A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland hosted by Dr. Frank A. Thomas 

She is SUCH a wonderful storyteller. Her voice invites the listener to BE with her and the God that she proclaims. Beautiful!

Dr Copeland speaks and writes like a poet and it’s just beautiful to me ❤

Dr. Copeland sounds like a profound poet, touching the core of your soul when she speaks.

Listening to her preach is like having a cup of coffee with an old friend. She'll make you laugh, cry, and glorify God the Father simultaneously. A real Kingdom treasure.

I love her SOOO MUCH! I believe she needs to be ONLINE 24-7 just TALKING! I feel like we need to hear her because it seems like this is missed in church somehow! She's awesome!

Wow. I’m 25 and this has truly impacted me in such a deep way that I will never forget.

This Lady seems to be a loving and terrific mother and yet she talks about never having children. Her reward is so great I hope she knows. She is truly a great influence to all.

Thank You Dr. Frank Thomas.. just thank you!

She is one of the most profound and real preachers of all time. Have always loved and respected her!

It was a pleasure to have her share her story, she demonstrates that there is hope in the midst of the dark nights. Dr. Frank Thomas, your ability to provide the community with important and relevant speakers is a Godsend. Hats off to you!!

This was profound, deeply insightful, nourishing, and encouraging. I kept on going back for seconds, for I was sitting at my father's table, where I was served food from one of his daughter's powerful and enduring ministry!! Thank you Dr. Thomas. And God continually anoint Dr. Copeland.

Dr. Thomas, from my most sincere heart - I thank you for what you do, and who you have done that with. Your fervor for uplifting, equipping and exposing lovers of Jesus is a blessing. Thank you! This post was a treat.

Such a power statement God puts that view into my spirit 35 or more years ago as something woman needed to be encouraged to consider, be the woman He called. Not the male pastor you have seen or heard so much

She just preached to me during this interview!! Thank you so much Dr. Thomas for this and other interviews with these Awesome Men and Women of God!!!

Thank you Dr. Frank Thomas for mining the volume of Black preaching genius to give us this diamond embodied in the flesh of Dr. Claudette Copeland. Dr. Copeland was the first womanist/woman preacher that I was encouraged to pay serious attention to when I began to discover my own preaching voice. I heard her preach a sermon on the Rape of Tamar where she called out patriarchy in the biblical text, naming it, male collusion. It blew my mind. And, I'm so glad it did.

Thank You Dr. Thomas for honoring a GREAT WOMEN OF GOD!!!! THANK YOU REV. DR. COPLAND FOR YOUR MINISTRY AND ALLOWING THE JESUS IN YOU TO TOUCH MY SOUL!!

She was my chaplain when we were stationed at Lackland AFB. I've never forgotten her

Thank you Mr. Thomas! The Reverend Dr. Claudette Copeland is one of my only favorite Pastors because she is the first woman Pastor I heard. I loved the way she brought the word, and she spoke with a soft boldness that touched my heart for I am a woman myself. I would buy her cassettes, yes cassette tapes, and listened to them over and over. I had never heard of a city called Nacogdoches. In one of her most powerful sermons, she said a phrase that I have used throughout my life, she said; " People have begun to believe their own propaganda!" She is a woman, daughter, and messenger of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to thank Dr. Copeland, if she ever reads this, know Dr. Copeland that I love you, and am so glad that you did become a physician of lost and hurt souls, and heal pain with the Balm of Gilead (which was one of your sermons)that no earthly physician of medicine could get to. Our souls, souls for Jesus, you have saved many and remember it was Mary who saw the empty tomb, and Mary who was one of the first witnesses of seeing our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. Dr. Copeland is a Mary of our times. May God Bless her and her family always, and you as well Mr. Thomas!

WOW, Thank you Dr. Thomas. These interviews are Oral histories for our time...

Pastor Frank, I was so deeply moved by this interview. Pastor Copeland words and spirit reached me in the deepest corner of my heart and sat with my soul. I resonated with her hunger for healing and calling to offer a sacred space to walk with others in their pain and healing process. Thank you for this and many of the other powerful interviews. Blessings Kelly Wilkins

I'd love to sit with her for 15 mins..She reminds me of my great grandmother..I can feel her nurturing spirit through the screen..Anyone would come out of that conversation a better man or woman..She's definitely a treasure to the Body of Christ!!

I love you Dr Copeland

Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland is my Ministry Motha! I’m her daughter and so proud to be one of them today. IYKYK

Oh my Father God thank you for sharing WOG and Mr. Frank! Blessings 🙏🌹🎶☀️❤️🥰💕

Thanks to Thomas for the platform and Special Thanks to Dr. Copeland for being a Phenomenal Gift to the Body of Christ!! What Great Impartation she gave...

