Doing Good In The Hood

Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr: has risen from a storefront preacher to a world stage of evangelism. He struggles through life without the love of a father; yet he has become a spiritual father to thousands. With the same exuberance in which he once preached to seven people, his messages of hope now reach millions. While other churches flee the ghetto for the affluent suburbs, he proudly affirms his congregation "as the church in the hood that will do you good," and extols his congregants in a mission to "rise up and build." As he continues to plant churches worldwide, he still walks humbly, loves deeply and has surrendered all to the Gospel. As a local pastor and "son" of Pastor William Seymour, Bishop Brumfield Johnson and Bishop Harold Ivory Williams, Bishop Alfred Owens has combined spiritual fervor and seminary training to build one of the nation's most effective Pentecostal institutions.

Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr: has risen from a storefront preacher to a world stage of evangelism. He struggles through life without the love of a father; yet he has become a spiritual father to thousands. With the same exuberance in which he once preached to seven people, his messages of hope now reach millions. While other churches flee the ghetto for the affluent suburbs, he proudly affirms his congregation "as the church in the hood that will do you good," and extols his congregants in a mission to "rise up and build." As he continues to plant churches worldwide, he still walks humbly, loves deeply and has surrendered all to the Gospel. As a local pastor and "son" of Pastor William Seymour, Bishop Brumfield Johnson and Bishop Harold Ivory Williams, Bishop Alfred Owens has combined spiritual fervor and seminary training to build one of the nation's most effective Pentecostal institutions.

The Reverend Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds is an award-winning journalist and author of five books: Jesse Jackson, The Man, the Movement & the Myth, which was updated as Jesse Jackson, America's David, And Still We Rise: Interviews with 50 Role Models, No I Won't Shut Up: 30 Years of Telling It Like It Is and Out of Hell & Living Well: Healing From the Inside Out. She is heard every weekend on XM satellite radio on her signature show, "Reynolds Rap." She is the religion columnist for the National Newspaper Publishers Association that has an estimated audience of 10 million people weekly. In 2005, she was the Convocation Speaker for the Howard University School of Divinity, where she teaches prophetic ministry. In 2006, she was named a Commissioner on the Katrina Truth and Justice Commission, and a panel of religious and civic leaders who conducted hearings on the events unfolding from the tragic hurricane. She was also the first women to be arrested and jailed while protesting in front of the Embassy of Sudan in Washington DC against the genocide in Darfur. She is the mother of one son, John Eric Reynolds, a recent graduate of the University of Maryland.