Taking Golf to the Next Level

A groundbreaking agreement between the nation’s first private Historically Black College/University (HBCU) and The Ohio State University will be formally put in place Tuesday, June 28, 2022, on the campus of Wilberforce University. Wilberforce’s 22nd president, Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with The Ohio State University to create a partnership in turfgrass education for Wilberforce students.

Beginning in the fall semester of this year, Ohio State University will offer online non-credit certificates to Wilberforce University students through Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The courses include advanced golf course management, history of golf courses, and sports turf management. Wilberforce can accept the completed certificate course for the students’ credit. Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, is the nation’s first private, Historically Black College/University. Located in Greene County, Ohio, near Dayton, Wilberforce is a member of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), the NAIA, and the Ohio Link Library Consortium. According to HBCU.com, Wilberforce University is one of the top five HBCUs in the midwest.

CONGRATULATORY Announcements

*Purple font connotes Episcopal Family; Red font, General Officers; and Blue font, Connectional Officers.

JULY 2022

Bishop Philip And Supervisor Cousin Were Both Awarded The Americorps President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award From The White House. Bishop Philip and Episcopal Supervisor Dr. M. Joan Cousin were each awarded the AmeriCorps President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award. This special recognition from the White House is given to persons with over 4,000 or more hours of community service verified by a sponsoring organization. Bishop and Supervisor Cousin have a distinguished record of working with faith-based and community organizations during their active ministry and their retirement.

Congratulatory messages can be sent to: Bishop Philip and Episcopal Supervisor Dr. M. Joan Cousin: prc7696@aol.com.

Episcopal Supervisor Retired Dr. M. Joan Cousin Celebrates Her 90th Birthday. Dr. M. Joan Cousin has dedicated her time and talent to a crusade against HIV and AIDS. She has successfully established centers impacting this critical health area around the world. She was cited by President Bush for AIDS Education and the Center for Disease Control and the Congressional Records of the United States for her consistent commitment to HIV/AIDS education.

As the spouse of African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Philip R. Cousin, she has remained methodical in programmatic efforts to empower lives.

Her desire for women to tell their life experiences for future generations inspired the book, How I Got Over, edited by Dr. Bettye J. Allen and Dr. Trevy A. McDonald, which is a collection of stories that are testimonies of faith, hope, courage, and love.

She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Board member of the Balm in Gilead, National Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and life member of the NAACP.

She is the 2012 recipient of the Bishop’s Humanitarian Award and of the 2022 AmeriCorps President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award received from the White House for over 4,000 or more hours of community service.

She and her husband are the proud parents of five sons who are pastors in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philip, Jr., Steven, David, Michael, and Joseph. They have 2 granddaughters, twelve grandsons, and a host of great grands. Happy birthday wishes can be forwarded to: prc7696@aol.com. The Reverend Carolyn C. Cavaness Has Been Selected as One of City & State’s PA Forty Under 40. The Rev. Carolyn C. Cavaness, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ardmore, Pennsylvania is honored to have been selected on @cityandstatepa’s PA Forty Under 40 List.

The full issue can be viewed here: https://online. fliphtml5.com/bundy/rsma/#p=1. Congratulatory expressions can be emailed to: cccphilly@gmail. com.

On behalf of Publications Commission chair Bishop David Rwhynica Daniels, Jr., president/publisher of the AMEC Publishing House (Sunday School Union) the Rev. Dr. Roderick D. Belin, and editor of The Christian Recorder Mr. John Thomas III, we celebrate and applaud your achievements.

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NRSV) To share or receive information about Connectional clergy family bereavements and congratulations, please contact the AME Church Clergy Family Information Center. Mrs. Ora L. Easley, administrator • 5981 Hitching Post Lane • Nashville, TN 37211 • 615.833.6936 (CFIC Office) • amecfic. org • facebook.com/AMECFIC ❏ ❏ ❏

NECROLOGY Listings

*Purple font connotes Episcopal Family; Red font, General

Officers; and Blue font, Connectional Officers.

