November 2024 Congratulatory Announcements
*Mr. Raymond Ingram and Reverend Dr. Toni Belin Ingram Celebrated their Thirty Fifth Wedding Anniversary
Mr. Raymond Ingram and Presiding Elder Toni Belin Ingram celebrated their Thirty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary on November 11, 2024. They were united in Holy Matrimony November 11, 1989.
Raymond Ingram is director of finance at Payne Theological Seminary Wilberforce, Ohio, the oldest free-standing African American seminary in the United States, and Reverend Dr. Toni Belin Ingram is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and is Presiding Elder of the Augusta North District of the Sixth Episcopal District. Under her leadership the Augusta North District strives to be a people that embodies and abides in God’s love and seeks to serve God by serving God’s people. Rev. Dr. Belin Ingram is the Former Assistant Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology, Director of Black Church Studies at Candler School of Theology - Emory University.
The Ingram team are the loving parents of Omar, Iman, and Asha Ingram and they are doting grandparents.
Rev. Dr. Toni Belin Ingram is the daughter of the Late Bishop Henry Allen Belin, Jr. (104th), and Episcopal Supervisor Lucinda Crawford Belin, and she is the sister of Bishop Henry Allen Belin, III, (146), and the Rev. Dr. Roderick Belin, President/Publisher of the AME Publishing House.
Congratulatory messages can be emailed to:
ringram@payneseminary.edu or to: PresidingElderBelinIngram@gmail.com, Phone (470) 456-3141.
*The Rev. Dr. Dimpho Gaobepe of the Nineteenth Episcopal District obtains a PhD Degree
The Rev. Dimpho Alpheus obtains a PhD (Philosophiae Doctor). Dimpho Alpheus Gaobepe is the son of the late Adelaide “Lydia” Mosalagadi Gaobepe and the late Tubane Gaobepe was born on 10 May 1975 in Huhudi Location near Vryburg in the Northwest Province. He matriculated from Kanana Senior Secondary School in Kanana township.
He earned two Masters Degrees. He obtained Master’s Degree in Theology specializing with Missiology in Faculty of Theology from North West University Mafikeng Campus. He also holds Master of Arts in International Relation Studies from NWU University Mafikeng Campus North West RSA, B.Sc. Mathematics and Political Science from Huston Tillotson University Austin, Texas, USA, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Management (NQF LEVEL 8), Diploma In Systematic Theology from R R Wright Theological seminary (NQF LEVEL 7) ,Professional Certificate in Legislative Drafting and Processes from international Centre for Parliamentary Studies in London (UK), Certificate in Advanced Strategy Development and Implementation and professional certificate in Business continuity from Business Continuity SA .
In his Thesis, The Role of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in China’s Lebensraum into Africa through economic expansion (2000-2018), Dimpho investigates if China's concept of peaceful development, which emphasizes the need for a positive-sum game and friendly collaboration, is merely a strategy that China employs to hide its mostly economic actions in many regions of the world. Because of the attention that is being paid to Africa, it is necessary to investigate the degree of reciprocity that exists in the bilateral relations between China and Africa. To accomplish this objective, the theoretical framework employed include theories of Neo-mercantilism, Liberalism, and Marxism.
The study, thus concludes with the suggestion that the FOCAC can reshape the perception of China's economic involvement in Africa by highlighting a mutual dedication to sustainable development and progress, achieved through cooperative and accountable actions.
Congratulatory messages can be emailed to The Rev. Dr. Dimpho Gaobepe via lesitogp@gmail.com.
By His Grace,
Rev. Gaborone P Lesito
19th Episcopal District Field Representative
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Bishop Wilfred J. Messiah, Presiding Prelate
Senior Bishop, AME Church
Mrs. Carol Isabella ‘Mmabatho’ Messiah, Episcopal Supervisor
On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson and Dr. Jacquelyn DuPont-Walker, Director/ Consultant Social Action Commission, we extend congratulations as you praise God for the Joy of these significant milestones.
God Bless!
Ora L. Easley
