The Father Divine ProjectMain Menu"Inside the Kingdom": The Evolution of the Peace Mission"A Greater Picture of ME": The Peace Mission ArchiveSince the late 1930s, Father Divine and his followers oversaw the documentation of the Peace Mission's own history and public pronouncements in a weekly newspaper, with wire and tape recordings, film and photography."I Know You Are God": A Database Documentary by Will LuersAbout The Father Divine ProjectWill Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730dLeonard Norman Primianob55769156974a9bf4a4c74973f47ef4191206d21
12010-08-10T14:06:35-07:00The Holy Communion Banquet Service19The main communal ritual of the Peace Mission. Table are multi-course dining events that include singing and testimonials.text2012-05-05T19:47:00-07:00"The Holy Communion Banquet Service" was central to Father Divine's fame as he and his followers dined, worshipped, sang, ecstatically danced, and praised God together. These public display events of the bounty of God's spiritual and physical harvest served a great variety of foods representative of the abundance received by followers through a life of faith and service to God, Father Divine (See Kephart's description 1987:94-99). Many men and women became adherents as a result of such material displays in the face of their experience of urban poverty, especially through the years of the Great Depression when Father charged very little or what one could afford for the food.
