The Episcopal Supervisor of the Fifth District of the A.M.E. Church keynotes service at Watts Church. Her visit coincides with a Church-wide effort to remember the victims of Hurricane Katrina during
December 9, 2005 (Press Release) --
LOS ANGELES — (December 9, 2005) — The Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant, the Episcopal Supervisor of the Fifth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, will be the keynote speaker at Grant A.M.E. Church – Watts at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18.
"We are delighted that Rev. Dr. Bryant has accepted our invitation to share God’s Word during this advent season," said the Rev. Leslie R. White, Grant’s pastor. "Her work in the Women’s Missionary Society is extraordinary and her involvement with Women in Ministry is legendary throughout Christendom."
Bryant’s visit coincides with a Church-wide effort to remember the victims of Hurricane Katrina during the holiday season. Members were challenged to purchase gift cards in any denomination to support members of the clergy who were displaced as a result of the nation’s worst natural disaster.
"Some 43 ministers and their families have not yet begun to recover from the devastation of the storm," White said in am impassioned plea during both the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. "By blessing them with a Wal-mart or Target or VISA gift cards you let them know that they are not forgotten. No, they are loved at Christmastime and always."
Though participation is voluntary, involvement is expected to be widespread. The church worked with community groups and organizations to raise nearly $90,000 for victims since August.
In the days after the disaster, for example, members’ Katrina-related contributions topped $16,000. Later, Grant partnered with Watts-area churches to raise in excess of $2,500 for Gulf-coast ministers and their families.
Collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Rabbis of Southern California yielded a $40,000 donation and Grant’s petition of local radio station KJLH resulted in $30,000 in gift cards that were distributed during a trip to the hurricane-ravaged region in October.
"What a blessing it would be to raise another $10,000 or more to bring hope to our brothers and sisters in Christ this Christmas," White added.
Bryant, too, is familiar with meeting the needs of suffering, disenfranchised persons. Two years ago she initiated the Children of Promise Housing Mission for 30 children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. She will lead a delegation of 150 women to Zambia next spring through the NaMayo Initiative to promote the health, economic development and healing of women in that country.
Already she has established Women’s Resource and Development Centers in Baltimore, Houston, the African nation of Liberia, and Free Town, Sierra Leone. She has also founded schools for children in Cambridge, Mass., Dallas, and Grand Bassa, Liberia. In addition to the centers in Free Town and Grand Bassa, a newly constructed early childhood education center in Seattle also bears her name.
The wife of Bishop John R. Bryant, one of the featured speakers during Grant’s Men’s Conference last March, "Dr. C" is the mother of Rev. Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant and Dr. Thema Simone Bryant-Davis.
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"We are delighted that Rev. Dr. Bryant has accepted our invitation to share God’s Word during this advent season," said the Rev. Leslie R. White, Grant’s pastor. "Her work in the Women’s Missionary Society is extraordinary and her involvement with Women in Ministry is legendary throughout Christendom."
Bryant’s visit coincides with a Church-wide effort to remember the victims of Hurricane Katrina during the holiday season. Members were challenged to purchase gift cards in any denomination to support members of the clergy who were displaced as a result of the nation’s worst natural disaster.
"Some 43 ministers and their families have not yet begun to recover from the devastation of the storm," White said in am impassioned plea during both the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. "By blessing them with a Wal-mart or Target or VISA gift cards you let them know that they are not forgotten. No, they are loved at Christmastime and always."
Though participation is voluntary, involvement is expected to be widespread. The church worked with community groups and organizations to raise nearly $90,000 for victims since August.
In the days after the disaster, for example, members’ Katrina-related contributions topped $16,000. Later, Grant partnered with Watts-area churches to raise in excess of $2,500 for Gulf-coast ministers and their families.
Collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Rabbis of Southern California yielded a $40,000 donation and Grant’s petition of local radio station KJLH resulted in $30,000 in gift cards that were distributed during a trip to the hurricane-ravaged region in October.
"What a blessing it would be to raise another $10,000 or more to bring hope to our brothers and sisters in Christ this Christmas," White added.
Bryant, too, is familiar with meeting the needs of suffering, disenfranchised persons. Two years ago she initiated the Children of Promise Housing Mission for 30 children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. She will lead a delegation of 150 women to Zambia next spring through the NaMayo Initiative to promote the health, economic development and healing of women in that country.
Already she has established Women’s Resource and Development Centers in Baltimore, Houston, the African nation of Liberia, and Free Town, Sierra Leone. She has also founded schools for children in Cambridge, Mass., Dallas, and Grand Bassa, Liberia. In addition to the centers in Free Town and Grand Bassa, a newly constructed early childhood education center in Seattle also bears her name.
The wife of Bishop John R. Bryant, one of the featured speakers during Grant’s Men’s Conference last March, "Dr. C" is the mother of Rev. Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant and Dr. Thema Simone Bryant-Davis.
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