Greater Ebenezer AME Church- RVA

04/19/2026

Good morning GEAMEC family! See you in a bit for Sunday morning service. Dont forget to come back for our Women’s Day Service this afternoon at 3:00 PM! Dress in your church best for our throwback Sunday! We are having church TODAY! 🙌🏾🩷💜

04/12/2026

Are you feeling churchy? Ladies, pull out your big hats, heels and pearls. Gentlemen, polish your Stacy Adams. Come on out on Sunday. April 19th at 3:00PM to witness a phenomenal Women’s Day Celebration 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 The mighty woman of GOD, Shamara B. Haynes and Greater Joy Community will be in the building 🙏🏾

🗣️ Spread the word! You are cordially invited to share with us on Women’s Day 2026! Tell a friend and bring many 🌸🌸🌸

04/12/2026

Hey girl! Wyd on Saturday? Nothing. Cool. Come out for our session on “Breaking Cycles. Building Circles.” It will change your life. 🙏🏾

Women’s Weekend 2026! Spread the word!

04/07/2026

Women’s Weekend 2026! Spread the word!

04/05/2026

“In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:” Luke‬ ‭24‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Happy Resurrection Sunday 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

04/03/2026

Good Friday blessings GEAMEC family 💜🕊️🙌🏾

The 7 Last Words of Jesus Christ:

1. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)
2. “Today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)
3. “Woman, behold your son!” (John 19:26)
4. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
5. “I thirst.” (John 19:28)
6. “It is finished!” (John 19:30)
7. “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46)

03/29/2026

🗣️ Spread the word! You are cordially invited to share with us on Women’s Day 2026! Tell a friend and bring many 🌸🌸🌸

03/29/2026

Happy Palm Sunday 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

03/08/2026

Happy Saturday! Don’t forget time springs ahead 1 hour!

02/25/2026

What a wonderful Wednesday morning 🙌🏾

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026
CHOOSING SURRENDER AND WITHHOLDING NOTHING
PROVERBS 3:27-32

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.� Proverbs 3:27 NRSV

Lent is a season of surrender. A time to release our grip on anything that competes with our obedience to God. Proverbs calls us to a life that withholds nothing: not goodness, not integrity, not peace, and not trust.
This single verse confronts a quiet struggle of the human heart, the temptation to withhold goodness from ones we believe undeserving. And so, we often persuade ourselves that surrender can wait, and generosity can be postponed. Yet Lent reminds us that delayed obedience is still resistance. And choosing surrender is to release control and respond when the Holy Spirit directs us and not when it is convenient.
Proverbs makes a request, that we examine our inner motives, and calls us to surrender not only what we give, but also what we refuse to let go. Choosing surrender positions us to lay aside attitudes and actions that do not reflect God’s character. And it opens our hearts to live freely, withholding nothing.
Proverbs assures that those who surrender fully, who withhold nothing from their neighbor and God, are invited into deeper relationship with God. Because in giving up, we gain; in surrendering, we are strengthened; and in withholding nothing, we align with the heart of God. During this season of Lent, ask yourself, what is God inviting me to surrender completely? Withholding nothing, from others and especially from the One who has already given us everything.

PRAYER: Father, help us to surrender. To remove our desire to withhold that which is good. Help us to trust you fully, to live in obedience and to withhold nothing. Shape us into vessels who reflect your goodness and spirit of giving. AMEN.

Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Peters

02/25/2026

Happy Tuesday!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2026
FREE YOUR MIND
ROMANS 15:1-17

May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus… Romans 15:5 NRSV

“Free Your Mind”, the 1990s R&B anthem by En Vogue, carried a refrain that became a cultural call to action: “Free your mind and the rest will follow”. It challenged listeners to liberate themselves from societal prejudices, suggesting that internal liberation of one’s mind leads to an external change, that “the rest” will follow.
While the song challenged listeners to look beyond the surface and acknowledge the humanity of others, it never named the source for the mind’s renewal or the realm into which “the rest” will follow. Romans 15:1-17 provides the framework. Paul moves us beyond human “will power” and offers a radical replacement, the mind of Christ, received not for self-improvement, but for the strengthening of others.
I face this choice daily, especially during Lent, to either embrace the mind of Christ or drift into the idle distractions of the day, including the endless cycle of “mindless doom scrolling”. If an idle mind is indeed the devil’s playground, then Paul’s words serve as a necessary detox and a holy disruption pulling us away from the breeding ground of temptation and toward a life of purpose and clarity.
Paul calls the strong to support the weak (v. 1-6), practicing a unity rooted in selflessness and following Christ’s sacrificial example. In this unity, we learn to hope together and praise God with one voice (v. 7-13), accepting one another as Christ accepted us. This is the true “rest” that follows, not a digital audience of judging “followers”, but a unified body of believers becoming a holy offering, sanctified by the Spirit and glorifying God (v. 14-17).
When we truly free our minds in Christ, “the rest” that follows is the shared presence of Christ over the performative platform of posting pleasure, or the willpower of self-actualization.

PRAYER: Father, transform our willpower into your divine power. May the “rest” that follows be the unity that brings you Glory. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.

Mrs. Alisha Marriott