March 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Good News with Twanda Black welcomes Dr. Carmella Scott. Dr. Scott, awarded one of the top ten teachers in the Country by Reader's Digest, among other numerous awards; married to Pastor and attorney Cornelius Scott; the marriage brought forth a son, daughter, five grandchildren, and one blue-eyed great- granddaughter; retired and serving as First Lady of Macedonia AME Church in Rex, Georgia.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Thank you for joining me today on Good News with
Twinda Black. We're we are discovering some of the most
inspiring trials to triumph stories and empowerment moments. Call up
a friend and let them know it's time for some
good news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome to good News, where we talk with folks from
all walks of life about their good news because we
celebrate when our brothers and sisters are successful. Sit back,
relax and enjoy my next guest. I'm Tunda Black, your host,
So everybody please welcome first Lady of Macedonia AMI Church
(00:52):
in Rex, Georgia, doctor Carmela Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How are you today? Oh I'm very well. Thank you
so much for having me. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Let me tell everybody how I met you. You are
you're the first lady at my brother's church, so we
get to fellowship a little bit sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And I always admire how you dress. Your very classic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Gloves, hats, you know, nice dress, nice suits, always look
so pretty. I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's so kind, so much, you're so kind.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Look, tell everybody about your background, where you came from.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
How did you end up first lady? Tell us all
about it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh, certainly, I was born in Washington, d C. I
was raised in the ghetto in Philadelphia, and which is
what my book is all about. But we'll get to
that later. I met my husband in college. We went
to undergrad school at Temple University, where we were both
majoring in education. We were teachers, and we moved after
(01:58):
we got married. We moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where we
got our master I got my master's, he got his master's.
I got my doctorate, he got his law the degree.
Then I went on and got a law degree during
the j trials because I thought it would be cool.
But we were both in the school system here in Atlanta, Georgia,
(02:19):
and he went on to become a principal. I became
a vice principal, and we stayed in the school system
for about thirty years. And then he continued with the
law degree. But I continue just doing all the things
that I wanted to do. I do oil painting, I
played the piano. I've traveled all over the world. I
am very active in the church, and I guess I
(02:41):
consider myself a philanthropist. I like helping people who need
help because I remember the times when I was young
and I needed help and I needed help from people
who weren't looking for something in return. And you know
what I'm talking right, right, And that's the kind of
person that I am. Whenever I help somebody, I don't
want anything in return. I just want you to thank
(03:03):
God that he sent somebody your way to help.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Right, That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know. I think about the times for me as
a single mom and now, you know, being here where
I am now and I see the different organizations and
see people helping, and I said, wow, I.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Sure wish that was around when I was, you know,
going through my time.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah. Absolutely, So it's always every thing to be a blessing, right.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A blessing is a blessing. And I remember when I
was coming up, there was an organization I think I
forgot the name of it, but it provided full time,
full scholarships for higher graduates who lived in the ghetto.
And I happened to qualify. So from that blessing, I
(03:49):
was able to go to undergraduate school free of charge
four years. Wow. It was just blessings beyond blessings that
have come my way in just thank God for them.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So did Pastor Scott did he always want to be
a pastor or what happened there.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well. When we first met, we had never even thought
of even going to church. We first met. We were
in our early twenties when we got married, and we
were just thinking about staying in the school system and
just you know, just living the life that you live
in the school system. But things happen in life, and
(04:32):
it made us understand that there is something greater than
we are, and we need honoring that greater thing, which
is God, Jesus Christ. And so therefore we started doing
what we knew was right. We stopped doing the things
we knew were wrong and started doing good things we
knew were right, but we needed more. So what we
(04:55):
did was we found a church. We found a church
with a leader who was a leader that could be
trusted and a leader that manifested the attributes of God.
We followed him, We accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
and the rest is history. And this particular leader kept
(05:16):
pushing him into First he became a deacon, then he
became a pastor, and he's been pastoring for many years now.
And life is good.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
That is phenomenal. That is phenomenal. So I know that
you're hosting.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Atlanta East Districts Women's Missionary Society Conference in April.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
What is that going to be about at your church?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right, the Macedonia Am Church, which is located in Next, Georgia,
has been asked by its presiding Elder to host the
Atlanta East District Women's Missionary Conference and it's going to
be a wonderful thing. The Bishop and his wife will
be there in all of the missionaries all over the
East Atlanta East District. And it's at that event that
(06:09):
I will be selling my book called Church Folk. So
anybody who wants to come to that event, it's on
April twenty six, It's a Saturday at ten o'clock. It
will be at the church in Rex, Georgia. That's where
it's going to be held, and it's going to be
a great event.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're also starting a you're trying to develop or you've
already developed a literacy program.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, I am writing a grant for a family literacy program.
