Worship with All Saints

Open Table is invited to worship at All Saints with Bethel AME – a historically African-American congregation and denomination.  This second part of the “church swap” will build on our worship last week at the Bethel AME Church on Savannah Street and is the fruit of recent conversations between the Bethel AME and All Saints congregations in an intentional effort to bridge the racial divide within the city of Mobile. In a 1960 interview with “Meet the Press”, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation… that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours… in Christian America.” In scripture, Jesus prayed that the church “may be one.” This effort is an outward and visible sign of such a possibility to bring about the racial reconciliation that our nation so desperately needs and the unification of the Church Universal – which are both signs of the completion of the Beloved Community.