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October 17, 2011

Reformation Celebration Worship Service

 

7:00pm, Thursday, October 27, 2011

Living Grace Lutheran Church
1812 Cooledge Road
Tucker, GA 30084

 

  

The Reverend Emmanuel Grantson, PhD will be the preacher at the synod-wide Reformation Celebration worship service, hosted by Living Grace Lutheran Church in Tucker, GA, on Thursday, October 27, 2011.

 

The Reformation celebration is a joint effort of the Lutheran Theological Center in Atlanta (LTCA) and the Southeastern Synod. Bishop H. Julian Gordy and Pastor David Hardy, Senior Pastor at Living Grace, will preside at the service.

 

Dr. Grantson is pastor at St. Michael's Church, ELCA, in Mitchelvile, MD and is in his 10th year there. Born in Ghana, he is married with three children. He holds degrees in theology, including the Licentiate and diploma; and holds the masters degree from Christ Seminary -Seminex, St.Louis, MO and the PhD degree from the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, IL.

 

GrantsonPastor Grantson, keeps mission at the heart of his ministry and has served the ELCA in a number of different capacities: in addition to developing a new congregation and re-developing several others, he has served as a congregation youth director, campus minister at Howard University in ashington, DC and at Malcolm X and Kennedy King Coleges in Chicago. Grantson has been a pastor at three other Lutheran congregations.

 

Dr. Grantson is an accomplished Christian educator and has held teaching positions at Lewis University, Joliet, IL., McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He has studied and traveled extensively on the continents of Asia, Africa, in Europe and in South America. Pastor Grantson leads his congregation on mission trips every other year to western Africa. Dr Grantson has prepared a number of programs and resources for Christian education, especialy among African descent children.

 

Dr Grantson is known among Lutherans for his music gifts. He has composed a number of hymns including the wel ll known "That Priceless Grace," (ELW 59). He served as a liturgical consultant and music advisor for the ELCA African American worship resource, This Far By Faith. Typically worship services with Dr Grantson include liturgical dancers, special African Drums and libation rites.

 

While in Atlanta, Dr Grantson will also lead the Reformation Worship Celebration on behalf of the Lutheran Center on the campus at the Interdenominational Theological Center at its Thursday mid­day chapel and will host a discussion on the use of Afro-centric worship styles as outreach to African descent peoples.