The target population is not just those who did not
finish school before their anticipated graduation date, but for anyone.
But the target population is basically our single mothers, because
(07:03):
they are a population that is doing all they can
to get what they need and sometimes are unable to
fall on significant others. So what I want to do
is provide an opportunity for them to pull themselves up
(07:24):
by getting a GED, which will lead to this, and
which will lead to that, and so that they can
do better somewhat on their own. Now, if some one
else comes along and helps them, that's fine, but I
want them to have a firm foundation, starting with getting
the GED, then helping them to get better housing. And
the Family Literacy Program includes the entire family. In this manner,
(07:48):
We're going to have the children in the family. We're
going to provide educational packets for the children in the
family and teach the parents how to teach the children,
because parents are basically a child's first teacher. If you
think about it, it wasn't miss Jones in first grade
who taught me how to tie my shoes. You know
(08:12):
missus Jackson in third grade who taught me how to
say thank you and please. So our parents, our parents
are very vital in our education, especially in the early stages.
So this Family Literacy Program will do that. It will
have parenting workshops, it will provide transportation and childcare to
(08:36):
the ged classes so that our young mothers won't have
an excuse. Oh I don't have anybody take the children.
You have a way to get there. So we're eliminating
all the excuses, and hopefully we can get a grant
written so that we can get this thing going into fruition.
We've got a wonderful area at the church with kitchen
and classrooms and it's just going to be really lovely.
(08:59):
If we can at this grant going on, it would
be great.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, I've been saying since this year started that
we as a community, as a people, we're gonna have
to help each other a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
More in these two years.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We really really absolutely yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So look, we we brought you on to talk about
this book church folks know, a story with a serious message.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah that it's a small book. You can read it
in thirty minutes. Twenty minutes, yees about thirty minutes. Yes, right,
So you promise to have I promise you will last
you will at least three times. At least three times.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So you started this book in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Talk about what the premise of the book is about.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, the premise of the book is it's about a
young woman who's unchurched, and she knows that this night
life that she's living is not the right life, so
she makes an effort to make a change. So one
day she gets up and she puts on her afro puffs.
She walks down the street and she finds this church
(10:11):
that has all these cars in the parking lot. So
she says to herself, this must be the place. And
the story just talks about her experiences first day as
a visitor at a church in the ghetto, and she
just trots every disease in the most hilarious way you
(10:32):
can imagine. But the serious part about the book is
the things that are going on in the church that
she describes are still going on right now.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You have a chapter in there about pastor in what
manner of man is he?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's the laugh outlived moments in this book right.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
In fact, that's the chapter that I read when I
have a book signing. The women love that chapter.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did you feel writing this? I
know some of it came from your experiences. Was it cathartic?
Was it funny?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Did you enjoy writing this book?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I loved writing this book. I was on it every day,
and little sayings that I heard people say on TV.
I would write and jot it down in my book
and somehow incorporated in the in the in the text,
and I just enjoyed it. In fact, my publisher said,
now it's time for you to going to get this
(11:36):
thing to the publishing company because I kept wanting to
edit and add more, and edit and add more. I
could have stayed on it another year if I wanted to,
but he said, just go in and just get published.
So that's what I did. Tell folks.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I know that they can come to your Women's Missionary
Society conference. But tell folks how they can find your book.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh, yes, it's on Amazon. They can go on Amazon. Now,
there are a few books called church Folk, So type
in church Folk by Scott and that cover that you
showed that one, that one will come up because there
are a couple of books entitled church Folks.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
This cover yet, Carmel.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Scott, doctor Scott.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, just just some funny things in the book.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You want to tell anything in particular, Uh, you know,
any section of this book?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Well, I kind of want people to read it, but
I will mention the one when I talk about church announcements,
and I talk about some of the things that I
remember and some things that I've read on the internet
about church announcements. And I think the funniest one to
me was the announcement was people who have children and
(12:53):
don't know it. There's a nursery downstairs, you know. So
it's just funny, just on a funny things that make
you people think, yeah, I've heard somebody misplaced a modifier
like that or whatever. And the thing about the book
is every character in the book, there's a character in
your church that fits then character in every church in
(13:18):
every church. I don't want to spoil it because it's
a short piece. So I'm hoping people will get it
off Amazon or come to the conference because it will
be on sale on April twenty sixth at the church
in Rex, Georgia.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Absolutely. Now, so we're wrapping up about the book.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Talk about your worship service, when is it, what's the
address of the church, Tell about your pastor if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
To, Oh, you want me to talk about my pastor
your pastor my baby.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, your honey, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The church is located in Rex, Georgia. That's in Clayton County.
