Contents: RIDivest Coordinating Committee • Rhode Island Nelson Mandela Release Committee • Rhodes Island Divest Re-Commitment Form • Program for event celebrating the release of Nelson Mandela on February 18 at Pond Street Baptist Church, sponsored by Rhode Island Divest and the Rhode Island Nelson Mandela Release Committee. The program includes Prelude, Roger Luther; Processional: "Come and Go With Me"; Welcome and Opening Statement, Rev. Dr. Virgil Wood, Pastor, Pond Street Baptist Church; Invocation, Rev. Dr. Soi-Daniel W. Brown, Pastor, Holy Temple Church of God in Christ; "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder"; Reading, Sylvia Ann Soares; Selections,: Spiritual Echoes; Scripture Reading,...
Contents: RIDivest Coordinating Committee • Rhode Island Nelson Mandela Release Committee • Rhodes Island Divest Re-Commitment Form • Program for event celebrating the release of Nelson Mandela on February 18 at Pond Street Baptist Church, sponsored by Rhode Island Divest and the Rhode Island Nelson Mandela Release Committee. The program includes Prelude, Roger Luther; Processional: "Come and Go With Me"; Welcome and Opening Statement, Rev. Dr. Virgil Wood, Pastor, Pond Street Baptist Church; Invocation, Rev. Dr. Soi-Daniel W. Brown, Pastor, Holy Temple Church of God in Christ; "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder"; Reading, Sylvia Ann Soares; Selections,: Spiritual Echoes; Scripture Reading, Les Papp; Sermon, Rev. Dietra C. Bell, Pastor, Allen A.M.E. Church; Prayer for Mandela Family; Selection, