Greater Goodwill AME Church

06/01/2026

TEACHER APPRECIATION MONTH 📚🍎
 We did not forget about you 🍎📚The Greater Goodwill Brown/Rouse WMS
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We would like to thank all of our public school teachers for all that you do for our children. Your dedication, hard work, patience, and commitment to educating and inspiring future generations are truly appreciated. Thank you for the countless sacrifices you make and for the positive impact you have on the lives of our children every day.

We appreciate you all and celebrate you!
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Thank you, Mrs. Dionne Singleton, for the awesome job you did on our T-shirts! Your hard work, creativity, and attention to detail truly helped make them special. We appreciate the time and effort you put into making sure everything looked great.

Thank you for helping Greater Goodwill Brown/Rouse WMS look our best and for being a valued part of making our event a success! 💙👕✨

We appreciate you, Mrs. Dionne Singleton! 🙌🏾💕

05/31/2026

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Greater Goodwill AME WMS 5th Sunday Service Prophetess Edrina Bess...

05/26/2026

05/25/2026

What Memorial Day truly asks of us.

Before it became a federal holiday, before it became cookouts and long weekends, Memorial Day began with remembrance.

And one of the first Memorial Day observances happened on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina, led by newly freed Black men, women, and children.

A former race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp, where Union soldiers died and were buried in a mass grave. After emancipation, Black Charlestonians gave those soldiers a proper burial. They decorated their graves with flowers, sang, marched, prayed, and honored them as “Martyrs of the Race Course.”

That history touches me deeply. My family roots are in South Carolina, where this story began. And here in Harlem, Melba’s sits on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, named for a man who never let America forget the truth of what the Civil War was about.

As Douglass said, “We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the republic.”

So today, yes, we gather. Yes, we cook. Yes, we love on our families.

But we also remember.

Memorial Day is rooted in sacrifice, freedom, and the fight to make this country live up to its promise. And we honor that truth with clear eyes, full hearts, and deep gratitude.

05/18/2026