It's at sixty two thirty five stage Coach Road. It's
a beautiful church. The inside is just gorgeous and the
congregation is the most loving, giving, caring congregation you ever
want to be part of. It's a friendly group of
(14:15):
people and extremely generous group of people. And we have
our worship services every Sunday at ten o'clock. We have
Sunday church school at nine o'clock, worship services at ten o'clock.
We have about thirty ministries in the church. We have
a Wellness Ministry of Rayat which stands for the Richard
(14:39):
Allen Council Young Adult Council. We have a YPD, we
have four choirs, we have the WMS, we have a
lay ministry, we have Sons of Allen. We have so
many and we have a nice website and the website
is m ac dot org and go on there find
(15:02):
all about all about us, all about our activities, all
about some of our events. We've gone on cruises, We've
done all kinds of things. We've had talent shows, we've
had fashion shows. We've had a women's conference at the church.
We have a deaconous bord have. We just have everything
a church should have. And this is under the leadership
(15:24):
of my husband, the Reverend Guineius B. Scott. And he
is a man that doesn't believe in sugarcoating the gospel.
He will call it as it I s is, and
you will do this according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
He doesn't add, he doesn't subtract, and he's not afraid
(15:47):
to give it to you whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's so easy going, you know when you need him.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
He's laid back. Yeah, but I tell you, And as
far as teaching teaching Bible studies, he teaches five Bible
studies a week. You know, someone zoom and of course
the Wednesday night Bible study at the church. But I
tell you that man can teach the wind how to
blow you hear me. He is just that great of
(16:18):
a teacher. His mother was an excellent teacher. She was
our supervisor of student teachers, which is how I met him.
She actually introduced me to him. But she's the only
one that I've ever seen that was a better teacher
than he was. But he's one of the best, he
really is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I love how supportive you are of your congregation, and
you're right, very loving, very loving congregation.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And remember this book.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Church Folk Doctor Carmela Scott, such a funny.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Little book and it really goes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Into the character of who you are, who you word,
and who you are today. So much for coming on
and just blessing us with the conversation.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thanks so much for having me, and may God bless
you too, Tawanda, thank you, Thank you so much. That
was an awesome conversation.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
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Speaker 2 (17:27):
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you
Thank you for joining me today on Good News with
Twinda Black. We're we are discovering some of the most
inspiring trials to triumph stories and empowerment moments. Call up
a friend and let them know it's time for some
good news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome to good News, where we talk with folks from
all walks of life about their good news because we
celebrate when our brothers and sisters are successful. Sit back,
relax and enjoy my next guest. I'm Tunda Black, your host,
So everybody please welcome first Lady of Macedonia AMI Church
(00:52):
in Rex, Georgia, doctor Carmela Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How are you today? Oh I'm very well. Thank you
so much for having me. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Let me tell everybody how I met you. You are
you're the first lady at my brother's church, so we
get to fellowship a little bit sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And I always admire how you dress. Your very classic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Gloves, hats, you know, nice dress, nice suits, always look
so pretty. I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's so kind, so much, you're so kind.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Look, tell everybody about your background, where you came from.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
How did you end up first lady? Tell us all
about it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh, certainly, I was born in Washington, d C. I
was raised in the ghetto in Philadelphia, and which is
what my book is all about. But we'll get to
that later. I met my husband in college. We went
to undergrad school at Temple University, where we were both
majoring in education. We were teachers, and we moved after
(01:58):
we got married. We moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where we
got our master I got my master's, he got his master's.
I got my doctorate, he got his law the degree.
Then I went on and got a law degree during
the j trials because I thought it would be cool.
But we were both in the school system here in Atlanta, Georgia,
(02:19):
and he went on to become a principal. I became
a vice principal, and we stayed in the school system
for about thirty years. And then he continued with the
law degree. But I continue just doing all the things
that I wanted to do. I do oil painting, I
played the piano. I've traveled all over the world. I
am very active in the church, and I guess I
(02:41):
consider myself a philanthropist. I like helping people who need
help because I remember the times when I was young
and I needed help and I needed help from people
who weren't looking for something in return. And you know
what I'm talking right, right, And that's the kind of
person that I am. Whenever I help somebody, I don't
want anything in return. I just want you to thank
(03:03):
God that he sent somebody your way to help.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Right, That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know. I think about the times for me as
a single mom and now, you know, being here where
I am now and I see the different organizations and
see people helping, and I said, wow, I.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Sure wish that was around when I was, you know,
going through my time.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah. Absolutely, So it's always every thing to be a blessing, right.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A blessing is a blessing. And I remember when I
was coming up, there was an organization I think I
forgot the name of it, but it provided full time,
full scholarships for higher graduates who lived in the ghetto.