I did not know ablout Dr. Claudette until TODAY! She is a spiritual avatar that will liberate time and time again!! I want o see her in person and thank her for inspiring me as a mother, educator and cultural storyteller. We are Blessed to call her Mother!!

So Elegant...

Jesus, this one was right up my alley. 🙏🏽❤️

I am shopping the Spirit! Yes.. Wow.. Pentecostal in a BIG WAY!

THANK GOD JESUS CHRIST YOUR HOLY SPIRIT. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONY, OUR PASTOR CLAUDETTE ANDERSON COPELAND. WE LOVE YOU. WE THANK GOD YOU HEARD HIS VOICE, CALL, APPOINTMENT AND CONTINUING ON....8/31/201`...

Her ministry has always given me life! So this interview helped me understand why she's so polarizing!!

Mine too.. Isaiah 6.. Love you Dr. Claudette!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart for God’s people. I feel the real of Jesus Christ witness in you & Dr. Thomas. Love y’all love 💕

Thanks for interviewing these anointed women who can preach and teach the gospel. Wonderful!

This just blessed my spirit so.

Thanks for sharing this Wonderful Woman and All That She Has shared of Herself and Blessings Many Generations of People with The Wisdom and Understanding She Shared Here

Perfound interview, a client of mine gave me a sermon entitled When silence is sin... my life was never the same, it was my first time hearing Ps. Copeland.

Deeply wedded to PRAYER, Keeping my ear to the door!

I really love this woman of God . She is so authentic and special to the body of Christ for such a time as this. I love ❤️ you Dr. Copeland.🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

Wow! Is the least I can say. Your testimony is a joy to me.

Thank you mummy claudette for your transparency. I love you ma.

Grateful for this conversation.

Wonderful! I am blessed to have simply heard it.

Amazing, I’m thankful for this.

The best interview for me so far

Profound and Convicting - Pastor C has been an inspiration on my life for years. I treasure the times she as visited my church.

Thank you for this! 💜

Dr. Copeland blessed me with this interview but what she said about her husband probably inspired me most. To have a woman of her caliber stand defensively and say my husband is why I am who I am says a lot about the caliber of man her husband is. I pray for the grace to have my wife say the same of me. Thanks for interjecting that into the conversation!

Where are the giants! Where are the women of God who are willing to mentor today's female preachers?

Geez....you can feel the passion when Dr Copeland reflects on her upbringing in Pentecost I remember those days ... #LifeChanging

This is so profound! Reinforces my own calling and strengthened my outlook. Thank you Dr. Thomas

Glory to God for all things He has done.

Those last few seconds had me like, "Why am I about to cry? She ain't even talking to me!!!"

Thank you for doing this interview on this wonderful Legend. ❤️

THAT'S where I saw her, I don't remember topic or preaching words. DR. COPELAND made a great impact on me. Women conference. THANKS DR THOMAS.

One thing I realized everyone one that Have suffered in ways we have....God did surround them with women that was there for them supporting them in ways that are truly FRIENDSHIPS!!!#

Omg this was very thought provoking and insightful, soul stirring. Thanks for capturing this Dr. Thomas.

Absolutely phenomenal! Really fed my soul!

Thank you Dr. thomas for your vision and for your impartation you have shared over the years. I have always been inspired by Dr. Copeland since my introduction to her at Light of the World Christian Church, Bishop T. Garrott Benjaminm Jr. was pastor. I thank God for her trannsparency. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you for hosting her.

AWESOME!

What a beautiful interview. Thank you.💕

Awesome... POWERFUL!!

Her candor about how she came to ministry is enormously important for us to hear; for me to hear - “floundering” from shock and disappointment by church leadership who would deny me a recommendation into seminary because, I don’t have a familial history or a connection with a church family (I live in a rural area and have had health issues that preclude me from sitting in a pew - spine surgery) but I faithfully attend Rankin Memorial and other live stream services online as a sick and shut-in. Discounting my academic vigor, and scholarship...God showed me even church folk can be unkind. And to think, it was a women in the high places of ministry. So now there is other biases to consider - generational, and discrimination against the disabled, too. But, God! When he opens a door, no one can close it! Church membership is down, and of those who report going to church, they report only going twice a month. These are vital conversations Dr. Frank. Thank you. 🙏🏽❤️🤗 I hope to thank you in person one day.

Awesome Pastor I first saw her years ago with TD JAKE. I never forgot her, AWESOME

Thank you

I am not comparing myself, but Dr. Copeland story sounds like me.

