The preaching/teaching mission began in Central United Methodist Church in the late 1980's and was permanently funded by an endowment given by the Lewis family in 1991 and was named the John P. Lewis Lectures.  The Endowment was transferred to First United Methodist Church and consecrated in 1995.

 

 

 

year

1993

1994

1995

1998

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

 

 

2016

2018

speaker

Dr. Charles Allen

Rev. Gregg Webb

Dr. Leonard Sweet

Rev. Mouzon Biggs

Bishop Janice Riggle Huie

Rev. & Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II

Dr. Charles Page

Rev. Lovett Weems

Dr. Jay McDaniel

Rev. Fletcher Harper

Dr. Jocelyn Elders

Denise Garner

Debbie Rambo

Dr. Tom Youngblood

Bishop Kenneth H. Carter

Bishop Minerva Carcaño

 

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