Voorhees University will observe the Feast Day of Absalom Jones with a service on Tuesday, February 10, at 11 am. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this event at St. Phillip’s Chapel at Voorhees University - 386 Porter Drive, Denmark, SC.

The Reverend Absalom Jones was America’s first black priest (1746-1818). Born into slavery in Delaware at a time when slavery was being debated as immoral and undemocratic, he taught himself to read, using the New Testament as one of his resources. Read more about this important figure in the history of the church AT THIS LINK.