(Photo Credit: Courtesy of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church)
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church is bringing a homecoming-style solemnisation implicit with a Battle of the Bands, a unrecorded show by Grammy Award-winning creator Tasha Cobbs Leonard and different festivities connected Oct. 24 opening astatine 9 a.m. astatine 6400 Woodrow Rd. successful Stonecrest. Senior Pastor Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant volition dedicate a information of the programme to honoring assorted assemblage leaders and champions successful DeKalb County.
“While galore members of our congregation and assemblage articulation america successful a virtual worship work each week, we privation to instrumentality different accidental to reimagine religion successful a caller mode and grant those men and women who person served arsenic pillars successful our assemblage done this pandemic,” said Bryant. “We privation attendees to consciousness escaped to travel arsenic they are, deterioration their assemblage paraphernalia and bask New Birth’s homecoming celebration.”
Honorees astatine the upcoming outdoor work see DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Michael Thurmond, President of Organization of DeKalb Educators Deborah Jones, vigor big and philanthropist Frank Ski, laminitis of Sisters by Choice Dr. Rogsbert Phillip-Reed, and assemblage organizer Flossie Varner. Each honoree volition person a peculiar tribute during the lawsuit for their respective assemblage contributions and impacts that person touched thousands of lives.
Thurmond’s enactment successful providing entree for thousands of residents to person the COVID-19 vaccination has helped service arsenic a changeable successful the limb for vaccination rates among Black, Latino and underserved communities countywide.
Jones has served arsenic the dependable for thousands of educators moving connected the frontline passim the pandemic successful classrooms crossed DeKalb and has advocated for policies and protocols to support educators and students safe.
Ski, who returned to the Atlanta airways arsenic big of the Frank Ski Morning Show connected KISS 104.1 this year, has remained committed to impacting younker done The Frank Ski Kids Foundation and advancing captious topics connected his top-rated vigor broadcast.
New Birth subordinate Varner served arsenic a catalyst for creating New Birth’s nutrient pantry – The King’s Table – which has served much than 800,000 meals since the onset of the pandemic.
Sisters By Choice was founded successful 1989 by Phillips-Reed, a salient Atlanta-based bosom surgeon, and has evolved into a multi-faceted enactment providing services for uninsured and underserved women. Realizing the wellness disparities surrounding entree to prime bosom attraction successful agrarian Georgia, Phillips-Reed started an inaugural to code this disparity by processing a Mobile Breast Clinic.
“Each of our honorees’ accomplishments speaks to the precise tone that has existed during this pandemic wherever you spot radical coming unneurotic to help, support, uplift and animate 1 another,” said Dr. Bryant. “Our homecoming solemnisation represents different infinitesimal for our members and the assemblage to travel unneurotic and observe the goodness of God. In summation to our honorees, we are highly blessed to person [Leonard] articulation america for a praise and worship brushwood similar nary other. You whitethorn person missed your school’s homecoming but I promote everyone to marque a program to beryllium astatine New Birth for our Homecoming 700 celebration.”
For much information, sojourn wearenewbirth.org.
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