Central United Methodist Church Service, circa 1981

Collection:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Title:: Central United Methodist Church Service, circa 1981
Date of Original:: 1980/1982
Subject:: African Americans--Religion
African American clergy
Sermons
Gospel music
Location:: United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Medium:: audiotapes
Type:: Sound
Format:: audio/mpeg
Description:: This audio recording features a church service at Central United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The service proceedings include songs, followed by a prayer, and musical selections by the church's choral ensemble . At 00:33:00, Joseph E. Lowery gives a sermon about the art of infanticipating, which he defines as preparing for the blessing of a child to be born, and metaphorically compares it to preparing for a blessed event. Lowery provides the three ways of preparing for a spiritual experience and blessing by 1) Watching your diet by finding balance, thinking healthy, and being loving and grateful. 2) Exercising through prayer, worship, and service. 3) Creating a layette to wear the armor of God, love, and light through the darkness. The recording ends with Lowery leading the choir in singing songs. Audio cuts out from 00:45:21 to 00:45:31, then becomes low.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection.
Metadata URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00369
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Extent:: 01:02:06
Original Collection:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Audiovisual
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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