THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH COMMUNITY SPONSORING A FORUM AND FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY ON PROBLEMS OF MEDICAL CARE ATTHE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL *********************************************** GRANT MEMORIAL A.M.E. CHURCH 4017 S. Drexel Boulevard FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1978 AT 7 P.M. Rev. Basil A. Foley Rev. Roy L. Miller President, Alliance Host Pastor Bishop Hubert N. Robinson Fourth Episcopal District PROGRAMME ~ MASTER OF CEREMONIES ............................................ Rev. Paul Turner Presiding Elder, (A.M.E.} INVOCATION .................................................. Rev. Kenneth B. Smith Pastor Good Shepherd (Congreg~tional} WELCOME TO THE FORUM ...........................................Rev. Basil A. Foley President A.M.E. Ministerial Alliance GREETINGS ...................................................... (Three minutes each) Commissioner John Stroger Chairman Hospital Committee Cook County Board of Commissioners* Senator Richard Newhouse Illinois State Legislature Commis~ioner Cecil A. Partee City of Chicago Department of Human Services** CONTINUING PROBLEMS AT COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL (Concerns of the Church Community) (Five minutes each) Rev. Morris H. Tynes Pastor - Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Father George H. Clements Pastor - Holy Angels (Catholic) Rev. Charles S. Spivey Pastor- Quinn Chapel (A.M.E.) MUSIC ...........................................Woodlawn A.M.E. Church - Gospel Choir Mr. Joseph Nichols · Director * Representing President George Dunne & Commissioners of the Cook County Board. ** Appreciation is extended to Commissioner Partee & the Department of Human Services for help and encourgement. ---- Programme Continued ---- CONCERNS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS Leon Finney President Woodlawn Organization (Five minutes) Jasper F. Williams, M. D. Board Member Williams Clinic & Seaway Bank Past President National Medical Association (7 0 minutes) "REPORT TO THE PEOPLE" Charles A. Davis, Chairman Cook County Hospitals Governing Commission WAYS IN WHICH THE COMMUNITY CAN GIVE BETTER SUPPORT TO HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR James A. Houghton, M. D. Executive Director Governing Commission QUESTION - ANSWER PERIOD (15 MINUTES) MUSIC .............................. .......... ; .............. Grant's Men of Harmony Leo Harrris - Director PRESENTATIONS ................................ ............... Dr. Arnita Y. Boswell Founder League of Black Women Mrs. Lucille S. Thomas Vice President Women's Missiona(v Society AME Church RESPONSE ............................... ................. .. Bishop Hubert N. Robinson BENEDICTION ................... ..................................... Rev. Wilfred Reid Pastor- St. Stephens A.M.E. (Chicago Westside} ****FELLOWSHIP & REFRESHMENTS - EDUCATIONAL ANNEX**** SPECIAL GUESTS OF HONOR HEALTH AND HOSPITALS GOVERNING COMMISSION OF COOK COUNTY Commission: Charles A. Davis, Chairman; John W. B.Hadley, Secretary; Felipe Ayala;Mrs. W. Miles Burns; Mrs. Sybille C. Fritzsche; Ellsworth E. Hasbrouck, M.D.; Charles A. Hayes; George Hill; John D. Saletta, M.D.; Edward A. Tyler, M.D. Executive Director: James G. Haughton, M.D. COMMITTEES General Program Co-Chairmen Rev. Paul Turner, presiding Elder (AME) Earl E. Fredrick, Sr. Trustee (Woodlawn AME Church) Coordinator Leonidas H. Berry, M.D . General Officer Emeritus (Medical Director) AME Church Entertainment Rev. Roy L. Miller, Chairman, Pastor Grant AME Church Mrs. Donia Cousin, (Cateress) Grant Church Ursher Board - Grant Church COOPERATING CHURCHES· PASTORS- LAYMEN Allen Temple (AME) - Rev. W. D. Davis Antio_ch .