Welcome to the African Redemption Church website

African Redemption Church
at Songhai City Cultural Center
3117-27 Master Street
Philadelphia, PA 19121
(215) 519-7749
arc[at]AfricanRedemptionChurch[dot]org

africanredemptionchurch@gmail.com

Facebook: ARCliberation or African Redemption Church

SATURDAYS 11:00 a.m. to Noon

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Come Worship the Creator, Fellowship, and Discuss Spirituality and Revolution.  We are an organization moving forward in the world, in struggle for the
poor, exploited, and oppressed.

Yashua (Gk. Jesus) was a revolutionary who stood up against the roman government.  We should stand up, too for our women, children, and men in poverty, incarcerated, exploited, and oppressed.

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* Are you looking for a community that struggles for the liberation of the oppressed?
* Are you tired of the institutionalized, dogmatic church?
* Why does it seem you can never get ahead in this colonial/imperialist land?
* Why are our men and women incarcerated more than any other people?
* Why does our legal system operate against us, and not for us?
* Why do predatory merchants follow us around in the stores?
* Why are our women portrayed as ugly hoes rather than as beautiful women?
* Why is it that we do not know the history of our people?
* Why is it that with health care we still die early?
* Why are we forced into welfare?
* Why are so many of us impoverished?
* Why are our utility bills so high?
* Why is gentrification allowed against the impoverished?
* Why is the food in our supermarkets old and rotting?
* What gives police license to kill our men as they do and it is ruled justifiable?
* Why are we only respected for athleticism and musicianship?
* Why are our schools a place of law enforcement?

What are your questions, and how can we work together to develop some answers and transform our world? May the Creator–the Loving, Just, and Holy One–give us power to overturn the injustices. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:24
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Visit our church.

We will help you answer these questions.

Click flyer to download and print.

ARC gathers

SATURDAYS

11:00 AM TO NOON

in collaboration with

SELF-DETERMINATION SATURDAYS

AT SONGHAI CITY CULTURAL CENTER, 3117 MASTER STREET, 19121

10:30 AM to 7:00 PM

I used to think the ole’ time religion was one of passivity and miseducation, but I was wrong.  That religion of old that was manifested in spirituality and revolution is what is of interest to me.  African people’s faith stories are more than just turning the other cheek, but rather, they are a raising up of revolutionary action resulting in the underground railroad, courageous warring, and fearsome music and dance.  This is love . . . this is spirituality.

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