Includes recitations, prayers, poetry, sample speeches, and responses. This book has been prepared to give persons asked to make welcome speeches or to respond to these speeches a handle on preparing what they will say.

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A handy, inexpensive resource, More Welcome Speeches can be used by persons frequently or rarely asked to make welcome speeches. Sample speeches and responses are included which can also be used as a prototype for creating a welcome speech.

More Welcome Speeches provides a quality resource for laypersons in the church. This volume will appeal especially to members of African American churches.

In the African American community, welcoming speeches are important part of each program and service.)

More Welcome Speeches:


• Includes poetry, prayers, recitations, tributes, and installation services
• Offers appropriate Scripture verses for special days
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Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. 

Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching method of all preachers. By focusing on the use of storytelling, imagination, and style of preaching rooted in African-American culture, Mitchell spotlights effective techniques for lively preaching. 

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The authors have prepared this valuable devotional resource for anyone looking for fresh quick devotion ideas. Not only does it include devotions that are ready-made for a variety of situations, but it includes ways to customize the material to make each one uniquely your own.

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Firmly rooted in the black experience, this approach to homiletics helps readers understand preaching as an oral event. The call/response tension in black preaching is what drives the musicality of speech in black churches. Crawford refers to this musicality of speech in African American churches.

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Using the motif of Christian conversion as a unifying theme, Whelchel provides a basic introduction to the history and diversity of Christian religion among enslaved Africans and black Americans.

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What's goin' down? I know you don't expect a seventy-five year old man to talk all that talk. . .

A strong and much needed book addressing black youth today, Preaching for Black Self-Esteem is geared to a generation of black men and women who can--suggests the authors--proudly face issues such as caste systems, one's own physical characteristics, feelings of ambivalence and inferiority, and even 'buppies'--economically upwardly mobile Blacks. 

A very powerful collection of sermons for a generation of Blacks coming of age after the Civil Rights era.

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An in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the melodies and rhythms of African American spirituals.

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Children imitate behaviors and learn values from the adults who care for them. In the absence of relationships or healthy, clearly transmitted values, children flounder. They are, one could say, relational refugees. Dr. Wimberly identifies the alienation of individuals amon the root causes of larger social problems, such as violence, domestic strife, racial prejudice, and addiction.

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Henry H. Mitchell's great contribution to the study of preaching has been his insistence that the homiletical practices of the Black church are gifts to the whole church. Nowhere has he made this point more forcefully than in Celebration and Experience in Preaching. In this classic text he advocates a way of preaching that genuinely engages all aspects of the congregation's attention, especially the ability to both understand and to feel the sermon's message. In this revised edition Mitchell builds on this groundbreaking work by examining in greater depth the multiple ways in which we experience the preached word, by defining the different kinds of claim on the behavior of the hearer that biblical texts express, and by e ... more

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