Pastor mike todd news update#
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AFRO endorsements for the 2022 midterm elections November 5, 2022.Help us Continue to tell OUR Story and join the AFRO family as a member –subscribers are now members! Join here! The church also donated $50,000 to the Terrance Crutcher Foundation, $50,000 to Build in Tusla, $100,000 to One Race Movement and $100,000 to Greenwood Cultural Center. This includes a $100,000 check to AJ Johnson, owner of Oasis Fresh Market, which provides fresh fruits and other groceries to an underserved community. Transformation Church gave away a total of $1 million to the massacre survivors and nonprofit organizations Sunday. “It’s reparations season, and change starts in the Church,” he declared to cheers. He said his church decided on giving the survivors $200,000 each after researching the median price of a house in Tulsa. But today, we can put a seed in the ground,” he told the survivors.
Today, we can’t restore everything that has been stolen from you. That couldn’t have happened if you all didn’t survive. “I’m a young black man who took over a church from a white man who built it in North Tulsa. “Thank you for appearing before Congress. “Thank you for living a life that survived the devastation,” Todd said. Todd then announced the presence of all three of the living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre - Viola Fletcher, 107 Hughes Van Ellis, 100 and Lessie Randle, 106. “I read in the Bible where it says God is the only one that gives beauty from ashes.” And you got to go to the fairgrounds and stay on cots and try to rebuild your life from ashes?’” he asked. And I said, ‘How in the world do you rebuild when you go to sleep on a Thursday, and on the Friday, all your memories, all your life savings, everything that you build your life for is in rubble in front of you. And I said the most devastating thing that was stolen from people were their homes.
I said, ‘Find me every living survivor that survived this massacre.’ And they began to search. “Reparations is not coming from them,” he said, referring to the government. And since he is a part of the Church, Todd said he has to be a part of the reparations process. He stressed that God will bring reparations and said God told him that the controversial process must start in the Church. He then quoted Joel 2:25, which says: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” ‘The action of repairing something that was devastated.’ Reparations mean that somebody is going to take up the mantle and actually put into action the process of repairing something that was destroyed.” “Let me give you the definition of reparations. Reparation is not a word that your left-wing friends or your right-wing friends have coined,” Todd said. It is one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. A white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, leaving hundreds dead and thousands homeless. The Tulsa Race Massacre, according to, occurred over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, 1921. Transformation Church Pastor Michael Todd in Bixby, Oklahoma, called on churches across America to take the lead on the issue of reparations as he presented $200,000 checks to each of the only living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre during a moving sermon on Sunday. | (Screenshot: Facebook/Transformation Church)īy Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter The survivors (seated from left to right) are Viola Fletcher, 107 Hughes Van Ellis, 100 and Lessie Randle, 106. Transformation Church Pastor Michael Todd (L) thanks the only three living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre for “surviving the devastation” of the riot on Sunday, June 20, 2021.
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