by The Reverend Dr. Rebecca R. Rivka
“Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord His God out of the fish’s belly,
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
by The Reverend Dr. Rebecca R. Rivka
“And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
By Rev. Dr. Rebecca R. Rivka
“And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?”
By Rev. Dr. Rebecca R. Rivka
“Our Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
O the hope of Israel, the saviour, thereof in time of trouble, why shoudest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
By Reverend Dr. Rebecca R. Rivka
The Reverend Emanuel Hezekiah Terrell, Jr., will retire from the pastoral ministry of the historic New Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Virginia Annual Conference, convening May 1-3, 2013 in Newport News, Virginia at The Marriott City Center.