Saint Augustine College (SAU) President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhailmakes historical past as the primary Traditionally Black Schools and College (HBCU) president chosen to evangelise for the Washington Cathedral’s fourth annual Holy Eucharist & Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday. The service is on February 19, 2023, in Washington, DC.

“HBCU historical past is black historical past,” stated SAU President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail. “I’m honored to blaze a path that elevates the relevance of HBCUs immediately.”

SAU, based in 1867 by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, is one in all two HBCUs affiliated with The Episcopal Church and is the oldest and largest Episcopal HBCU. As well as, with an enrollment of roughly 1,200 college students and 11,000 dwelling alums, SAU additionally ranks amongst The Episcopal Church’s largest Black establishments within the nation.

“Within the legacy of SAU alumni and former leaders similar to Anna Julia Cooper, Bishop Henry Beard Delaney, John Hope Franklin and so many others, Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail has led the College into an more and more dynamic and generative partnership with The Episcopal Church,” stated The Rev. Hershey Mallette Stephens, SAU’s Dean of The Chapel & Religious Life. “Because the chief of the biggest Black establishment affiliated with The Episcopal Church in the USA, it’s applicable and thrilling to have Dr. McPhail preach on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral, the nation’s church, on this HBCU Sunday. I sit up for bringing a delegation of Chapel college students once more this yr to DC for this stunning custom.”

The Washington Nationwide Cathedral, additionally affiliated with The Episcopal Church, started its development when President Theodore Roosevelthelped lay the inspiration stone in 1907, forty years after SAU’s founding. The Cathedral has hosted state funerals, memorial companies for US Presidents, and presidential prayer companies for inaugurations. As well as, The Cathedral has hosted quite a few historic occasions, similar to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s closing Sunday sermon earlier than his assassination in 1968.

This weekend, The Washington Nationwide Cathedral’s Holy Eucharist & Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday welcomes alums, organizations, households, and communities representing the HBCUs as a part of Black Historical past Month. The service consists of music and prayers celebrating HBCUs with the choir of Bowie State College, Maryland’s oldest HBCU, becoming a member of the Cathedral musicians.

Earlier than becoming a member of SAU, Dr. McPhail served as President and CEO of the McPhail Group, LLC, and was a nationally acknowledged thought chief in greater training. She is the founding professor and director of the Group School Management Doctoral Program at Morgan State College. As well as, Dr. McPhail is the previous president of Cypress School in California. Since her arrival at SAU in 2021, Dr. McPhail’s influence because the college’s chief features a 10-year excessive in Fall Enrollment, record-breaking alum giving, and an outpour of federal funding to cowl scholar account balances, preserving and repurposing historic buildings, increasing broadband entry, and reopen campus and neighborhood instructional facilities. As well as, Dr. McPhail’s administration has expanded instructional entry to college students in communities with no HBCUs and leveraged college property to diversify its sources of income.

This service will stream on the Washington Cathedral’s Holy Eucharist web page and their YouTube channel.

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