Churches recently banded together as they dared to be different, by bringing predominantly White and predominantly Black congregations together under one roof to ask God to transform their fellowship and make them partners for justice.
Reverend Dr. Willie James Jennings, recipient of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, joined the community of Pittsburgh, Jan. 31, to share and worship on the topic of “Tear Open the Heavens: Race, Violence, and Faith in Our Times,” as the keynote speaker.
Pentecostal Temple COGIC
As the country has been in the state of an outrage due to the grand jury’s recent decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City; two small churches in Swissvale came together to plan an event.
“The community is so close, but yet so far away. It’s time we the people bridge the gap, and come together in fellowship,“ Bishop Loran E. Mann, of Pentecostal Temple COGIC said.
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