(Baptist) - Rev . W.N . Daniels Arnett (AME) - Rev . U. R. Keys Bethel (AME)· Rev . D. C. Coleman Canaan (AME) - Rev. B. Ramsey Carey Temple (AME) - Rev. J.E. Foster Carey Tercentenary (AME) - Rev. 0 . L. Powell Coppin Chapel (AME) - Rev. J. H. Mayo Cosmopolitan (Community) - Rev. Henry 0. Hardy Ebenezer (AME) - Rev . McKinley Young Ebenezer (Baptist) · Rev. Frank K. Sims First Chu rch of Deliverance - Rev . Clarence H. Cobbs Good Shepherd (Congregational) - Rev. Kenneth B. Smith Holy Angels (Catholic) - Father George H. Clements Institutional (AME) - Rev. Jesse Cotton Liberty (Baptist) - Rev. A. Patterson Jackson Metropolitan (Community) - Rev. Theodore Richardson Mt. Moriah (Baptist) - Rev. Morris Tynes Mt. Olive (AME) - Rev. M. F. Southern Progressive (Community)·- Rev. William Knighten Quinn Chapel (AME) - Rev. Charles S. Spivey St. Andrews (Baptist) - Rev. A. R. Leake St. James (AME) - William L. Johnson St. John (AME) - Rev . C. Hayes St. John (Baptist) - Rev. William A. Johnson St. Mary 's (AME) - Rev. W. G. Oliney St. Matthews (AME) - Rev. A. I. Dunlap St. Stephens (AME) - Rev . Wilfred Reid Woodlawn (AME) - Rev. Basil A. Foley Rev. E. A. Hawkins - Presiding Elder (AME) Roland Ingram - Layman (AME) Mrs. Alicia Hodges · Layman (AME) Robert Smith · Layman (AME) "AFRICAN METHODISM AND COMMUNITY HEALTH" The African Methodist Episcopal Church was not organized in Africa! This Church is a true offspring of Methodism with roots in the Wesleyan Christian movement of England and America, in the 18th Century. It was in the year 1787 while the Constitutional Convention was in session at Philadelphia that the AME Church was born; born around the corner from Constitutional Hall · at the corner of Sixth and Lombard streets. Just as the American Democracy had its conception and birth amid political and social turmoil in England and America, so African Methodism had its conception and birth as the result of religious turmoil in England and America. Bishop Asbury brought Wesleyan ism to America and established the St. Georges Methodist Church in Philadelphia. It was not very long before the so called "African" members were required to worship only in the. gallery! When Richard Allen was lifted from his knees while in the ac·t of prayer to be escorted to his "proper" place, he led the "African "members out of St. Georges Church in the first non-violent protest against racial segregation in America. The first African Methodist Episcopal Church was then established in a black-smith shop and named "Bethel,,, one year before George Washington was elected president of the United States. The AME church still owns the original property which is the site of the fourth structure of "Mother Bethel", now an official historical shrine in the birth place of the Nation. This property is the oldest piece of real estate continuously owned by an Afro-American titleholder. Today, approximately 200 years later, the followers of Allen, nearly 2 million strong, worship their God and serve their communities in nearly all of the United States, provinces in Canada, countries in South America, Islands of the Carribean, West, Central and South Africa. It is historically fitting that the Church of Bishop Richard Allen should sponsor this Forum on Health Awareness & Opportunity for the Poor with interdenominational support. Rev. ·Richard Allen and Absolom Jones organized the "African Free Society•• primarily with Bethel members. They gave much of the medical care and buried the dead during America's greatest Yellow Fever epidemic, in the year 1793. Having been taught "blood - letting,, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Allen "bled,, 250 fever victims. The "African brethern" were highly praised by Dr. Rush and cited for their valour and dedicated service by Mayor Clarkson. Together our forebears conquered Yellow Fever. Let us together conquer today's politics and bigotry in medical care, so that the dreams of Rev. Richard Allen and Dr. Benjamin Rush may become a more meaningful reality in our times. -L.H.B +Typeset & printed by the Department of Human Services, Word-Processing Center/Reprographics Unit .