In long Beach
Antioch Church of Long Beach 1535 Gundry Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 591-8778 • F: (562) 599-6048 Pastor Wayne Chaney Jr. Worship Services: 8am, 9:30am, 11:30am Tuesday Youth BibleStudy: 8am, 9:30am, 11:30am WednesdayBible Study: Noon
Christ Second Baptist Church 1471 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 599-3421 • Fax: (562) 599-6175 • www.csbclb.org Rev. Welton Pleasant II, Senior Pastor Sunday School: 8:30am Sunday Worship Service: 9:40am Wed. Bible Study: 7pm Wed Youth & Young Adult Ministry: 7pm
Gospel Memorial Church of God In Christ 1480 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 599-7389 • F: 562-599-5779 • gospelmemorial@aol.com Bishop Joe L. Ealy Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11am Evening Worship: 6:30pm Wed. Intercessory Prayer: 7pm Wed. Pastoral teaching adults: 7:30pm Wed. Youth Ministry Boot-Camp; Youth Bible Study: 7pm & Choir Rehearsal: 7:30pm Grant AME Church of Long Beach 1129 Alamitos Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 • (562) 437-1567 grantamelb@aol.com • www.grantamelb.org Rev. Michael W. Eagle, Sr. Sun. Worship Experience: 10:45am 3rd Sun. Healing & Annointing: 10:45am Wed. Bible Study: Noon & 6pm Mothers of Murdered Youth & Children Were all receive a little attention, affection and love.
Pastor continued from page 22 church will die. If you go to most churches, you don’t have young adults. We do well at attracting them, but we have to be able to keep them. To allow them to take ownership in what's going on and be a part of what is happening—make them officers and leaders in the church. I know we have our tradition and I love our tradition, but we have to have that non-traditional service where you don’t have to come in wearing a suit and tie, you can come in relaxed and casual. What can we expect from Bryant Temple now—will they be a player in the community? You could expect for our doors to be open to the community. Expect us to reach out to our youth and young adults by ways of bringing programs that will not only attract them, but keep them. And yes, we will definitely be a player in the community. Healthcare continued from page 6
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places. We can lift up the successes of the California exchange and other exchanges through advocacy, through voices and through coming to the defense of Obamacare. We are supporting organizations, like Health Access, Families USA, Insure the Uninsured Project and other advocacy organizations and strengthening their capacity to bring the fight forward. That is number one. Number two is how do we manage on a parallel track to help get the right kind of people and the right kind of voices and the right kind of ideas in the repeal and replace conversation and debate? Q: What could California do to the provisions of health
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New Philadelphia A.M.E. Church 6380 S. Orange Avenue, Long Beach, Ca 90805 (562)422-9300•F: (562) 422-9400 Pastor Darryl E. Walker, Senior Pastor 1st & 5th Sunday Worship: 9am Sunday School/New Member Classes:8am Live Streaming on NuPhilly AppNuPhilly website: 9am 2nd thru 4th Sunday Worship:7:30 am &10:00am•Sunday School New Member Classes: 9am Live Streaming on the NuPhilly App/website: 7:30am Pastor’s Bible Study: Wednesday Eve 7pm Mid-Week Bible Study: Thursday 12:00 noon
Family of Faith Christian Center 345 E. Carson Street, Long Beach, CA 90807 (562) 595-1222 • F: (562) 595-1444 Pastor: Sherman A. Gordon, E.D. Min Sunday School: 9:00 AM Early Worship: 7:30 AM Morning Worship: 10:00 Am Bible Study: Every Wednesday 12 (Noon) & 7:00 PM Radio: 7:00 PM (1st & 3rd Sunday) Station: KJLH
In Monrovia
Second Baptist Church 925 S. Shamrock Avenue • P.O. Box 479, Monrovia, CA 91017 (626) 358-2136 • F: (626) 303-2477 Bishop W.M. Larue Dillard, Phd.
