Long Neck UMC to celebrate black history Feb. 21
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Long Neck angola, DE
United States
Long Neck United Methodist Church will celebrate Black History Month at 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 21. Focusing on the United Methodist Church and gospel music, this year's theme is We've Come a Long Way.
The featured speaker will be Bishop Violet L. Fisher. Her talk will be followed by a soul and Southern-style dinner. A love offering will be accepted.
Fisher was born into a Methodist family in Easton on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She earned a BS from Bowie University and an MEd from George Washington University. She taught in the public school systems of Virginia and Maryland for 22 years.
Fisher's call to ministry began when she was 16 years old. During that time, there was no place in ordained ministry for women, especially in the Delaware Conference of the Central Jurisdiction. At the age of 25, Fisher was ordained by the King's Apostle Holiness Church of God and served as National Evangelist and Missionary (short term) to East Africa, then the Republic of Haiti, and then Jamaica.
Returning to the church of her birth, Fisher graduated from Eastern Baptist Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1988. She was ordained deacon in 1988 by Bishop F. Herbert Skeete and elder in 1990 by Bishop Susan M. Morrison.
Long Neck UMC is at 32051 Long Neck Road, Long Neck.
