The community of First Afrikan church invites you to join us on Friday, April 3, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. for our annual “Seven Last Words.
The church is located at 5197 Salem Road, Lithonia Georgia 30038. Rev. Dr. Mark Ogunwale Lomax is the pastor.
The Seven Last Words of Jesus is traditionally the content for the Christian liturgy of a Good Friday Service. Good or Holy Friday is a first century church ritual commemorating the “death” of Jesus. It is a time of reverence, a time in which followers of the way actually recall the process that “silenced” God’s example of justice, compassion and concern, Yeshua our Afrikan Messiah.
This year at First Afrikan Church, we situate ourselves in what is one of the most somber experiences of our 21st century reality, the reality that innocent young lives continue to be silenced by government sanctioned killing. We will challenge ourselves to experience the devaluing and destroying of Black life. Our liturgy will engage us through testimony, music, imagery and dance to bear witness, to disclose and to stand in front of the silence of death.
We can in this service acknowledge and honor our feelings of loss, grief and even anger so that the eternal source, the Creator that resides within each one of us can do the work of resurrection.
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