The Shrines of the Black Madonna are open to all who seek to cooperate with God in the movement toward peace, justice and liberation. Those wishing to join are encouraged to do so during the singing of the Invitational Hymn.

Sanctuary Etiquette As we cooperate to keep the atmosphere of reverence for everyone in worship, please refrain from talking, texting, and walking in the sanctuary during meditations, prayers, rituals, scripture readings, and messages from the pulpit.

The Shrines of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church

960 R.D. Abernathy Blvd., S.W. ~ Atlanta, Georgia 30310

Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman, Founder Jaramogi Menelik Kimathi, Holy Patriarch

Cardinal Mwenda Yazid -Chief Executive Officer Bishop Jabari Osaze - Chief Operating Officer Sister Abeni Olushola – Shrine Administrator

Cardinal Mwenda Yazid—Pastor Associate Pastors: Fundi Wamuiru Osayimwese,

Bishop Jawanza Ambakisye, and Bishop Ahdwele Dakarai

January 15, 2012 Season of Renewal

Devotional Welcome Call to Worship National Anthem for the Black Nation “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Congregational Hymn Altar Call/Prayer Choir Selections Sermon

Invitational Hymn Church Offerings Church Announcements

Offertory Hymn Recessional Hymn “Rise Nation, Rise Prayer of Benediction

• Congregation Standing

Shrine #1 Detroit, MI Cardinal Mbiyu Chui Shrine #9 Atlanta, GA Cardinal Mwenda Yazid Shrine #10 Houston, TX Cardinal Aswad Ambidwile Shrine #20 Beulah Land, SC Cardinal Judas Molikai

The Officers and members of the Shrines of the Black Madonna welcome you to this morning’s Worship Service. We invite you to actively participate with us as we praise GOD. We are pleased that you chose to worship with us this morning. Join us each Sunday and find strength in our harmonious fellowship. Our Worship Service begins at 10:30 a.m. during the summer and 11:00 a.m. at all other times.

May GOD continue to bless and keep you.

Almighty God,

Who called together the Black Nation Israel through Thy son, the revolutionary Black Messiah, Jesus, hallowed be Thy name. May Thy Black Nation speedily come and Thy will be done on earth as we accept commitment to daily sacrifice and struggle. Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive Black brothers and sisters who trespass against us. Help us to resist temptation, as we struggle against individualism, and may the Black Nation stand, as a living witness to Thy Power and Thy Glory, forever and ever. Amen

God’s Messengers

To Our Visitors and Friends

The Prayer of the Black Messiah

Standing in the Need of Prayer…

―Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have re-ceived it, and it will be yours.‖ Mark 11:24

Mr. Clinton Dunson (Sis. Kimaada Chui’s uncle), Atlanta Medical Hospital, suffered a massive stroke.

Please continue to keep in your prayers:

Mr. Alfred Pittman Bro. Sekou Bs. Ahdwele Sis. Sekayi Bro. Sowande Our College Students

Sis. Themba Sis. Okolo Bro. Chunga Bro. Champ Bro. Lateef Cpt. Abubakar Mr. Elmore Randall Bro. Kefing Bro. Moyenda Sis. Mawakana Sis. Tahirah Ms. Tina Fann Ms. Linda Clark Marie Pittman Mrs. Leigh Reynolds Altomease Lucas Ms. Doris Burrow Ms. Lynn Lewis Bro. Javorious Mrs. Mildred Davis Bro. Jabari Henry Bro. Stafford Murray Sis. Simiko Mr. Willie Minniefield

Bro. Jack Mitchell Jr. Mr. Wilbert Brown Mrs. Arzella Johnson Sis. Elizabeth Bro. Craig McClellan Mrs. Henrietta Day Mrs. Catherine Ealy Mrs. Lillian Hughes Mr. Pervis Johnson Ms. Marvine Miller Pvt. Shaquala Card. Chimba Chui Mr. Clyde Wooten Mrs. Gloria Williams The Ball Family Mrs. Mollie Clark Sis. Mariama

The Nation mourns with Bro. Onaje on the passing of

his brother,

Mr. Bobby Lee Luster.

Our prayer are with you and your family during this difficult time. May the

Holy Spirit be your guide and comforter.

With Deepest Sympathy

The Season of Renewal

We renew our covenant relationship with God. The beginning of the year is a time when people have tradi-tionally sought renewal and new beginnings. Kwanzaa ends on New Year’s Day with the principle of Imani (faith) suggesting that we begin the year with a re-newed sense of our faith in God and the covenant prom-ises. The custom of establishing New Year’s Resolutions also speaks to the sense of renewal that we week at the begin-ning of the year. Rather than allowing our desire for renewal to wane and peter our as time goes by, we continue and formalize our renewal efforts into a season of transforming spiritual power and opportunity. We renew our covenant relationship with GOD. We re-new our groups as we seek to improve group life. We re-new our organizational structure as we prepare for a new year of struggle and service. New Year’s Resolutions, in this context, are not private personal matters, but corporate, communal, covenant ob-ligations that are binding upon the People of GOD. The activities of this season are all meant to offer the total church and every member, new life, new hope and new possibilities in the coming year.

