our families (Bible, Torah, Koran, Kebra Nagast, etc.)
Based on what we gleaned from our spiritual past, what are we passing on to the next generation?
Sunday, July 28: Â Â Our Afri-centric Future. African Diasporic Literature, as Sacred Text.
Biblical Text: Daniel 1:17
The literature of liberation, cultural identity/personhood
The literature of social, political, economic, environmental, religious justice
What makes a book “sacred/holy”? Literature that impacts the community and our collective cultures. From Columbus to Castro, Eric Williams   Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The People Could Fly, Virginia Hamilton
Pedagogy: Video clips, open discussion, small group discussion, lecture, facilitation.
Facilitator: Elder Carvel Bennett
 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute is now enrolling. Call us if you want your child to have an experience that is academically rigorous, culturally relevant and spiritually nurturing. We educate children from ages 3 to the 8th grade. Join us for our open house, July 26th at 6 pm, 1879 Columbia Drive, Decatur on the campus of Hillside Presbyterian Church. Kilombo exists because of First African Church’s commitment to institution building. FAC members in good standing receive a 10% discount. Call Mama Aminata at 404-992-8021, kilomboshule@gmail.com. Visit our website for more information, Kilombo Academic & Cultural Institute.
2019 Men’s Day Celebration, Big Miller Grove Baptist Church, 3800 Miles E. Fowler Way , Lithonia, GA. Pastor Miles E. Fowler invites Saturday, August 3rd –Early Morning Breakfast at 7 am, Men’s Fellowship Breakfast 8:15am – 10:15, Men’s Day Concert at 5pm with Pastor Andrew Doyle, Praise & Worship Leader/Speakers Bishop Eugene Smith, Pastor of New Vision of Faith Ministries and Min. Justin Smith, Associate Minister/Praise and Worship Leader of New Vision of Faith Ministries. Sunday, August 4th at 9:15am Men’s Day Speaker, Pastor Corey D. Sanders, New Impact Ministries Non-Denominational Church, Chester, South Carolina
CD’S are available for sale in our media room in the Narthex for $7.00.
Please visit our website at http://www.firstafrikanchurch.org/
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