“The Lord Will Provide: The Life & Times of
William H. Copeland Jr.” is one pastor’s story. A personal human journey about
the sacrifices, struggles, triumphs and what it truly means to be a pastor, to
love the people of God. It is an American story of a do-something faith rooted
in tenacity and in the audacity of hope that reminds of a time when being a
pastor was not a vocation but a calling.
PASTOR. THERE ONCE WAS A TIME
when that word alone was held sacred. A time when being a pastor was not a
vocation but a calling. Not so much a profession as a confession of the faith
and purpose held by those divinely called to the ministry of servant leadership.
“The Lord Will Provide: The
Life & Times of William H. Copeland Jr.” is a reminder of those times. A
reminder of the men—and women—who embraced that sacred calling at a time in
America when the role of pastor, particularly in the African-American community,
entailed wearing the hat of community leader, public servant, spiritual
counselor, social advocate and being the unflinching face and voice that spoke
truth to power. It was a weighty and perhaps unenviable mission—regarded as
both sacred and monumental.
