With new pastor in place, Emanuel AME continues on its 'mission of hope'
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, has welcomed a new pastor as the congregation’s work for justice continues.
Betty Deas Clark, a close colleague of the previous pastor, Clementa Pinckney, became the pastor at Emanuel in late January. Pinckney was among the nine people killed by a white supremacist shooter during a Bible study on June 17.
“I’m sure that to some of my parishioners it’s like yesterday,” Clark told a local television station. “It’s going to take me some time to sit with the people, cry with the people, talk to the people . . . then talk to God and ask him, Where do we go from here?”
