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Mt. Nebo Baptist Church Annual Homage to “The Silent
Soldiers”
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Nineteen years ago, Rev.
Cedric Brock and the congregation of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church
began a Black History Celebration titled “Stepping Out In
Faith,” a banquet to honor the community’s “Silent Soldiers”
– those who contribute so much to so little fanfare.
Those first few
celebrations were held in the church’s dining hall – with an
attendance of around 100. Nineteen years later, the event
has been moved to the Premiere Banquet Complex on
Heatherdowns to accommodate the 600 attendees.
So it was this past
Sunday, as hundreds gathered to congratulate the 2020
honorees: Bridgette Byrd, Donnetta Carter, Alan Crawford,
Helen Diggins, Kelly Ewing-Sims, Rev. Avearn Ford, Deborah
Gardner, Pastor roscoe Gilmore, Elsie Harbour, Mary
Hawkins-Mitchell, Betty Houston, Gesiele Hunter, Bessie
Luckett, Sheree Madison-Emery, Ethel McCollum, Debra
Middleton, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara Rome, Bishop Christopher
Rowell, Michelle Tarrant, Phyllis Wallace, Amanda West and
Kenneth Witherspoon.
As he has for years, Larry
Jones served as master of ceremonies. Cerssandra McPherson,
of Braden United Methodist Church welcomed the guests,
followed by a selection by Mt. Nebo’s First Lady Debra
Brock.
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