About LipscombMar. 10 - 11 - The Man from Macedonia
3/10/2010
Lipscomb University Multicultural Affairs (LUMA) will host Rev. Aaron Johnson and Deb Cleveland on Wednesday, March 10, and Thursday, March 11, for a series of campus and community events.
In his memoir, Man from Macedonia: My Life of Service, Struggle, Faith and Hope, Johnson tells his story. Bringing his readers face-to-face with the Ku Klux Klan, President Ronald Reagan and Prison Fellowship’s Chuck Colson, and with a death-row inmate in his final days. Including parts of the Wilmington Ten trial story that the media never covered.
Johnson was born a sharecropper’s son in rural Willard, North Carolina, on March 6, 1933. He earned an undergraduate and master of divinity degree from Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. While serving more than four decades as pastor of Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C., Rev. Johnson also served as an advisor to three North Carolina governors on race relations, a member of the Fayetteville City Council, North Carolina’s first African-American secretary of corrections, and a member of the original Prison Fellowship Operation Starting Line team that brought prison evangelism to 22 states.
Cleveland is the author of Hugs from Heaven: Portraits of a Woman’s Faith and Footsteps & Heartbeats, a weekly newspaper column she wrote for more than seventeen years. Her work has also appeared in Woman’s Day and other magazines.
Events will include:
Wednesday, March 10
• 12 p.m.-1 p.m.: Student luncheon in Shamblin
• Afternoon: Classroom appearances
• 5 p.m. Women’s prison appearances
Thursday, March 11:
• 7:45-9:45 a.m.: Breakfast and community event
• 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Book signing
• 10:55 a.m.: LUMA chapel in room 108 of Swang
For more information contact Tenielle Buchanan at 615.966.5264.
3/10/2010
Lipscomb University Multicultural Affairs (LUMA) will host Rev. Aaron Johnson and Deb Cleveland on Wednesday, March 10, and Thursday, March 11, for a series of campus and community events.
In his memoir, Man from Macedonia: My Life of Service, Struggle, Faith and Hope, Johnson tells his story. Bringing his readers face-to-face with the Ku Klux Klan, President Ronald Reagan and Prison Fellowship’s Chuck Colson, and with a death-row inmate in his final days. Including parts of the Wilmington Ten trial story that the media never covered.
Johnson was born a sharecropper’s son in rural Willard, North Carolina, on March 6, 1933. He earned an undergraduate and master of divinity degree from Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. While serving more than four decades as pastor of Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C., Rev. Johnson also served as an advisor to three North Carolina governors on race relations, a member of the Fayetteville City Council, North Carolina’s first African-American secretary of corrections, and a member of the original Prison Fellowship Operation Starting Line team that brought prison evangelism to 22 states.
Cleveland is the author of Hugs from Heaven: Portraits of a Woman’s Faith and Footsteps & Heartbeats, a weekly newspaper column she wrote for more than seventeen years. Her work has also appeared in Woman’s Day and other magazines.
Events will include:
Wednesday, March 10
• 12 p.m.-1 p.m.: Student luncheon in Shamblin
• Afternoon: Classroom appearances
• 5 p.m. Women’s prison appearances
Thursday, March 11:
• 7:45-9:45 a.m.: Breakfast and community event
• 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Book signing
• 10:55 a.m.: LUMA chapel in room 108 of Swang
For more information contact Tenielle Buchanan at 615.966.5264.
