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Article: A ministry of equality and hope. (African Methodist Episcopal Reverend Vashti McKenzie)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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Her very presence commands attention. Even as she stands in the back of the church in her billowing white robe, her powerful yet lyrical voice sends tremors through the pews. The Rev. Vashti McKenzie, one of the first women to pastor a major, old-line AME church, has arrived. And the tall, poised former professional model is letting all within earshot know that they are about to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Even a prominent bishop has changed his calendar to spend his first day off in six months at her Sunday morning service.
His time is not wasted because Rev. McKenzie is in her element. She knows it. The bishop knows it. Everybody in ...