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Coordinator Speaks Dr. Bebe Patten COGIC Scholars Fellowship COORDINATOR SPEAKS Volume 10, Issue 4 As the year 2012 winds down to a close, I want to take this time to November/December express my gratitude to all who have supported us through the year. It seems 2012 that it was only yesterday when, on the heels of an intellectually stimulating Society for Pentecostal Studies conference that Linda Neely invited me to Dates to Remember: work with her on what has now become the COGIC Scholars Fellowship. Since that time, there have been many changes. However, we have made some Founder’s Day very important strides since our inception. There have been many significant C.H. Mason Seminary people placed along our path who believed in what we were doing and gave Atlanta, GA us their blessing. With their assistance we have made significant contributions to scholarship within our denomination and the broader academy. With the Feb.25-28 current leadership team of Eric Williams, Glenda Goodson, Oscar Owens, Charles Hill and Eric Greaux we can truly say, “We’ve come this far by faith leaning on the Lord.” And we can’t turn around now for there are oncoming Society for Pentecostal scholars within our denomination depending on us. From this vantage point in Studies Meeting our history, the future looks brighter. Grace and peace. Seattle, Washington ***Dr. Raynard Smith March 21-23 sps-usa.org DR. BEBE PATTEN: A CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER Inside this issue: In fulfillment of our commitment to the larger Pentecostal body, I have invited Dr. Abraham Ruelas, to submit the lead article for this issue of the Dr. Bebe Patten 1-3 Advocate. Dr. Ruelas is the Professor of Communication and Behavior Psychology currently serving as Dean at the Patten University in Oakland, AIM 2013 California and recent author of the biography on Dr. Bebe Patten, entitled,No Call for Papers 3 Room for Doubt: The Life and Ministry of Bebe Patten published by Seymour Press. COGIC Authors 3 Having graduated from L.I.F.E. Bible College in 1933 at the age of 19, Bebe Patten, nee Willa Bebe Harrison, was assigned as the Foursquare State Book Review 5-6 Evangelist to Tennessee. Using the moniker of “girl evangelist” for promotion, she became a successful tent evangelist, and because she was Book Announcement 6 ministering in the South, her tent revivals were segregated events – attended by Whites, with African American listening in from the outside. What Are COGIC Little is known of her racial attitudes during this time, but the marriage Scholars Doing 7 to her second husband Carl Patten, a Tennessean, had an important influence on her. Because Carl’s duties during the tent services included making sure the New Members 8 tent pegs remained in place, he had plenty of opportunity to witness African Americans, eager to hear the Gospel but restricted to experiencing the manifestations of God’s Spirit by listening from outside the tent fabric. This caused Carl to confront his own Southern-bred racism and change his views. While Bebe’s focus had been the gender battle – ministering in a male Page 1 of 8 dominated profession that Harry Reid in Washington DC feelings and emotions.”2 denied the validity of women on July 27, 2012 along with Dr. Martin Luther King ministers – Carl help Bebe other surviving members of the was in the midst of the planning expand the vista of her battle to Montfort Point Marines. for the Poor People’s Campaign include the fight for racial As a Pentecostal, Bebe’s when he was struck down by an equality. However, it would not focus in ministry remained assassin’s bullet in April of be until Bebe’s ministry led her evangelism and the 1968. Bebe, her daughters to the West Coast, that she manifestation of God’s power, Priscilla and Rebecca, and her would find a venue where she both in church services and in son Tom along with members could fully exercise her views the lives of Christians called to of the Patten community family of racial egalitarianism. reach the world for the Gospel. traveled to Atlanta to attend the A 19-week revival in Within the institutions she funeral. Following the funeral 1944 in the city of Oakland, founded, personal piety and Bebe had the opportunity to California, led to the birth of ability to carry out one’s personally offer her Oakland Bible Institute (OBI). responsibilities were what condolences to Coretta King in From the beginning, the mattered, and not the color of person at King’s home. attendees at her revival and the one’s skin. With the changing The 1968 May-June students who enrolled in OBI demographics of Oakland, so issue of The Trumpet Call a were