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Curry
Temple Set to Celebrate Rededication
Cornerstone
laying ceremony, worship services to be presided over by presiding
elder
By
Allison Jean Eaton
Bulletin
Editor
COMPTON – One
of the city’s longstanding Black churches is gearing up for
a rededication ceremony this weekend.
Curry Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church will celebrate
Aug. 31 with two special worship sessions and a brick laying ceremony themed “Together
We Can Go from Good To Great!” at its 322 W. Rosecrans Ave. location.
The celebration will commence at 10:15 a.m. with a morning service
of worship with special guest speaker the Rev. Dr. Charley Hames Jr. Hames
is currently the senior pastor of the Beebe Memorial Chapel C.M.E. Church
in Oakland and a former pastor of Curry Temple, formerly known as Allen
Temple. Hames guided the congregation during the transition to the new
worship hall and the building of the senior residential center on the site
of the former church facility.
The afternoon worship service at 4 p.m. will feature guest speaker
Bishop E. Lynn Brown, presiding prelate of the 2nd Episcopal District of
the C.M.E. Church. Prior to being assigned to his current district, he
presided over the 9th Episcopal District for 16 years.
The laying of the cornerstone at “the church that faith built” will
be overseen by the Most Worshipful Sons of Light Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M.
State of California Inc., according to information provided by the church.
Curry Temple has been a mainstay in the Hub City since its inception
under the direction of the Rev. Norris S. Curry in May 1961, then known
as Allen Temple and located at 1001 N. Hickory.
What started out as a congregation of 27 adults and 28 children has
over the decades grown to one of about 180, according to the church’s
administrative assistant, Joyce Coleman.
“That fluctuates on any given Sunday,” said Coleman during
an Aug. 20 interview.
The rededication comes years after the plan spawned by one of the
temple’s former pastors, the Rev. William R. Johnson Jr., who had
a vision of transforming the former church location on North Hickory into
a senior living center to serve the city’s elders.
Johnson just recently passed on May 15.
The rededication, she said, is a move toward honoring Johnson and “paying
homage” to his vision.
Presiding over the weekend’s activities are the church’s senior
pastor, the Rev. James C. Raymond Jr., and presiding elder of the Los Angeles
District, Bishop Henry M. Williamson Sr., who currently oversees the 9th
Episcopal District.
The church’s public relations chair, Bettye Nichols, said the event
is sure to be a grand affair and hopes the community will come out to assist
in celebrating this joyous occasion of the church she has belonged to since
she was a child.
For more information, call the church at (310) 632-8104.
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