APRIL

Sunday, 13 April – Youth Sunday

Sunday, 27 April – Annual Men’s Day
celebrated @ 11:00 am worship service



Guest speaker:
Rev. Jonathan L. Weaver
Greater Mt. Nebo A.M.E. Church Bowie, Maryland

Reverend Weaver serves as the pastor of Greater Mt. Nebo A.M.E. Church in Bowie, Maryland. Since assuming that role in April of 1988, the church has grown from less than 100 members to more than 1,600; with nearly fifty different ministries serving the church and the broader community.
He served as the Executive Director of the Service and Development Agency, Inc. (SADA), the official international development organization of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church from January 1988 until July 1991. He spent time in Haiti, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, creating rural community, and economic development projects on behalf of the organization.

Rev. Weaver’s other professional experiences include serving as the Washington Office Director of The African-American Institute and Director of Development for Operation Crossroads Africa, inc., and Assistant Chief Administrative Officer for Montgomery County Government in Rockville, MD. As a volunteer with Operation Crossroads Africa, a cultural exchange organization based in New York City, he helped to build a health clinic and a adult literacy center in Northern Nigeria. He traveled throughout West and East Africa, planning, along with local officials, community development projects for Crossroads volunteers.Reverend Weaver attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he earned his bachelor’s degree and later received his Master’s in Business Administration from the Harvard University Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a graduate of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rev. Weaver has served as President, for the past ten years, of the Collective Banking Group Inc. (CBG), a national ecumenical association comprised of close to five-hundred churches in five states and the District of Columbia, engaged in economic empowerment initiatives through partnerships with banks and other businesses in their communities. Today he serves as a member of the National Collective Banking Group as it continues to engaged in economic empowerment nationally as well as internationally. Moreover, Rev. Weaver is a member of the Board of Directors of Industrial Bank (Washington, D.C.) and, of the Second District Religious, Educational and Charitable Development Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization within the A.M.E. Church to foster non-profit programs and projects for spiritual, educational, social and economic growth and development.

Rev. Weaver is the recipient of numerous awards including the 1999 Prince George’s County NAACP Image Award, the 1999 Community Service Award from the Prince George’s County Foundation the first Civic Achievement Award presented by the Harvard Business School Black Alumni Association in January 2000, and the 2007 A.M.E. Church Service and Development Agency Economic Development award. Married to Pamela Lynne Weaver, he is the father of two daughters, Jaime and Megan, one son-in-law, Roosevelt, three grandsons and one granddaughter. More than all of the above, Rev. Weaver is determined to serve God and to make a difference.