Highlands Youth Re-Creation
Allenspark, CO
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Highlands Youth Re-Creation Allenspark, CO |
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our leaders... the planning team is proud to announce the following leaders for youth re-creation 2009: keynote worship leader: rev. j. herbert nelsonJ. Herbert Nelson
As an extension of his community based ministry, Dr. Nelson is a co-founder of Southern Faith, Labor and Community Alliance. The organization was founded to link Christian Churches with active labor organizing in the south. Previously, he served as Associate Director of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. As a consultant, he provides staff development training for Teacher Specialists, Curriculum Specialists and Principal Leaders who provide assistance for low-performing schools. A third generation graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, (Presbyterian University founded in 1865) Nelson earned a B.A. in Political Science/Urban Studies in 1981. In 1985, he earned the Master of Divinity degree from Johnson C. Smith Seminary (third generation graduate) at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. During his eleven year tenure as Pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina Nelson began the Doctor of Ministry Program at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. His dissertation was titled, “A Community Based Model of An African American New Church Development In the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Focused on the Educational Needs of Poor African American Children,” He graduated “With Distinction” in May 2002. J. Herbert as he is commonly known serves as preacher, workshop leader, consultant and writer. He is a featured conference preacher at Montreat, Mo Ranch and Massanetta Springs Conference Centers in the Presbyterian Church. His writings have appeared in Presbyterians Today and The Outlook. He is a member of several boards and professional organizations. Nelson has traveled to South Africa (1983), Geneva, Switzerland (1992), Montego Bay, Jamaica (1993, 2007), and Havana, Cuba (1999 and 2000).
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J. Herbert Nelson, II, is married to the Reverend Gail Porter Nelson and the father
of a 15 year old daughter, Alycia Yvette Nelson. He is a third generation
Presbyterian Pastor, who serves as Founder/Pastor of Liberation Community
Presbyterian Church (LCC) in Memphis, Tennessee. LCC chartered on April 11, 1999
and became the first African American Church in forty-six years to be developed in the Presbytery of
Memphis. The ministry received the prestigious Walton Grant,
which is awarded by the U.S. Presbyterian Church for outstanding work in New
Church Development. He gave up a position in a thriving, middle-class area in
Greensboro, North Carolina, because he wanted to be more actively involved in
social justice work. Liberation Community is an African Centered congregation
committed to evangelizing the poor to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)