A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland hosted by Dr. Frank A. Thomas
By Age of 12
Already sexually damaged
Sought Jesus
Began looking for Jesus even though I did not know it was Jesus I was looking for
Looking for something more
Classmate
Started harassing me about my salvation
Tormented me until I started to attend to the Sanctified Church
13/14 years old
Will of Jesus realized in my life
Sin
All sin I learnt in my life, I learned in Church
Claudette to Frank
Thank you for blowing the clean wind; I love you very much
15 years
Call to Ministry is simultaneous with Salvation
A life long Yes
Season in Life been called forward
There is something in your life, but God does not use women
we have to recognize that
Women called into Missionary Track
Trial Sermon
Women
Floor of Church as I could not go into the Pulpit
Mentor
Not afraid of women
Dangerous eye of women
Learned to duck
Learned to edit myself
Dr. Ellen Goodwin
4 feet tall
First took me to Haiti
hey may not like you but they cannot kill you
Ernestine Cleveland Timm???
Church of God in Christ
Oakland, CA
Was 12 years old at the time
Her baby was 2
Drunk men will stand and lay there bottle down
What do I have to do to know Jesus
Authentic connection to the unseen
But, God don’t use women
Remember that gentle, humble women
she always stayed on my shoulder
After Seminary
Every door shut
Meet Claudette
My ministry was worthy
Not afraid of the men
Validity of what God was doing in my life
Hide me message
Bible Verses
Collosians
Collosians 3:1-3
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Matthew 13:44
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
Hide me
For you are dead
Crisis
Intersection between danger and opporunity
Book
Crisis in Village
Family
Crisis of Commitment
Loving Bond between Man & Women
Lack of commitment
School
Colleges of Moral Purpose
Hard erosion of the gains our people made
Crisis of Mission
Not about the blood
Not much about the altar
Socially Relevant
Broken Conscience
Seek those things at above
Set affection in what is above
Public VS Private
Public
Theologian
City set above a hill
Ministry of Christian
Yes, ministry life and public expression of faith is supposed to be in public
Gifts used in public
Private
Private reality of your life
Do not banter away
Natural Growth
Stopped sunlight from coming in
Change chemistry of soil
Began killing Oak Tree
What grew naturally
Ego
Sexual Curiosity
Ambition
The anointing ON you is for the deliverance of others BUT the anointing IN you is for you
God is a finisher
Hosea 7:8
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
