PSC Religous Emphasis Week
02-13-20092009 RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK AT PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (February 12, 2009) --- Philander Smith College will hold its annual Religious Emphasis celebration Feb. 22-26. The weeklong observance will kick off with an opening worship service at Wesley Chapel United Methodist
Church (which sits on the campus) at 10:45 a.m. Monday, Feb. 22. Chaplain Ronnie Miller Yow, pastor of Wesley Chapel, will speak.
A complete listing of Religious Heritage Week activities is as follows:
• Religious Emphasis Week Kick-Off, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, a free event that will include refreshments, activities and fellowship; Student Union.
• Marjorie L. Kimbrough of Atlanta, Ga., author and lecturer, will speak on the topic “Womanist Theology” at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 24. Open to the public, admission is free; Harry R. Kendall Center. A reception and book signing will immediately follow.
• At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 an evening worship service at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church will feature guest minister Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, senior pastor of the 6,000-member Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
Since his election in June 1977, Hicks, a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, has served as the fifth senior minister in the congregation’s 140-year history. During his 27-year pastorate, Metropolitan has developed one of the world’s foremost Christian congregations, distinguished by its fervent worship and dynamic preaching. The church’s various commercial and
social service ventures have placed Metropolitan among the world’s most productive religious and civic institutions.
• Annual “Give the Gift of Life” Blood Drive sponsored by the American Red Cross, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25.; Student Union.
• Ash Wednesday evening worship service at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 will feature guest minister Elder Charles Harrison
Mason Patterson of Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tenn., the great-grandson and namesake of the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop C.H. Mason. Patterson, 32, was ordained an elder at the age of 21 and in 2004
was the youngest person ever elected to the COGIC National Board of Trustees.
• Rev. Debra Matthews, admissions associate at Memphis Theological Seminary, will be the featured speaker at the college’s chapel service at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. She will speak on “Ministry Vocation and Call.” Open to the public, admission is free; Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church.
• A ministry and seminary fair, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 where representatives from various schools including
Interdenominational Theological Center, SMU Perkins School of Theology, Garrett Evangelical The0logical Seminary, Saint Paul School of Theology and others will be on hand; Student Union.
• Living Legends Banquet, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 honoring community and religious leaders for their legacy of leadership from a biblical perspective. Rev. C.J. Duvall, senior pastor of Theressa Hoover United Methodist Church in Little
Rock will be the keynote speaker. Tickets are $25 per person (tables of 10 are $250) and are available by calling 370-5344; Kendall Center. For more information about Religious Emphasis Week activities call (501) 370-5344.
Founded in 1877, Philander Smith College is one of the oldest private, historically Black institutions of higher learning in Arkansas. The four-year liberal arts college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is the only United Negro College Fund member institution in the state. For more information,
visit www.philander.edu.
