KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The lives of the congregation at City of Truth Church in Kansas City are under construction.
“We want to make consistent life changes,” said Armour Stephenson III, the pastor of City of Truth Church in Kansas City. “I just felt honored and to help people in that process.”
It’s all part of a lecture series Pastor Stephenson, who goes my A. D. 3, has put together as a way to help people improve on certain aspects of their lives. It’s timely, not only because of New Year’s Resolutions, but also because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
“Dr. King was a man of vision, so basically implementing that vision and trying to get people to grab a hold of a vision and for a better tomorrow, a better you, a better situation, a better circumstance and then giving them the steps Biblically toward that goal.
While the pastor and his wife agreed that MLK, Jr.’s greatest accomplishment lies in his work toward equality in America, they say it’s his words in his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech that resonate in the hearts of people around the world.
“He was used to change the course of history,” said Jessica, the pastor’s wife. “That gives us a hope that okay, I can do it to. Whatever my dream is, whatever my hope is I’m not going to stop because one day it can become reality.”
That’s the message Stephenson and his wife Jessica shared at Lee’s Summits 2012 MLK, Jr. Celebration.
“It’s very important because if we don’t remember our past, we at risk of repeating it in the future,” said Stephenson. “I think we need to keep that in perspective. That was a very revolutionary time, a very revolutionary man that took risks and made changes.”
The Stephenson’s say if King and other revolutionaries could make positive changes in the world, there’s no reason we can’s all make positive changes in our own lives.
