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BLACK EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN DEEP CRISIS: Parishes languish and half are served by part-time clergy.
“We black Episcopalians are no longer the flavor of the day. Whatever special rights and privileges we received, or we otherwise believed to be our just due, are no longer forthcoming,” Rev. Jacobs told the Northeast Regional Conference of the Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) at Roxbury Community College in Boston, recently.
In his keynote address titled “Where Do We Go From Here” Rev. Jacobs ripped the U.S. Episcopal Church saying there was a time when bishops declared that they would never dream of closing a black congregation.
Rev. Jacobs said that when his father began his ministry, in the diocese of Ohio in 1958, there were five financially viable black Episcopal churches in the dioceses. Today he reports that there is only one.
The main agenda, Rev. Jacobs said of the UBE in the 21st century must be to rebuild and restore black congregations. He said today’s black congregations have lost their way and with it their very sense of mission and purpose. There is no map he said.
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