One
goal of the Wo'se Community Church website is to share our basic beliefs
and practices with visitors and members alike.
We
are a spiritual community seeking to reestablish, from the great legacy of our
ancient ancestors, the meaning, direction, and purpose of our sacred African way.
Wo'se
Community Church is a place where Africa-centered ideas are discussed and
taught in order to return our lives to the path of divinity, dignity and service,
a path traveled by every independent African community throughout history.
Sustained
upon the strength and determination of our fore parents, who suffered and survived
the torment of the "middle-passage," the scourge of enslavement and
colonialism, and terrorizing lynch mobs; tempered
by genocidal, institutionalized social, political, and economic ostracization
of so called modern civilization, Wo'se
Community Church
forges ahead
nurtured by an active movement to reconstruct the traditions that emerged from
our distant past on the pristine banks of the ancient Nile Valley.
We
believe that the sprit of Almighty God has called our people to struggle for and
create a better way, a better life, a better future for our children, and ultimately
for all of humanity.
Wo'se
Community Church is born of the spirit that led Ptah Hotep, Queen Nzinga,
Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Martin Delaney, Ida B. Wells Bamett, Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) and countless others to
know and live God's truth.
We
seek to reach our highest human potential though service to our community.
Our
shared experiences here at Wo'se Community Church lead us to embrace certain
concepts, terms, and practices as we pursue Self-Knowledge and salvation, individually
and collectively, by the will of The Creator.
With
this website, we hope to offer a glimpse into the richness that is the African
tradition, which we hold sacred.
We
dedicate these pages to our members who have become ancestors and who continue
to inspire our movement.
We
invite you to join us in our worship and work!
Hotep!
Acknowledgements
for this website
