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SUMMARY:Worship Services & Congregational Meeting
DESCRIPTION:\n\n&nbsp\;\nJoin | Invite | Share\n10:00 am Worship Services\n
 Facebook Live\nYouTube Streaming\n\n\n\nFall-Winter 2025 Sermon and Study 
 Series\nHope Rising: Restoring the Afrikan Spirit\nThe focus of this sermo
 n series is hope. It builds on the previous theme of faith. Hope is the fl
 ower of faith. Hope is not passive waiting – it is a sacred act of resis
 tance\, faith and creative restoration. For African people\, hope has alwa
 ys been a communal power that fuels survival\, liberation\, and renewal.\n
 \nHope is sacred resistance – the divine power that enables African peop
 le to rise\, rebuild\, and rejoice through every trial. Hope is not escapi
 sm. It is the breath of God renewing the people and the world. It is built
  into creation itself\; it is God’s gift to humanity\, the divine energy
  that transforms darkness into purpose.\n\nThis sermon series also address
 es the Nguzo Saba\, the seven principles of Kwanzaa to demonstrate that ho
 pe and faith are cultural as well as spiritual values. We do not have to c
 hoose between faith and culture because true African spirituality accommod
 ates every aspect of human beingness. Ntu\, the life giving\, life renewin
 g\, life sustaining spirit\, is in everything and everyone simultaneously.
  The Nguzo Saba provides healthy and self-affirming ways for African peopl
 es to live harmoniously and healthily in a world that fails to honor Afric
 an humanity.\n\nFinally\, we dub this series “Hope Rising” as a remind
 er that one of the greatest acts of resistance to our collective determina
 tion to survive and thrive is hope.\n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, November 2\nSerm
 on Theme: Hope in the Struggle\nBiblical Text: Exodus 3:7-10\n\n\n\nSermon
 : Sunday\, November 9\nPreaching the Nguzo Saba/The Seven Principles of Kw
 anzaa\nTheme: (Umoja) Hope That Unites \nBiblical Text: Ephesians 4:1-16\n
 \n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, November 16\nTheme: (Kujichagulia) Hope That Names 
 Itself \nBiblical Text: 1 Peter 2:9-10\n\n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, November 23
 \nTheme: (Ujima) Hope That Works Together \nBiblical Text: Nehemiah 4:6-9\
 n\n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, November 30 \nTheme: (Ujamaa) Hope That Shares\nBi
 blical Text: Acts 2:42-47\n\n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, December 7\nTheme: (Nia)
  Hope with Purpose\nBiblical Text: Jeremiah 29:10-14\n\n\n\nSermon: Sunday
 \, December 14 \n33rd Church Anniversary\nTheme: (Kuumba) Hope That Create
 s\nBiblical Text: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11\n\n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, December 2
 1\nTheme: (Imani) Hope That Believes\nBiblical Text: 1 Corinthians 13:13\n
 \n\n\nSermon: Sunday\, December 28 \nTheme: Farewell\nBiblical Text: Galat
 ians 6:9
CATEGORIES:worship
LOCATION:First Afrikan Church\, 5197 Salem Road\, Stonecrest\, GA\, 30083\,
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