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Rev. Cecil Jerome Graham Installed as Pastor at True Vine
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
In September 2000 Cecil
Jerome Graham accepted God’s calling to the ministry. He
spoke with his pastor, Rev. Cullian Hill, D.Min, of
Detroit’s Greater Concord Missionary Baptist Church, for
advice and for confirmation of that calling.
“Everything I see has a
sermon to it,” Graham told Hill. “There’s a message in
everything I see.” That was exactly what Hill needed to hear
and in June 2001, Graham delivered a trial sermon at Greater
Concord after being named associate pastor of the church.
In July 2006, Graham
accepted a position of associate minister in his Toledo
hometown at Indiana Avenue MBC and worked with Rev. John E.
Roberts, D.Min, for the next seven years until he was named
pastor of True Vine MBC in November 2013.
This past Sunday, January
26, 2014, Graham was officially installed as True Vines
pastor and his mentors, Hill and Roberts, were there to give
the ceremony a boost. The installation’s theme was “Feed My
Sheep” from John 21:17.
Roberts delivered the
service’s statement of purpose and Hill delivered the
afternoon’s sermon. A host of other church men and women
also participated in the celebration. Rev. Roy McElya,
associate minister at Indiana Avenue and Rev. Jerry Boose,
pastor of Second Baptist, conducted the readings.
Rev. F. Alexander Sheares,
pastor of First Baptist of Rossford, brought the Charge to
Pastor; Rev. Sylvester Rome of Tabernacle MBC and president
of the Baptist Ministers Conference brought the Charge to
Church Membership; Rev. Bobby Welborn, pastor of Charity MBC
led the prayer of installation and Rev. Willie Perryman,
D.Min, pastor of Jerusalem MBC delivered the benediction.
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Standing: Deacon Starks, Deaconess Chears, Mother Bell,
Sister Gaston, Mother Stinson,
Deaconness Baker, Deaconness Frazier, Trustee Byrd, Deacon
Frazier. SEATED. Rev. Cecil Jerome Graham, Pastor. Deacon
Bowie
Brother Jimmie Hart. Sister Rosemary Dunn. Trustee Jeannette
Byrd. Deacon Ncathaniel Frazier.SEATED. Rev. Cecil Jerome
Graham, Pastor. Deacon Robert Bowie
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