Ms. Alexandria Marie Jacobs,

the beloved daughter of the Rev. Bobby L. Jacobs, retired pastor whose last appointment was Mt. Moriah, Wildwood, Florida, Eleventh Episcopal District Mr. Ervin Thomas, Jr., 78, the brother of the Rev. Linda Thomas-Martin, presiding elder, South Memphis District, West Tennessee Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District; a retired educator, husband, father, and grandfather, and served as a steward, trustee, treasurer, choir member, among others at St. John AMEC in Memphis Mr. Isaac Edward Caise, the brother of the Rev. Revonda Bright, pastor of Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cynthiana, Kentucky, Thirthteenth Episcopal District

The Reverend Brenda I.

McClain of the Washington Conference, Second Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church

Mr. Eugene Johnson, Sr.,

age 69, the father of the Rev. Eugene A. Johnson, Jr., pastor of Person Chapel AME Church, Midway, Alabama, in the Northeast Alabama Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District

The Reverend Harold D.

Sidbury,Sr., age 81, husband,

JULY 2022

father, grandfather, and great grandfather, a superannuated pastor of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Second Episcopal District who was faithful to his pastoral charges until his retirement

Retired Presiding Elder Leo

E. Brock,Sr., of Montgomery, Alabama, the husband of Mrs. Susie Brock and a member of St. John’s AME Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in the Alabama River Region Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District Mr. Richard Herndon, the brother of the Rev. Dr. J. Wayne Rogers, pastor of Bethel AME Church Hope, Arkansas, Twelfth Episcopal District Mr. William Thornton, age 69, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, the brother of the Rev. Laurel Thornton, itinerant elder, and associate minister of St. John AME Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, in the Northwest Alabama Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District

Mrs. Quintine “Queen” Hayes

Brenson, the widow of the late Rev. V.L. Brenson - a long time pastor in the Fifth Episcopal District who served Bryant Temple AME Church for over 30 years, and the grandmother of the Rev. Theodore Payne IV, pastor of Ebenezer AME Church, Bremerton, WA, Fifth Episcopal District

EDITORIAL

Do Not Increase Your Storage

Mr. Byron Washington, Columnist “A time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away” – Ecclesiastes 3:6

I received an email stating that the storage limit for my email had been reached. I would be unable to receive messages due to being at capacity. The company did not encourage me to delete emails; however, the message read, “...to prevent interruption in service, get more storage.”

The company made it sound enticing and noted that more storage was not much. Consider this, however; if all their users pay $2 per month for extra storage, imagine how much money they make. The company has over 1 billion active users utilizing its email platform. The company making a lot of money is not the main reason I did not buy the extra storage. But one reason is that we should not be so quick to increase our storage because it costs us. Yes, it is only $2 a month, so $24 a year. Another is that this email prompted consideration that we often tolerate people, situations, and circumstances, increasing our capacity for stress and aggravation instead of reducing those things in our life.

On a recent podcast, one speaker said, “‘Yes,’ is expensive.” By saying yes, I want to buy more storage, I am actively participating in agreeing to carry more junk and unnecessary things. By saying yes to more storage, I am agreeing to waste more time searching for an email because I have retained emails I should have dismissed. Increasing storage in your life without a valid reason will cost you more than you can imagine.

In addition, when we unnecessarily increase storage in our life, we become vulnerable to being undisciplined. Let me give you an example. My family moves from country to country quite often due to work. Whenever we get ready to move, we have to sort through what needs to be shipped to the new location and what needs to be disregarded or given away. This process takes time on the front end but reduces stress when unpacking in the new location. Many of our colleagues say, “I will pack it all and sort it out when I get to the new location.” We all know what happens - they never sort it, and years later, they are still traveling around the world with boxes of baby clothes, and their kids are now teenagers because they refuse to stop adding capacity. My brothers and sisters, July is the midpoint of the year. What do you need to disregard as you head into the last part of 2022? Increasing your capacity is not a bad thing. However, the reason needs to be correct. Increasing storage because we do not want to sort through the clutter of our lives will ultimately cost us and is a sign that we need to focus on our discipline.

