The Angela Project Presents The 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony: 1619-2019: Commemorating 400 Years of Institutionalized Slavery in Colonized Americ

Mills, Cheri L.

ISBN 10: 0978557298 / ISBN 13: 9780978557294

Published by Simmons College of Kentucky, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Angela Project Presents The 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony: 1619-2019: Commemorating 400 Years of Institutionalized Slavery in Colonized Americ
• Publisher: Simmons College of Kentucky
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978557298
• ISBN 13: 9780978557294
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Program litany for the ceremony concluding 40 Days of Prayer for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS). The ceremony engages blacks and whites of all ages to engage in forgiveness and reconciliation for the devastating and lingering effects of 400 years of enslavement in America. The program format includes litanies, readings, Scripture passages, and songs. The ceremony can be adapted for any American city or region.

About the Author

For twenty-five years, Cheri L. Mills has served in full-time ministry at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Kevin W. Cosby, senior pastor. Cheri serves as church administrator at St. Stephen and administrative assistant to the senior pastor. She teaches adult Sunday School there and serves in the church's prayer ministry. Cheri is also prayer director for the Prayer Department at Simmons College of Kentucky, the nation's 107th HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), where Dr. Cosby serves as president. She holds a bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University and is a candidate for a Master of Divinity degree from the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. Cheri is the visionary leader and founder of 1 Voice Prayer Movement, which unites churches across racial, denominational, and cultural lines to pray on behalf of their cities, states, nation, and world that God's justice will be dispensed on behalf of the poor and oppressed. As of November 2019, 1 Voice Prayer Movement celebrates ten years of intercessory prayer ministry. She was awarded the Mary McLeod Bethune Achievement Award by the Louisville Section of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. for her contributions impacting the community, city, state, and beyond.