P P B C  African American Heritage

Tour and Fun Experience

 In January 1990, the Providence Park Baptist Church set as one of its goals to reaffirm and revitalize the value of African American culture in the church school curriculum.  African American tours became an integral part of the curriculum that sought to teach our children, youth and adults about the forebears’ shoulders for which we now stand.

We are indebted to the many stalwart leaders such as Mary Mcleod Bethume, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglas who formed the foundation of heritage.  It is this pride or heritage to which the Board of Christian Education in general and the Church school in particular wanted to convey to our youth and children.  Subsequently, in July 1990 the African American Heritage Tour and Fun Experience found its beginning.

During that summer, the Providence Park Baptist Church visited the Frederick Douglas Home and other historical sites in Washington, D. C.  During subsequent summers, the church school toured the African-Canadian tour, the Great Blacks In Wax Museum, Booker T. Washington National Historical Park, and the African American Cultural Arts Museum, and the Philadelphia Historical District.  Sister Jean Quash played the harpsichord, a musical instrument used to entertain many of the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War. 

In July 1994, the church school journeyed to Atlanta, Georgia.  Tours

included the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Change, the 100-year old Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Dr. King’s birth home and tomb.