This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, guest speaker Mark DeYmaz kicked off our series "Love Your Neighborhood" with a powerful and challenging message. Mark is the Pastor at Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the founder of the Mosaix Global Network, a network of churches, organizations, and leaders seeking to strengthen multi-ethnic churches and …
Multiethnic Worship [from Christianity Today]
Michael Emerson, best known to me as a co-author of the outstanding book, Divided by Faith, wrote a very good review of a new book by Gerardo Marti entitled, Worship Across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation. A number of folks here at Eastbrook Church sent me links to the article because it …
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Fred Luter and the Multiethnic Church in America
This past week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), a denomination which has its roots in slave-era disputes in the United States, elected Fred Luter as its first African American president. Luter was elected to the post of Vice President last year, and about ten years before that was the first African American to preach to the …
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Matthew Erickson 