BRUNSWICK — There will be a special worship service at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19, at the Bowdoin College Chapel to present the sermon poems of James Weldon Johnson.

The African-American poet — who was a university professor, lawyer, founder of the NAACP and ambassador to Nicaragua — published the sermons in 1927 in his book, “God’s Trombones.”

Read and performed internationally as well as on Broadway, the sermon poems are written in what Johnson called the style of the “oldtime Negro preachers,” in his introduction to “God’s Trombones.”

The sermon poems will be delivered by the Rev. Kenneth I. Lewis Jr. of the Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Portland, Bishop Steve Coleman of Williams Temple Church of God in Christ in Portland, and the Rev. Dr. H. Roy Partridge, Episcopal priest and professor at Bowdoin College.

The Gospel Choir of the Green Memorial AME Zion Church along with Bowdoin students will intersperse the sermons with hymns and spirituals. The congregation will be offered the opportunity to participate in the singing.

All are welcome to attend this Tribute and Service of Worship. Following the service there will be a reception and refreshments in the adjacent McKeen Center for the Common Good.