{"id":137905,"date":"2025-02-04T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=137905"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:05:04","slug":"members-of-the-clergy-welcome-new-pastor-at-mt-olive-ame-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=137905","title":{"rendered":"MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WELCOME NEW PASTOR AT MT. OLIVE AME CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137906\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-29-at-5.38.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-29-at-5.38.49-PM.png 430w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-29-at-5.38.49-PM-160x89.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WELCOME NEW PASTOR AT MT. OLIVE AME CHURCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Tampa has a new pastor. Last Sunday, a Meet and Greet Service was held to welcome Rev. Dr. Helen L. Johnson-Ford to the community. In addition to several clergy members and city officials in attendance, several of her sorority members of Alpha Kappa Alpha were present. Ministers from left to right, in front: Bishop Daran H. Mitchell, Evangelist Wanda Swift, Rev. Jacquelyn Bogen, Rev. Dr. Kenya Williams, Bertha M. Mitchell, Assistant to the Mayor; Rev. Dr. Anton G. Elwood, guest speaker, St. Phillip AME Church, Atlanta, GA; Rev. Dr. Helen L. Johnson-Ford, Pastor; Dr. Roderick Andrew Lee Ford, Esq., 1<sup>st<\/sup> Gentleman; Overseer Vicki Devine and Prophetess Shirley Bolden. On top row: Rev. Dr. Maurice Harvey, Rev. McRae Mangum, II, Rev. Briana Robinson-Franklin, Rev. Chiquita Washington and Rev. Jean Davis. (Photograph by Julia Jackson)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WELCOME NEW PASTOR AT MT. OLIVE AME CHURCH \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Tampa has a new pastor. Last Sunday, a Meet and Greet Service was held to welcome Rev. Dr. Helen L. Johnson-Ford to the community. In addition to several clergy members and city officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137907,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137905\/revisions\/137907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}