Get To Know Rev. Hooker United Methodist Church Congregation Specialist
Rev Amiri B. Hookerr
Rev Amiri B. Hookerr
Rev. Amiri Hooker
Rev. Hooker has served Wesley Chapel since 2019. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1995 with a bachelor of science degree in biblical studies and education.
Rev. Hooker was ordained as an elder in 2000 following his 1998 graduation from Gammon Theological Seminary at The Interdenominational Theological Center with a master of divinity degree in theology and African thought. He also has served the East Camden Charge; the Lake City Circuit; Wesley Chapel and St. John UMCs in Darlington; Springtown UMC in Smoaks; Green Pond, Mt. Harmony, and Clover Chapel UMCs in Clover; New Harmony UMC in Anderson; New Harmony UMC in Seneca; and the Seneca Circuit/Charge.
Congregational Specialists: Empowering Churches for Disciple-Making and Community Impact
Our services help churches achieve greater spiritual and social impact:
Providing compassionate counseling services for individuals and families in need.
HCHC Hooker Community Healing Company is dedicated to healing trauma, building reconciliation, and empowering communities through transformational narrative work. Through a holistic approach integrating spiritual care, community organizing, and popular education, we work to shift limiting narratives and support the emergence of liberating new stories.
HCHC aims to foster reconciliation, empowerment and well-being wherever fragmentation and trauma limit community potential. We work at grassroots and leadership levels to address issues like racial and social justice, post-conflict healing, poverty and economic injustice, and environmental destruction. By cultivating empowering counter-narratives, we seek to shift the civic conversation and support communities in claiming agency over their futures. Healing begins by changing the stories we live by.
Drawing on over 30 years of experience in conflict transformation from a church based reality, Rev. Amiri B Hooker and the HCHC team employ a narrative-focused model. We view narrative as the lens through which we experience ourselves and relate to others. By making narrative structures more conscious, we can change how problems are defined and solutions explored.
Our methods are collaborative. Through workshops, worship services, Bible and religious trainings and one-on-one narrative coaching, we work alongside communities to uncover restraining narratives, acknowledge pain of the past, and rediscover dignity and purpose. Storytelling, ritual, and the arts integrate head and heart for holistic healing.
Wherever fragmentation and trauma limit community potential, HCHC aims to foster reconciliation, empowerment and well-being. We work at grassroots and leadership levels to address issues like:
- Racial and social justice
- Post-conflict healing
- Poverty and economic injustice
- Environmental destruction
By cultivating empowering counter-narratives, we seek to shift the civic conversation and support communities in claiming agency over their futures. Healing begins by changing the stories we live by.
Rev. Amiri B. Hooker was elected to serve and the New Coordinator for The South Eastern Jurisdiction of Black Methodist for Church Renewal. Black Methodists for Church Renewal, Inc. (BMCR) is the organized Black caucus of The United Methodist Church. BMCR is still here advocating
Check out this great video from Rev Hooker and his first Tic Tok Sermon
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Rev. Amiri Hooker released: ‘Preaching in the Midst Of’ on Black preaching and COVID-19
During the COVID 19 Quarantine the importance of having and using good computers, video equipment, WiFi equipment and technology I'm Asking You to help me do the ministry Ive been Called to Do for the Kingdom of God.
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Check out this great collection of great Black motivational Quotes that I find very empowering
A native of Bennettsville SC. Rev Hooker received and accepted his calling in junior high school. He has been active in ministry now some 27 years. His immediate Family includes his loving wife Sgt. Valerie Hooker, oldest son, Gabriyan (29), oldest Daughter, Sba Onesty Asha (17), youngest son, Omri Charles-Bernard (16), and the baby girl, Sia Bari Ashira (14)
Rev. Hooker attended Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC at the encouragement of the Late Bishop Joseph B. Bethea. There he majored in Biblical studies, helped organized the State Black Student Network, and worked with the Children’s Defense Fund and Black Community Crusaded to help resurrect the Freedom Schools concept and the idea of racial uplift in young African American Adults.
After graduating with high honors form Methodist University, Rev. Hooker went on to enroll in a Master of Divinity program at the famed Gammon Division of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA,
During Seminary Rev. Hooker was ordained a United Methodist Pastor and awarded several awards and also selected as a member of ASCAC. Rev. Hooker has prophetically served churches he has been appointed to in various ways. He has Faithfully served the Annual Conference as a Bishop Joseph Bethea award winner, Advocacy Convener and Chair of the inaugural Racial Reconciliation Design Team. Rev. Hooker has also partnered with the Schools, Headstart and Minister’s Groups. He currently serves as a board member of the South Carolina Christian Action Council (SCCAC) and the National African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC) as the chair of the MICAH Group and is one of the Tri-Chairs in the South Carolina division Poor People’s Campaign. Rev Hooker is a member of the NAACP & BMCR.
Yet the simple truth is best if asked he says, ‘I am just a Child of God, Called by God, “For as the word says our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts.” (1 Thessalonians 2:3-4)
Great Worship service at the end of January with a message from my mother Claudette D Hooker and a Sermon by Me on Demons
Here is a trailer for some of our longer Summer services
This is a lesson in see the truth around us and the power of the church to make a difference. Yes You can make it!
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