I never paid to increase my email capacity. Instead, I sat down and spent a long time deleting old emails and advertisements and removing myself from mailing lists. It took some time, but I felt good, and my email was less cluttered. Do not increase your storage when you can reduce unnecessary things to make room for what you need. ❏ ❏ ❏

Byron Washington Guest Editorial

Transition

Dr. Barbara J. Chappelle, a native of Miami, Florida, and the eldest of nine children, was the wife of the 108th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. Richard Allen Chappelle, Sr. She was also the mother of Kristen Nicole and the grandmother of Micah Jeremiah and Travis Richard. ted the

Dr. Chappelle taught school for 30 years (English, Spanish and Special Education) in Florida and Missouri after matriculating at Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, and Stetson University in Deland. She came out of retirement to teach without compensation at Shorter College, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Affiliations included the World Methodist Council; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); the Little Rock Chapter, National Urban League; National Council of Negro Women (NCNW); National Association of University Women; life member, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; life member, Women’s Missionary Society; and Gleaner Star Chapter #338 Order of the Eastern Star, P.H.A., Arkansas Jurisdiction.

Dr. Chappelle was a world traveler having lived in Southern Africa and toured Kenya, Europe, South America, and Asia. Her greatest love was educating, teaching, and empowering young women and men through the YPD and WMS. ove men

Following the election of her husband, Bishop Richard Allen Chappelle, in 1988, she served as Episcopal supervisor in the 17th (1988-1992), 18th (1992-1996), 8th (1996-2000), and 12th (2000-2008) Episcopal districts. She was known for her particular devotion to assisting clergy families and students establishing programs to assist persons in every Episcopal district she served in.

Dr. Chappelle died on Sunday, July 31, 2022. She is survived by her daughter and grandchildren. ❏ ❏ ❏

...From The Necrology p17 Brother Duane L. Calloway, the brother of the Rev. Dr. Kelvin T. Calloway, dean of the Southern California Annual Conference & pastor of Bethel AMEC (Los Angeles), Fifth Episcopal District; Duane was a licensed mortician in North Carolina, Maryland, & Virginia, a member of the Steward Board and the Men’s Ministry at Faith AME Church, Laurel, MD

Sister Stephanie Bender,

a graduate of Morris Brown College, employed with Piedmont Hospital as a chemist, a member of Nichols Chapel AME Church, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and president of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Northeast Alabama Conference, Ninth Episcopal District

Brother James Edward

Mitchell, husband of the Rev. Dr. Esther J. Mitchell, founder of the J.W. James AME Church-Maywood, IL; father of current pastor, the Rev. Garry S. Mitchell (the Rev. Tamar), and the Rev. Dawn C. Mitchell Parker of Emmanuel Temple AME Church (the Rev. James Parker, III), and Dr. James W. Mitchell (Rhonda)

Brother Redrick Gainous,

the father of the Rev. Titus (Nanette) Gainous, pastor of Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Church, Lakeland, FL, Eleventh Episcopal District, and the grandfather of Raven Gainous (1st vice president of the White-Fishburn area WMS) and Nicole.

Condolences to the bereaved are expressed on behalf of Publications Commission chair Bishop David R. Daniels, Jr., president/publisher of the AMEC Publishing House (Sunday School Union) the Rev. Dr. Roderick D. Belin, and editor of The Christian Recorder, Mr. John Thomas III.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 (NRSV) To share or receive information about Connectional clergy family bereavements and congratulations, please contact the AME Church Clergy Family Information Center. Mrs. Ora L. Easley, administrator • 5981 Hitching Post Lane • Nashville, TN 37211 • 615.833.6936 (CFIC Office) • amecfic.org •facebook.com/AMECFIC ❏ ❏ ❏