from various races. Bebe changed the demographics of sermon preached in Christian soon organized the Flying Choir the Academy of Christian Cathedral entitled, “Let Girls (FCG), a group of over 40 Education (now which included Freedom Ring.” In it she paid young women who sang at her middle school), and the school’s tribute to Martin Luther King, evangelistic services in population became increasingly Jr. for his non-violence activism Oakland, in cities on the West African American. The school’s against racial inequality. Bebe Coast and in Canada. From the principal became alarmed at also made her own appeal for beginning the FCG was this shift and expressed his equality – “The color of our integrated as Jean Chapman and views to Bebe who promptly skin has nothing to do with the her sister Myra Williams, both fired him. way our heart beats. It has African Americans, were part of A front-page article in nothing to do with our minds that choir. The Trumpet Call was and our souls. No! All people As many of the students headlined, “The Blood of All are free. If not, they should be. who enrolled at OBI were People is Red.” 1 Using And here in America, many World War II veterans who put Revelation 5:9-10, Bebe have fought for this freedom.”3 high school graduation on hold emphasized that Christ’s blood Ralph Abernathy and to fight in the war, there was a redeemed “every kindred and other Civil Rights leaders need to help them finish their tongue, and people, and proceeded with the plans to take high school education. Thus, nation,” and that medically, the the Poor People’s Campaign the Academy of Christian color of everyone’s blood is (PPC) to Washington, D.C. In Education was also founded red. Why then should there be the Bay Area, Ralph Abernathy and its student body was discrimination? Although she joined with Al Alyin of the integrated as well. When the did not agree with all the tactics American Friend’s Service campus community formalized being used by civil rights Committee, Jesse Jackson of Christian Temple, the campus activists during the 1960s, she Operation Breadbasket, Bobby church, in 1950, its services wrote, “but I wonder, if I were Seale of the Black Panthers, were also multi-racial. By the numbered with this group, after Reyes Tijerina of the Alianza late 1950’s, Rev. Wortham all these centuries of being Federal de Mercedes, in Fears, an African American and pushed down, disregarded, cast organizing a rally in the a graduate of the school Bebe aside – I wonder if I had not Oakland Auditorium on May 15 founded, was appointed an joined that number in an to drum up support for the Poor assistant minister. Fears was a explosive manifestation of my People’s Campaign. Bebe not member of the Montfort Point Marines, the first group of African Americans to serve in 2 Bebe Patten, “The Blood of All People the Marines. He was presented Is Red!” The Trumpet Call, January 1968, a Congressional Gold Medal by Volume XVII. Number 1, 1. House Speaker John Boehner 1 Bebe Patten, “The Blood of All People 3 Bebe Patten, “Let Freedom Ring,” The and Senate Majority Leader Is Red!” The Trumpet Call, January 1968, Trumpet Call, May-June 1968, Volume Volume XVII. Number 1, 1. XVII. Number 5-6, 5. Page 2 of 8 only attended the meeting to a manner consistent with she came across an ad in the lend her support but was also Martin Luther King’s dream – paper that asked, “Are you on the dais with the organizers the “content of one’s character” looking for money?” Bebe of the campaign. She was one was the litmus test and not the called the contact phone of the few White people in color of one’s skin. In sermons number; she was connected attendance at the event. she would at times tell the with a Jewish money broker Bebe Patten’s activism congregation that if they had who brought in a local African in the Civil Rights movement problems with people of American businessman who consisted mainly of leading the another race or color, they made the loan to Bebe’s church institutions she had founded – should remember that the so that the sanctuary could be Oakland Bible Institute (now Christian Cathedral sanctuary in built. The schools and church Patten University), Academy of which they sat was the result of Bebe founded were examples of Christian Education (now the efforts of a Jew and an racial diversity before that goal Patten Academy of Christian African American. When Bebe became a reality in other Education), Christian Temple was looking for a way to segments of society. (now Christian Cathedral, and finance the building of the the Christian Evangelical church building that would Churches of America, Inc.
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