POWERFUL!!!! #PreachingWomen

1:00:32 “For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. They acted shamefully, they committed abomination; yet they were not ashamed, they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.” - Jeremiah 6:13-15 NRSV 💙 Many prayers go up now for all of you and your families 🙏

RIP 🙏🏾🕊️

Thank you Dr. Thomas for this interview, and Dr. Anderson Copeland for your reflection and transparency. You have been one of my favorite preachers for a long time. Thank God for the Spirit and the acacemic journey ( MSR ITC '13). Recommended NCCC to my sister as she relocated to the San Antonio area.

Who am I to talk back to God?

54:20 “You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction; and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory- including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?” - Romans 9:19-24 NRSV 💙 Much love and peace y’all ✌️

Who are you....in the preacher; authentic, have you been broken?! Humility there- availability?! Is there something there that God can use....

Read yvette flunders bio on her Facebook page!!! She accomplished so much at an early age in ministry....thats divine wisdom. So many male preachers is intimidated by her!!! Thats so foolish! I truly believe that's why there us do many women who are FOUNDER'S OF CHURCHES!!!!👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🙏❤🙏👌👌👌👌👌

Ooohweee thats Good...casting a wide net into the DEEP....PROFOUND!!! THE PREPARATION HMMMM. HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD!🙏❤🙏👌👌👌❤ TO HEAR;HMMMM...SHOPPING THE SPIRIT....Hmmmmm. Wooow! Divine wisdom!✌📖✌🙏❤🙏👌👌👌👌😀 God has equipped her with such divine wisdom!👋👋👋👋👋🙏❤🙏👌👌👌🙏 Hallelujah Hallelujah Glory!🙏❤🙏❤ Hearing what thus says the Lord! Yes she is...A living preaching woman!🙏❤🙏👌👌👌👌👌🙏 I totally agree!👌👌👌🙏❤🙏✋✋✋🙏 The being of preaching!hmmmmmm. Hallelujah! Powerful🙏❤🙏👍👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋 Is there substance in you...great!!!👋👋👋👋👋 Have to broken for sure!!!🙏❤🙏👌👌👌👌👌🙏🙆📖🙋🙏❤🙏👏👏👏👏👏🙏 Yessssssss; sistah's are definitely more AVAILABLE!👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋 CONFORMATIONS FOR ME....THX U DEAR JESUS!!!! WHO ARE YOU???? GREAT QUESTION REGARDING A PREACHER!👋👋👋👋 WOOOOOW! ALL THAT DIVINE WISDOM MEN CUD BE TAPPING INTO THROUGH PASTOR C....WOOOOOW MY MY MY....GREAT WOMEN PREACHERS I ALWAYZ ENJOYED! PASTOR COPELAND IONA LOCKE MILLICENT HUNTER ERNESTINE R. DR STACKS YVETTE FLUNDER I FOLLOWED EVERY ONE OF THEM...THEIR EVERY AVAILABLE SERMON!POWERFUL POWERFUL WOMEN OF GOD!!!! ALL TRAILBLAZERS, GENERALS...SO MUCH I HAVE LEARNED FROM EVERY ONE OF THEM. THANK YOU DEAR JESUS FOR THE MIGHTY VESSELS THEY ARE...ALL OF THESE WOMEN ENDLESSLY LOVE GOD AND GODS PPL. HALLELUJAH!🙏❤🙏❤ EVERYONE OF THEM UNIQUE UNIQUE UNIQUE! THEY ALL KNOW THEIR ASSIGNMENTS!🙏❤🙏 ITS A DIFFERENCE; WEN YOU KNOW YOUR ASSIGNMENT!🎊🎉🙏❤🙏✌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌 THAT IS SO REAL....NO MATTER WHERE SHE PREACH...THE GOSPEL WORKS...NOW THAT IS. THE HOLY-SPIRIT; POWER!!!!I KNOW WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT THE WORD OF GOD WORKS! PERSONALLY I THINK ALOT OF MALE PREACHERS ARE INTIMIDATED BY POWERFUL WOMAN PREACHERS!

She is my Lover

Where is he been at? I have for her in a while on RU-vid. We need her right now. On RU-vid. The rest of these. Fake. Pastor. And bishop come back to RU-vid.

She says was looking and didn’t know it was jesus. Alls I can say is she’s pretty and I like her glasses. Our Ancestors were kidnapped and loaded onto The Good Ship Jesus. We accepted the god of the bible at the end of a whip, and we prayed to the god of our oppressors. Who’s prayers do we think he’ll answer? Black people are the prayingist, worshipping people on the face of this earth. We will out Muhammad Muhammad, out Pope the Pope, yet the most broken people in the world. Cute glasses though!

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