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Our message today is from

F. Douglas Powe Jr.
"A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES "

Please read bio.
Service starts @ 11am.

02/05/2026

1963 was the year Fannie Lou Hamer learned how far America would go to punish a Black woman for wanting a voice.

She was 46 years old.
A sharecropper from Ruleville, Mississippi.
Poor. Unarmed. Determined.

In the summer of 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), traveling through Mississippi encouraging Black citizens to register to vote. It was dangerous work. Everyone knew it. Mississippi did not forgive people who challenged its rules.

Still, she went.

On June 9, 1963, after attending a voter education workshop in Charleston, Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer and several other activists were arrested on false charges and taken to the Winona city jail.

That night, the law became a weapon.

Police ordered two incarcerated men to beat her with blackjacks. They beat her until her body gave out. When one man grew tired, another took his place. Guards watched. They listened. They did nothing.

She nearly died.

Her kidneys were permanently damaged.
Blood clots formed.
Her vision and mobility were affected for the rest of her life.

But the beating did not end her work.

When she was released, Fannie Lou Hamer returned to organizing with a body in pain and a voice sharpened by survival. She spoke openly about what had been done to her naming names, naming places, refusing to hide the brutality behind euphemisms.

In 1963, Mississippi tried to silence her with fists and fear.

Instead, it created a witness.

That beating became a turning point. It transformed Fannie Lou Hamer from a local organizer into a national symbol of the violence used to block Black political power. Her testimony would later help expose the lie of “law and order” in the Jim Crow South.

She did not retreat.
She did not soften the truth.
She carried her scars into every room that would hear her.

1963 did not break Fannie Lou Hamer.

It revealed her.

And through her pain, America was forced however briefly to look at itself.


#1963

02/01/2026

Good Morning Pine Street Family!
Our message today will be delivered by the Oklahoma Disciples of Christ, Christian Church Regional Minister Rev. Michael Davison.

Prior to his ministry in Oklahoma, he served as Associate Regional Minister in Kentucky, interim ministry in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as in associate ministry in Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas.

Michael is a graduate of Texas Christian University and received his M. Div. at Brite Divinity School. He was ordained into Christian Ministry at First Christian Church Lubbock, TX in November 1991. Michael is married to Rev. Dr. Lisa Davison, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa.

Today's message is entitled
"THE MINIMUM"

01/25/2026

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbOfrpdXDIWIQP6nqLAX1ZTftDsmyoga/view