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church 980 Rio Grande Street, Pasadena, CA 91104 *Mailing Address: 1416 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena, 91104 (626) 794-4875 • F: (626) 794-7815 Pastor W. Harrison Trotter Sunday School: 8:30am Sunday Worship: 10am Bible Study Wednesday: 7pm Intercessory Prayer (Fourth Wed.): 7pm Christians Uniting To Make A Difference -Eph. 4:13
First AME Santa Monica 1823 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 450-0331 Pastor Rueben Ford Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Worship: 11am Bible Study: Thursday 6pm
Spirit of Zion Fellowship Church 10853 Victory Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 (805) 517-1907 • www.mtzionla.org Pastor E.V. Hill II
Sunday School: 9am Sunday Worship: 10am Tuesday Bible Study: 7pm Mid-day Worship Thursday: Noon www.bethelemchurchpasadena.org
reform even if the Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act? As you can imagine, a whirlwind of conversations [about options] is already unfolding. I will put them in three categories. The first category is let’s just preserve the progress we have made through Medicaid expansion and look to replace the anticipated loss of any federal dollars with state dollars or other revenue sources. Sources of those dollars could be the state general fund, a new tax, anything from soda taxes to marijuana taxes. The second is that we are free to do something different. You still have the financing issues to deal with, but you are not really building on what Obamacare has done. You are basically tearing that down and starting with something completely different. The third category is something in between those two. You preserve an aspect or two of Obamacare and build off of it. So that might be keeping the exchange and putting everything under it — Medicaid, Medicare and more of the individual market. In a sense, you are building from what Obamacare gave you and saying you can go even further. Our mission is to expand coverage and improve health for all. We are ready to invest in those ideas and make sure there is a healthy marketplace of ideas of what to do next in California. Q: In the short-term, if the federal government takes away the money, does the exchange shut down? Do people who gained coverage through the Medicaid expansion lose it? If they just take away the money without a replacement scenario, then we are back to seven million uninsured in California and in relatively short order. That is absent the state of California coming to the rescue with some general fund dollars. What we have in our favor against that is that you have midterm elections in two
In Van Nuys
Sunday Worship: 1pm Children's Church: 1pm
Sunday Worship: 7:45am, 10:45am, 4:45pm Ministry Worship to Children/Youth Sunday: 9:45am - 10:45am Prayer/Academy of Biblical Studies (Wed): 10:45am - 6:45pm www.second-baptistchurch.com
In Pasadena Bethlehem Church 1550 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 (626) 794-5211 • F: (626) 794-6592 Pastor Christopher A. Bourne
In Santa Monica
In Westchester Arise Christian Center 6949 La Tijera Blvd. Suite C, Westchester, CA 90045 (310)568-8445•F: (310) 568-8430 • Arisechristiancenter.com Pastor Ron Taylor Morning Worship: 9am & 11:15am Bible Study Wednesday: 7pm Intercessory Prayer Tuesday : 7pm Intercessory Prayer Sunday: 8am - 8:45am Intercessory Prayer Thursday: 11:30pm - 12:30pm
years and the GOP Congress would have to explain to their constituents how they gleefully eviscerated Obamacare and didn’t replace it with anything and now those constituents don’t have health coverage. I think the politics would mitigate against that worst case scenario. Areva Martin continued from page 8 oids were killing more blacks than whites that congress would have passed the same timely law. But that would be naïve, because in America black lives matter—just not as much as white ones. Passionate, outspoken and insightful, Areva Martin is one of the nation’s leading voices in the media. An attorney, advocate, legal and social issues commentator and talk show host, she is an audience favorite on a long list of shows from Dr. Phil to AC 360. For more information, visit: www.arevamartin.com. Unsung Hero continued from page 6 said. “I didn’t fear no man. If I didn’t wanna say ‘yes sir, no sir’, I had that right. I had to be free.” To be a freedom fighter, she said, required mental toughness. “I can still hear that sound when the police struck protesters over the head with their billy clubs,” she recalled. Asked if she ever took a beating while demonstrating, Leatha chuckled, inadvertently showing off her white teeth, she replied, “I was fast on my feet.” Despite the great risk to herself and her family, Leatha maintained she would have embarked on the same path for racial equality if she had to do it all over again. And she noted that as an active member of her church, she is just as passionate about the social and racial issues of today. “The fight continues because I don’t want my grandchildren shot down on the street because of their color,” she said.
Her granddaughter, Disha Ave McNeese, a gifted 13-year-old violinist described Leatha’s tenacity, strength, and fighting spirit as a unique quality. “My Gammy,” she called Leatha, “will give anything and everything that she has to anyone in need. Her love is unconditional.” Leatha’s only daughter Aveli Clay McCoy echoed similar sentiments. “It takes someone with a huge heart to not only have lived through those horrific times but also remain loving to everybody no matter the person’s ethnicity,” said McCoy. “In spite of all what she endured, none of it tarnished her as a person,” she added. As people began deserting the office building once the clock struck 5, Leatha explained why she insist on being called by her first name. “For so long the white man made us say ‘Mr. This and Mr. That, and you call my wife, Mrs. This, and Mrs. That.” African-Americans learned to accept this as the norm, she said. “Well, if I get married fifty times over I’m still going to be me. So call me Leatha.” Tony Rock continued from page 15 nicer person, just because a guy has a nicer job, doesn’t make him a nicer person. I see a lot of that dating in LA. If you have the things that attract women in LA, you get more girls. This is not all girls but some of them seem to be material-oriented and that’s not a genuine way to date somebody. Q: If you could stick to one of your professions [acting, producing, comedian] which one would you choose and why? A: Stand up comedy is the first love. That was the goal when I was a little kid. I didn’t say I wanted to be in a sitcom, I didn’t say I wanted to host a game show, I didn’t say I wanted to do anything else, but stand-up comedy so I will take that first every time. Stand up has afforded me to do very major things in my career.