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Heart of Africa Fellowship
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
(Galatians 3:28, NRSV)
We rejoice that you are here to experience the love and diversity of God’s creation. Here at Heart of Africa, Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, we grow together as we continue to love all people into a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Grace and Peace,
Rev. Kalaba Chali
What Is the Heart of Africa Fellowship?
The Heart of Africa Fellowship is a place where you will experience God’s love, meet sisters and brothers from all over the world. If you are interested to fellowship within a diverse community where diversity is not a negative thing rather celebrated as God’s richness and gift, or you are interested to trying new ways of worshiping, praising and glorifying God, this is the place for you.
Worship service
Our worship service is conducted in English because there are many countries represented in the Heart of Africa. Currently, our membership includes worshipers from America (USA), Burundi, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In our fellowship, everybody is a worshipper/participant. We sing music from different African countries and beyond the continent of Africa. We meet every Sunday at 11:00 am in Asbury Hall 102 for worship and fellowship.
Our humble beginning
For several years, African brothers and sisters have been making Lovers Lane United Methodist Church their home church, helping the church to better reflect the whole family of God. Our senior pastor, Rev. Dr. Copeland, sensed the quickening of the Spirit and developed a vision to reach out to the growing Africa community in the Dallas Metroplex and beyond.
In March 2003, people from East, West, Central and Southern African regions began gathering at Lovers Lane UMC for fellowship every Sunday. The focus of worship was to fellowship with one another, pray for one another’s families, our African countries and the world at large, and study the scripture in order to grow in the love of God manifested in Jesus Christ.
When we began to meet for Sunday fellowship, God provided us with four student pastors who were attending Perkins School of Theology, SMU, these student pastors became our worship leaders. These leaders consolidated our unity (not uniformity), being from the countries of Angola (Albano Tayengo), Kenya (David Impwi), Nigeria (Effiong Esedeke) and Uganda (Fred Bamulutira).
News
We are so glad to welcome Rev. Kalaba Chali as our pastor in the Heart of Africa Fellowship. Rev. Chali began working with the Heart of Africa Fellowship on the first of September, 2007.
Contact information
For more information call 214-706-9536 or email Rev. Kalaba Chali: kchali@llumc.org, pastor of Heart of Africa.
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