And I happened to qualify. So from that blessing, I
(03:49):
was able to go to undergraduate school free of charge
four years. Wow. It was just blessings beyond blessings that
have come my way in just thank God for them.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So did Pastor Scott did he always want to be
a pastor or what happened there.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well. When we first met, we had never even thought
of even going to church. We first met. We were
in our early twenties when we got married, and we
were just thinking about staying in the school system and
just you know, just living the life that you live
in the school system. But things happen in life, and
(04:32):
it made us understand that there is something greater than
we are, and we need honoring that greater thing, which
is God, Jesus Christ. And so therefore we started doing
what we knew was right. We stopped doing the things
we knew were wrong and started doing good things we
knew were right, but we needed more. So what we
(04:55):
did was we found a church. We found a church
with a leader who was a leader that could be
trusted and a leader that manifested the attributes of God.
We followed him, We accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
and the rest is history. And this particular leader kept
(05:16):
pushing him into First he became a deacon, then he
became a pastor, and he's been pastoring for many years now.
And life is good.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
That is phenomenal. That is phenomenal. So I know that
you're hosting.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Atlanta East Districts Women's Missionary Society Conference in April.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
What is that going to be about at your church?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right, the Macedonia Am Church, which is located in Next, Georgia,
has been asked by its presiding Elder to host the
Atlanta East District Women's Missionary Conference and it's going to
be a wonderful thing. The Bishop and his wife will
be there in all of the missionaries all over the
East Atlanta East District. And it's at that event that
(06:09):
I will be selling my book called Church Folk. So
anybody who wants to come to that event, it's on
April twenty six, It's a Saturday at ten o'clock. It
will be at the church in Rex, Georgia. That's where
it's going to be held, and it's going to be
a great event.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're also starting a you're trying to develop or you've
already developed a literacy program.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, I am writing a grant for a family literacy program.
The target population is not just those who did not
finish school before their anticipated graduation date, but for anyone.
But the target population is basically our single mothers, because
(07:03):
they are a population that is doing all they can
to get what they need and sometimes are unable to
fall on significant others. So what I want to do
is provide an opportunity for them to pull themselves up
(07:24):
by getting a GED, which will lead to this, and
which will lead to that, and so that they can
do better somewhat on their own. Now, if some one
else comes along and helps them, that's fine, but I
want them to have a firm foundation, starting with getting
the GED, then helping them to get better housing. And
the Family Literacy Program includes the entire family. In this manner,
(07:48):
We're going to have the children in the family. We're
going to provide educational packets for the children in the
family and teach the parents how to teach the children,
because parents are basically a child's first teacher. If you
think about it, it wasn't miss Jones in first grade
who taught me how to tie my shoes. You know
(08:12):
missus Jackson in third grade who taught me how to
say thank you and please. So our parents, our parents
are very vital in our education, especially in the early stages.
So this Family Literacy Program will do that. It will
have parenting workshops, it will provide transportation and childcare to
(08:36):
the ged classes so that our young mothers won't have
an excuse. Oh I don't have anybody take the children.
You have a way to get there. So we're eliminating
all the excuses, and hopefully we can get a grant
written so that we can get this thing going into fruition.
We've got a wonderful area at the church with kitchen
and classrooms and it's just going to be really lovely.
(08:59):
If we can at this grant going on, it would
be great.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, I've been saying since this year started that
we as a community, as a people, we're gonna have
to help each other a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
More in these two years.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We really really absolutely yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So look, we we brought you on to talk about
this book church folks know, a story with a serious message.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah that it's a small book. You can read it
in thirty minutes. Twenty minutes, yees about thirty minutes. Yes, right,
So you promise to have I promise you will last
you will at least three times. At least three times.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
So you started this book in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Talk about what the premise of the book is about.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, the premise of the book is it's about a
young woman who's unchurched, and she knows that this night
life that she's living is not the right life, so
she makes an effort to make a change. So one
day she gets up and she puts on her afro puffs.
She walks down the street and she finds this church
(10:11):
that has all these cars in the parking lot. So
she says to herself, this must be the place. And
the story just talks about her experiences first day as
a visitor at a church in the ghetto, and she
just trots every disease in the most hilarious way you
(10:32):
can imagine. But the serious part about the book is
the things that are going on in the church that
she describes are still going on right now.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You have a chapter in there about pastor in what
manner of man is he?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's the laugh outlived moments in this book right.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
In fact, that's the chapter that I read when I
have a book signing. The women love that chapter.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did you feel writing this? I
know some of it came from your experiences. Was it cathartic?
