Sunday, July 12 (11:00 am)
“Dancing In the What-If”
Exodus 15:1-21 (NRSVUE)
The sea has just closed behind them. Pharaoh’s army is gone, and for one exhale, it’s pure relief. But look ahead and there’s nothing but wilderness. No map. No provisions plan. No idea what’s coming in the next forty years, let alone the next forty days. Deliverance just happened, and uncertainty is already setting in.
This is exactly where Miriam picks up her tambourine. Not once she has answers. Not once the itinerary gets confirmed. She dances on the shore, in the gap between what God has already done and what God hasn’t shown them yet. The Song of the Sea isn’t a song of arrival. It’s a song for the in-between, the place most of us actually live.
This Sunday, Rev. Darrell R. Hamilton II brings us into “Dancing In the What If.” What does it look like to praise before the plan is clear? To sing before you know the route? To move before you have your footing? Join us as we ask what it means to dance on this side of the sea, wilderness, and all.
Shiloh Baptist Church | 1 Holton St, Medford, MA
All are welcome. Come ready to dig deep and build something that lasts.
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Rev. Darrell R. Hamilton, II, MDiv, is an ordained Baptist pastor. He received his seminary degree from Wake Forest School of Divinity in 2017. Darrell also has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Rev. Hamilton is the Executive Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain. His ministry is centered on leading our world toward greater justice and love for all people. His vocational and professional journey has been inspired by the scholarship of people such as James Cone and Kelly Brown Douglas, and the ministries of Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., William Barber, II, and others.
He is the former Executive Minister of Operations and Resource Development at Middle Collegiate Church in New York. Prior he was the Program Director for City Mission Boston’s Urban Pastoral Ministry Program, Adjunct Professor for Contextual Education at Boston University School of Theology, and held leadership positions with the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Darrell is the father of Kaylani Rae Wilson-Hamilton. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. He enjoys going to the movies, reading books, and is a self-professed comic book movie nerd.
Instagram Handle : @blackandeducatedpreacher
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