NASSAU, Bahamas — The Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) is currently holding its 50th Annual Business Meeting and Conference July 23 – 27, 2018 at the the Melia Resort in Nassau Beach. The 2018 conference theme is, “UBE at 50: The Glory of the Past, The Hope for the Future.”
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry electrified hundreds of worshippers who chanted ‘Love Lifted Me’ along with him at Christ Church Cathedral here in Nassau during the July 24 opening Eucharist.
More than 800 Bahamian and U.S. laity, clergy, dignitaries and officials responded passionately as Curry invoked the hymn, a favorite of his grandmother: “I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more, but the Master of the sea heard my despairing cry, from the waters lifted me, now safe am I…”https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2018/07/24/union-of-black-episcopalians-at-50-glory-of-the-past-hope-for-the-future/