Was it funny?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Did you enjoy writing this book?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I loved writing this book. I was on it every day,
and little sayings that I heard people say on TV.
I would write and jot it down in my book
and somehow incorporated in the in the in the text,
and I just enjoyed it. In fact, my publisher said,
now it's time for you to going to get this
(11:36):
thing to the publishing company because I kept wanting to
edit and add more, and edit and add more. I
could have stayed on it another year if I wanted to,
but he said, just go in and just get published.
So that's what I did. Tell folks.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I know that they can come to your Women's Missionary
Society conference. But tell folks how they can find your book.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh, yes, it's on Amazon. They can go on Amazon. Now,
there are a few books called church Folk, So type
in church Folk by Scott and that cover that you
showed that one, that one will come up because there
are a couple of books entitled church Folks.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
This cover yet, Carmel.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Scott, doctor Scott.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, just just some funny things in the book.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You want to tell anything in particular, Uh, you know,
any section of this book?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Well, I kind of want people to read it, but
I will mention the one when I talk about church announcements,
and I talk about some of the things that I
remember and some things that I've read on the internet
about church announcements. And I think the funniest one to
me was the announcement was people who have children and
(12:53):
don't know it. There's a nursery downstairs, you know. So
it's just funny, just on a funny things that make
you people think, yeah, I've heard somebody misplaced a modifier
like that or whatever. And the thing about the book
is every character in the book, there's a character in
your church that fits then character in every church in
(13:18):
every church. I don't want to spoil it because it's
a short piece. So I'm hoping people will get it
off Amazon or come to the conference because it will
be on sale on April twenty sixth at the church
in Rex, Georgia.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Absolutely. Now, so we're wrapping up about the book.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Talk about your worship service, when is it, what's the
address of the church, Tell about your pastor if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
To, Oh, you want me to talk about my pastor
your pastor my baby.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, your honey, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The church is located in Rex, Georgia. That's in Clayton County.
It's at sixty two thirty five stage Coach Road. It's
a beautiful church. The inside is just gorgeous and the
congregation is the most loving, giving, caring congregation you ever
want to be part of. It's a friendly group of
(14:15):
people and extremely generous group of people. And we have
our worship services every Sunday at ten o'clock. We have
Sunday church school at nine o'clock, worship services at ten o'clock.
We have about thirty ministries in the church. We have
a Wellness Ministry of Rayat which stands for the Richard
(14:39):
Allen Council Young Adult Council. We have a YPD, we
have four choirs, we have the WMS, we have a
lay ministry, we have Sons of Allen. We have so
many and we have a nice website and the website
is m ac dot org and go on there find
(15:02):
all about all about us, all about our activities, all
about some of our events. We've gone on cruises, We've
done all kinds of things. We've had talent shows, we've
had fashion shows. We've had a women's conference at the church.
We have a deaconous bord have. We just have everything
a church should have. And this is under the leadership
(15:24):
of my husband, the Reverend Guineius B. Scott. And he
is a man that doesn't believe in sugarcoating the gospel.
He will call it as it I s is, and
you will do this according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
He doesn't add, he doesn't subtract, and he's not afraid
(15:47):
to give it to you whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's so easy going, you know when you need him.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
He's laid back. Yeah, but I tell you, And as
far as teaching teaching Bible studies, he teaches five Bible
studies a week. You know, someone zoom and of course
the Wednesday night Bible study at the church. But I
tell you that man can teach the wind how to
blow you hear me. He is just that great of
(16:18):
a teacher. His mother was an excellent teacher. She was
our supervisor of student teachers, which is how I met him.
She actually introduced me to him. But she's the only
one that I've ever seen that was a better teacher
than he was. But he's one of the best, he
really is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I love how supportive you are of your congregation, and
you're right, very loving, very loving congregation.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And remember this book.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Church Folk Doctor Carmela Scott, such a funny.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Little book and it really goes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Into the character of who you are, who you word,
and who you are today. So much for coming on
and just blessing us with the conversation.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thanks so much for having me, and may God bless
you too, Tawanda, thank you, Thank you so much. That
was an awesome conversation.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
If you'd like to be a guest on the show,
you can reach out to us at good News at
thepgnetwork dot org.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You can catch a show on demand on pgntv dot
org all social media platforms.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
At good News with Tunda Black. I'll see you next
time with some good News. I'm Twunda Black. God bless
you
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