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, The need now is for a structure that will allow us to
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l °\ I t t• _..- s g, Chid and Drug abuse, Telephone Ministry,
N --- ® "The Lord has promised good to me,His word my _ y Teen-age Problems and ether needs of church and t
hope secures." It is with this thought firmly planted community. This church will be a community
-- _ ; in my heart and mind that I have embarked on this t _ church, wherever the needs are,we will be there also.
�- mission to construct a new sanctuary for the St.Jahn = t The St. John A.M.E. Church family realizes that the
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Y g harvest is plentious, but the laborers are few, and
$ m ty. s' s s' we endeavor to do something about it. We knew that
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times like these it is important that man should learns va
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to walk by faith and not by sight. This faith that I X 41 word of comfort and encouragement to help gsome
speak of has guided and strengthened my life and ; r poor lost and wandering seal find the way to Christ
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most certainly is a real source of inspiration. With L - and Spiritual security...thus abetter and more pro-
_ W / faith the St. John A.M.E. Church Family and I con- duetive life for all concerned. It is this kind of help
ceived the plan to construct a new St. John A.M.E.
d that the St.John A.M.E. Church Family purposes to
Church Plant. The realization that our congregation extend throughout our community,
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- = and community is in need of a more suitable,a more This tenure has per hags been the most challenging
• �. .-- - usable edifice is a direct part of the impetus for this t and most rewarding of my 27 years in the ministry.
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There were needs to be.met at Mt. Zion A.M.E.
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Sanford, Fla...Mt, Zion A.M.E. Church,,Gifford,
j Cr ,and is one of the city's oldest buildings. It is in the Fla., St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Stuart Fla., St.
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.Q woad is rattan, the roof's patches has patches. (M.L. Ray) renovated, parsonages to be repaired and built,
- -t The church first built in 1916,then rebuilt after the Yours III Christ, These were task that have been a part of my ministry.
° - . ? ` 6� � T.a_s_o." t�'-a' hurricane of 1926 is beyond repair. e
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Rev. C.E. Standifer These too have made one know that "Faith is the
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presence of their Bishop. e Rev. P.R.Cousin,Bishop tion d woth the presidency of the Council of
° �� _ g __� p p° p pr Y age of what Christian ministry is all about,,'Cousin `d.
' - R 0 -n of the I Ith Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church Bishops of the American ethodist Episcopal Church, Cousin and his wife, Margaret Joan, have five-sons,
Comprised of the State of Florida and the as. e o is actively involved in a';vide variety of civic and and celebrate their 31st,wedding m g nive .' this
- m { President of the National Council of Churches of t educational organizations.-°-, December. Four of thiir sons are either ministers or stu-
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e -E Bishop Cousin will be worshipping throughout the day of Kit College" No Carolina to his current Cousin is just as proud — is a computer buff.
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of August 25 with the St. John A.M.E. -hutch family ., y•
r - -i s q t D _ , , , involved a kind of journey in itself: We are rejoicing, Cousin said. "This.is a very
- rf A _ ,� M d wilt officiate at the gb ound breaking ceremonies'for Cousin, 51, recalls occassions in the 1960's when he meaningful and very helpful time for us and the f lv
the new St.John A.N(.E.Church Plant at 3 o'clock p.m. denied the privilege of speaking m certain churches,
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In a letter to the church Bishop ousin writes. p g we watched grow."
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1s marks a .,,at day,a great be m."a of a dream Cousin is a graduate of the Central State University in
I } g church teed d much-in-demand demandspeaker throughout
for the St, John A.i�r'. Church Family. The round Ohio, and received his "Masters in Theology, from
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breaking ceremonies are uric first fruits of the s Boston University in 1956. He `rent on to earn a dcc-
. ss Y/ In all °s involvements,Cousin `d he is guided at all
_` l f j ( planted d cultivated by the laborers of this con a- t, .6 „ rotate in inistry at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
_ Cr y faith in the strength of Christian unity."
I Q ( lion. TI.e beginning of a m. -e visiabie service to Christ g °° in 1975,studying as one of la-tin Luther, Jr. fellows in
t d community. I am proud of your actor- .ishments
He d he is strongly black church studies at that school. I-Ie`xwote his doc
,° gly co tted to ecumenism, has
.Tc., k 9 °tea 4 i and our desire to strive for nigher -eights through been involved in different areas of the NCCC's work toraI dissertation on "The Soul of Black eli `an.'`
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Christ our Lord... May God Bless your efforts," since the 1960s, including work with the NCCC Com- Following his ordination in 1952, Cousin served as
m a° _ mission on Faith d der and a committee on institu-
f a' —ABOUT E I do racism. pastor of congregations in Da �ille and Norfolk, `'a.,
i ce- w In the 33 years since Bishop Phillip R. Cousin's or- and in Durham, N.C., from 1960 to 1965.
_ P 1 ® � dination to the ministry of the African Methodist "We must emphasize the oneness of humankind," he He has taught courses in subjects including church and
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Episcopal Church,he has accepted each new opportunity said. a must stress the concept of human family,,go s et , black church studies, preaching and worship in
— with vigor and a sense of challenge. ing beyond ordinary familiar focuses and love, and
the black church at Duke University of North Carolina
s v, In November 1983, Bishop Cousin took the reins strengthening t
p gt g our concern about Hutt arms, at Chapel F'IiL and Southeastern Theological Seminary
president of the NCCC in the U.S., when the former : refugees and religion. We must remind ourselves that we "This is a time for personal and spiritual renewal,"he
president stepped down. He will complete the partial are a fanfily of humankind." said, "because there is aiways a strengthening of faith in
OIL - term and has been elected by the CCC's Governing But it's not that Cousin's human fairrily has tacked the midst of personal and institutional examination. We
Board to continue in the post through 1987. im rtance to him. Cousin is a person with a strong are seeking a source of strength, faith and direction, We
Cousin's calm manner belies his enormously energetic sense of family, both past and present. need to remind ourselves that we are still a council of the
nature. He juggles the duties of his bishopric with-the Born March 26, 1933, in Pittston, Pa„ he attributes churches of Christ, and that we are in the business of
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presidency of the NCCC—an unsalaried post which is his inspiration and motivation to his father, the Rev, making the Icing a known reality.®'