Leader: The Right Reverend G.P. Mellick Belshaw, Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey Preacher: The Reverend Canon Martin Oguike, Vicar of St. John's Church, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Please join the people of the Diocese of New Jersey and the Sudan/Darfur Committee of our Diocese for an African Evensong featuring traditional African worship, music, dance, drums and other instruments, attire — and the fervent joy and praise of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The service will be followed by a reception featuring African dishes and a visual presentation on theological education in Africa. In addition to offering a powerful witness for the people of Sudan and Darfur in this continued time of crisis and war, we will be requesting a free will offering for the new Scholarship Fund of the Sudan/Darfur Committee, to provide theological education/seminary education for a leader for the Anglican Church of Sudan, and the power and presence of the Christian church in the work of justice, peace and reconciliation. Don't miss this remarkable and inspiring evening of worship, education and fellowship as we provide a powerful voice of advocacy for the people of Sudan and Darfur! Sponsored by the Sudan/Darfur Committee.
When: Sunday, October 17 at 3 pm. Reception follows.
Where Trinity Cathedral
801 West State Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08618
609 392-3805
Contact: The Reverend Dr. Hugh Brown, 609 921-2420 or at Rector@allsaint.org
The Reverend Canon Martin Oguike is the vicar of St. John's Church, Woodbridge. Canon Oguike was born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Theology from Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Church History from the University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria.
Canon Oguike lived through a genocidal civil war in Nigeria from 1967-1970, similar to the situation in Sudan/Darfur on which his dissertation, The Role of the Church in the Nigerian Civil War, is based.
The Right Reverend George Phelps Mellick Belshaw is retired ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey and was chairman of the board of trustees of the General Theological Seminary from 1992 to 2000, as well as acting dean and president from 1997-98.
He is currently a trustee of The General Theological Seminary and chairman of the Coalition for Peace Action in Princeton. He is also on the boards of The Anglican Theological Review and The American Teilhard Association.
He is former president of the Episcopal Urban Caucus a member of the Commission on Peace, Episcopal Church, and president of the Coalition of Religious Leaders of New Jersey. Belshaw served as editor of Lent with Evelyn Underhill and Lent with William Temple, and is the author of articles in The Anglican Theological Review, Teilhard Perspective and St. Luke's Journal.