Call to Worship

Leader: I will bless the LORD at all times Congregation: His praise shall continually be in my mouth Leader: My soul makes its boast in the LORD Congregation: Let the humble hear and be glad Leader: O magnify the LORD with me Congregation: And let us exalt his name together (Repeat 3 times)

Auntie Pearl’s Words of Wisdom

“We can be the kind of people who harmonize with others and bring them into productive rela-

tionship, or we can be divisive, exclusive, envi-ous, competitive, and suspicious, labeling people as ‘other’, seeing them as objects. The example of human beings who realized their unity with Spirit can provide a model of behavior and con-

duct by which one may be assured of moral secu-rity and spiritual health.”

-Living Presence

by Kabir Edmund Helminski

Negro National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing, 'Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, 'Til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land.

Congregational Hymn “Hold to GOD’s Unchanging Hand”

Verse I

Time is filled with swift transition. Naught on earth unmoved can stand. Build your hopes on things eternal. Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Chorus

Hold to His hand, to God’s unchanging hand; Hold to His hand, to God’s unchanging hand.

Build your hopes on things eternal. Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Verse II

Trust in Him who will not leave you, Whatsoever years may bring. If by earthy friends forsaken,

Still more closely to Him cling.

Repeat Chorus

Verse III When your journey is completed,

If to God you have been true, Fair and bright your home to Glory

Your enraptured soul will view.

Repeat Chorus

Sermon Topic: Scripture Lesson:

My Sermon Notes

Resolve to Improve Your Financial Health in the New Year!

The Wellness Ministry of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Invites you to attend

A Free Credit and Business Seminar Saturday, January 21, 2012

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Bookstore Red Room ■Establish Your Credit ■ Improve Your Credit ■ Protect Your Credit ■ Obtain More Credit ■Reduce Your Debt ■ Start a Business ■ How to Manage a Business ■ Operate a Business ■IRAs and Other Bank Products Seminar Presented by: Mr. Isaac Wright, Store Manager, Wells Fargo Bank Mr. Brandon Kelly, Personal Banker, Wells Fargo Bank

Please register to attend the seminar online at http://credithealth.eventbrite.com/. (Click on the Register button). Or you can call Fundi Fatima at the Southern Regional Office at 404-343-3439.

A special Love Offering will be collected at the end of the presentation. Please give according to the helpfulness of the information you receive ($2.00 minimum). Proceeds will benefit the Ministries of the Shrine of the Black Madonna.

Announcing:

A Women's Self-Defense Class

(for Women 18 and up)

Beginning January 14, 2012 2:30pm -3:15pm.

Only Serious Students Need Apply. Cost is a mere $35.00

Instructor: Daktari Abayomi Ojore-

3rd Degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do

Power is as important as water, food, air, and shelter in the survival and development of an individual as well as the development of a group. Our beloved founder Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman realized that the black church could balance the scales of power if it had a process to help its members tap into their inner God power and use that power to transform their earthly conditions for the better. All the programs and spiritual processes developed by Jaramogi: KUA, Rituals, Small Group Devotionals, Small Group Meetings, Faith Development, Community and Social Outreach all have as a primary objective- the transformation of the individual, so that he or she is able to be an agent of change in the world.

The source of our founder’s courage and conviction was derived from his relationship with GOD. Jaramogi placed GOD first in his life. Therefore, he understood the transforming power of Worship and ensured that every activity and encounter in the church had a feel of worship. Worship, however, is not an isolated experience but, a necessary function that prepares our members to carry out the Works revealed through revelations received in worship.

Because we are called to worship GOD in spirit and in truth, our works testify that we serve a living GOD who is willing to struggle with us. The life we live serves as a Witness that the power of God can so guide a person’s actions in the world that others can be encouraged to join in and make their own contributions. This year will offer each member of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church a unique opportunity to double and re-double their efforts to make our church a great church by performing great acts of faith in the community.

Cardinal Mwenda Yazid Pastor

Feed My Sheep Ministry

The next breakfast for the

homeless will be held on January

14, 2012.

Groups will be assessed $50 a

month to help keep this ministry

up and running effectively.

Sis. Mosi will work with the cooks

to coordinate a schedule.

Members and friends are

encouraged to become a part of

this ministry. It’s an excellent

community service project for

aspiring college students.

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The Maccabees what to say thanks to the Nation for making 2011 a good year. Watch for even better happenings in 2012. Attention all Maccabees - There will be a clean-up fellowship Jan 21 at 1530hrs in the SRO. Coming soon - A paint party in the Dining room as we continue to re-model it.

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