What do the seven churches in Revelation stand for? https://youtube/watch?v=7r8Djfxu1Bk&feature=youtube_gdata_playerThe seven churches described in Revelation 2-3 are seven literal churches at the time that John the apostle was writing Revelation. We are The Church with the Neighborly Spirit. Why are we a church with a neighborly spirit? Because The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. (https://youtube/watch?v=OS4b0PWLj5E&feature=youtube_gdata_player) (The Westside ship) THE Friendship Baptist Church of Chicago. The former Anshe Kanesses Israel, 3411 West Douglas Boulevard, was the largest synagogue on Chicagos West Side, designed by architects Aroner & Somers in 1913, to seat an estimated 3,500 members. As demographics in North Lawndale shifted, the building became Friendship Baptist Church in 1962, where the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke a number of times. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to establish a movement on the West Side of Chicago, Hall, then president of the West Side Federation, opened his church and offered King hospitality and access. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first preached at THE FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHICAGO. Even though some black clergy did not support Dr. King coming to Chicago, this man(SHEVLIN J HALL) knew that he was needed and stood by him. Reverend Dr. Shelvin Jerome Hall came to Friendship from Texas in the Fall of 1955 as the 7th Pastor of The Friendship Baptist Church of Chicago. Pastor Halls request was,If I am to be pastor, then let me pastor. he remain faithful for Fifty-one (51) as pastor of the Friendship Congregation. Outstanding ministers and Civil Rights leaders also were welcome at Friendship, including: The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and The Reverend Dr. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Due to rapid membership growth, we realized the need for a larger edifice. In 1962, we purchased property at 3411 West Douglas Boulevard for the sum of $ 60,000. On Sunday, July 29, 1962, with a motorcade of more than 100 cars, we marched into our new home. The enormous task of paying off the $30,000.00 mortgage was accomplished in three years and eight months instead of the allotted five years. The mortgage was burned on Sunday, July 31, 1966. Being a considerate and thoughtful leader, Pastor Hall named Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1966, as the “We dedicate this house” Day. This day was commemorated with the unveiling of a bronze plaque that was placed in the Church lobby. The historical tradition of Friendship has been that she prayed; therefore we congregated for the last time in the “Wilderness’ –3411 West Douglas Boulevard and made our way to “Canaan”, 5200 West Jackson Boulevard on Saturday, April 2, 1983 at 11:00 P.M. Choosing to emulate the exodus procedure of the Israelites leaving Egypt, we sneaked out under the cover of darkness and by motorcade made our way to our new home where we tarried the night through. At 1:00 A.M., Easter Sunday Morning, April 3, 1983, we began our Dedication Services with the Reverend Dr. Mack McCullom delivering the first sermon. Giving God all the praise, we dedicated the entire month of April to Revival Services. The official Ribbon Cutting Services was performed in July, 1983. Once more, we traveled by motorcade from 3411 West Douglas to our new edifice at 5200 West Jackson. Father Michael Ivers, (St. Agatha Catholic Church) brought Pastor Hall seven bricks from Douglas Boulevard. They were placed before the altar and represented the seven pastors in the life of Friendship. Lew Kreinberg joined the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs on its first day in 1964. For more than thirty years as staff and board member, Lew made himself available to communities across the city in the name of local empowerment and advancement. Kreinberg was instrumental in the founding of the West Side Federation in 1964, which emerged out of the efforts to transport West Side blacks to a civil rights rally in Soldier Field featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. The West Side Federation served as a coordinating body for West Side organizations. The Reverend Shelvin Hall of Friendship Baptist Church and Father Daniel Mallette, a Catholic Priest at St. Agatha’s Church, were the other leading spirits. The organizing ferment on Chicago’s West Side, which included Bernard LaFayette’s work with the American Friends Service Committee, led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with an advance team led by James Bevel, to focus its energies on the West Side even as it allied with the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, whose roots were deepest on the city’s South Side. In February 1966, the West Side Federation, along with CCCO and SCLC, seized a run-down apartment building at 1321 South Homan and assumed “trusteeship” of the structure. This was one of the most important events in the first few months of the Chicago Freedom Movement. Kreinberg, who had been trained in the Alinsky organizing tradition, was not especially enamored with the open-housing focus of the Chicago Freedom Movement, but he did participate in the marches for equal opportunity in housing. As an organizer for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, he focused on the needs of the inner city long after the Chicago Freedom Movement had ended. In the 1980s, Kreinberg served as an aide to Mayor Harold Washington. With Charles Bowden, he co-authored Street Signs Chicago. While working with Dr. King, Rev. Jackson,and Rev. Clay Evans on the southside, the Rev. Shelvin Hall on the westside, Andrew Young, then, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Al Raby and hundreds of goodwill people, he helped to promote fair housing, equal education and access to jobs for African-Americans and poor people. (The southside ship) https://youtube/watch?v=yOXepvYt8-c&feature=youtube_gdata_playerFellowship Missionary Baptist Church of Chicago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago’s south side during the civil rights movement. Mayor Richard Daley Sr. found out about Dr. King’s visit and phoned Reverend Clay Evans, Fellowship’s young senior pastor, to tell him that if Dr. King came to preach, he would “shut down his church.” The threat had teeth as the church was in the middle of a building project. Without permits, Daley pointed out, the trucks would “pull off the lot on Monday morning” and the building would remain a shell. Reverend Evans responded, “This is not my church, this is not your church, this is God’s church…so he is going to come and preach.” Sunday came and King preached, the choir sang, and the congregants rejoiced. Monday followed as it always does, and Daley made good on his promises. The permits never came, the trucks had to leave, and the steel beams stood vacant. Daley’s bold move did not have the effect that he intended. For 7 years, the unfinished building stood in resolute protest of a city and mayor that had little room for King’s message. They became an international symbol for the civil rights movement and the courage of one church that chose to stand in opposition to racism. Countless dignitaries from Sidney Portier to Nelson Mandella came to join in prayer and protest. At least 81 aspiring ministers studied under Evans, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom Evans ordained in 1965, about the same time Jackson left seminary to march with King. A year earlier, when other churches bowed to political pressure and declined to welcome King to their pulpits, Evans rolled out the red carpet, Jackson said, but not without consequence. Richard J. Daley blocked permits and persuaded bankers to halt their loans for the new church building. Other pastors underwrote the rest of the construction, which was completed by 1973. Charles Bowen, an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley who helped him win his first election, recalls his surprise given the history when Evans approached him in 1990 to serve as an intercessor between City Hall and Chicagos African-American clergy. He felt Mr. Richard M. Daley should be given a chance and should not carry the weight of his father, said Bowen, the former executive assistant to the mayor who retired in 2004. Bowen brokered the donation of lots for churches to develop in some of the citys poorest neighborhoods. But by the time Daleys son became mayor decades later, Evans had risen to prominence in the pulpit, gospel music and politics. His distinctive, raspy voice and gospel choir had earned international acclaim with millions of albums sold. Instead of fighting the younger Daley, Evans became one of his closest allies, bridging the gap between City Hall and clergy and empowering the black church. Where do the black church go from here????? Community or chaos. 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