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March 1998
“Dedicated to Educating the Leaders of Tomorrow” in the AUC
Dr. Frank M. Reid, III, Pastor
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
PROJECT VOTE SMART...
Morris Brown
Students Qualify
for $100,000
by Adelaide Elm
Communications Director
Morris Brown College stu
dents are now eligible for gen
erous scholarships to work
as national interns with Pro
ject Vote Smart during the
1998-election year. A munifi
cent grant of $100,000 from
the Hearst Foundation
and Project Vote Smart
members provides support for
Morris Brown College stu
dents who devote ten weeks
interviewing over 13,000
congressional, gubernatorial
and legislative candidates and
checking their backgrounds
and job performances, re
searching issues on the Vote
Smart Web site, compiling
and editing publications, and
working with political report
ers and editors covering fed
eral and state campaigns.
“Interns have a tremendous
opportunity to make a positive
impact by providing a Voter’s
Self-Defense System that de
fends our citizens from nega
tive and manipulative cam
paigns,” said Ms. Stewart,
National Internship Coordina
tor. “Interns work directly to
give back to democracy what
sophisticated technology and
manipulative campaign tac
tics have taken away in the
past decades,” she added.
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Dr. Frank M. Reid, III
Founders ’Day
Convocation Speaker
orris
Brown
College
celebrates
its 117th
Founders' Day
on Thursday,
March 5, 1998 at
10:00 a.m. in the
John H. Lewis
Gymnasium. The
featured speaker for
the occasion is the
Rev. Frank Madison
Reid, III the highly
esteemed pastor of
historic Bethel
African Methodist
Episcopal Church
located in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Son of the late Frank
Madison Reid, Jr. and grand
son of the late Frank Madison
Reid, Sr., he is a fifth gene
ration preacher and pastor.
Rev. Reid is a modern day
Nehemiah laboring to re
build broken lives and com
munities through the word
of God. He is gifted and
anointed, able to reach people
across denominations, racial,
gender or age line. A bridge
builder promoting reconcili
ation between African Amer
icans, Asians, and Jews, his
message of liberating love
through Jesus Christ
touches countless
thousands.
The pastor of Bethel Balti
more since October 1988, Rev.
Reid has increased the mem
bership rolls to over 12,200,
adding at least 1,000 mem
bers each year under his ten
ure. This mighty man of God
has dramatically increased
the number of men worship
ping at Bethel. Each of the
Sunday morning services at
eight and eleven o’clock
attracts over 2,500 persons,
nearly forty percent of whom
are men.
Bethel Baltimore is one
of the largest African Metho
dist Episcopal Churches in
the country and one of the
top five fastest growing con
gregations of any Protestant
denomination in this country.
The April 1997 issue of
Emerge Magazine fists Bet
hel in its Mega Church
Resource Guide. With an
annual consolidated budget
of over $5 million dollars,
Bethel maintains a full ser
vice ministry for its mem
bers and community, operat
ing an Outreach Center,
Christian Day School, Word
based counseling program for
substance abusers. There’s
also a dance ministry, seniors
ministry, prison ministry and
a scholarship ministry that
annually gives over forty
thousand dollars in college
scholarships to students.
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