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02292aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 5FEF360264BA11E4BF20A1BEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141105010129 008 130624s2012 xxu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1479278297 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781479278299 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)849906911 040 $a HCO $b eng $e rda $c HCO $d BA# $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3619.T56 $b T567 2012 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Stimpson, Michelle, $e author. 245 12 $a A time to speak / $c Michelle Stimpson. 246 3 $a Mama B : $b a time to speak 264 1 $a [United States] : $b [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], $c [2012] 300 $a 156 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Mama B 500 $a Publisher as found on Amazon.com. 520 $a "The good folks at Mt. Zion Baptist are doing their best to keep the church flowing smoothly while Pastor Phillips takes time off to be with his wife in her final days. Beatrice "Mama B" Jackson even opens her home so that the women's groups can continue to meet faithfully after some "rascal" stole the copper from the church's air conditioning unit. With her semi-estranged granddaughter and great-grandson staying in the guest room, Mama B soon has a full house. When the interim preacher and his wife start touting messages that don't line up with the Bible, Mama B wonders how and if she can intervene without causing strife in the congregation or discouraging the young couple. However, Mama B can only take so much of this foolishness. Though her own faith might be intact, she can't have her great-grandson believing that God is a Sugar Daddy in the sky. Soon enough, Mama B will realize that there is much more at stake than she or anyone else at Mt. Zion ever imagined. And it's time to speak"--Page 4 of cover. 650 0 $a Older African American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interim clergy $x Baptists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American Baptists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American churches $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Christian fiction. $2 lcsh 800 1 $a Stimpson, Michelle. $t Mama B. 941 $a 1 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209013648.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5FEF360264BA11E4BF20A1BEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b BA#Initiate Another SILO Locator Search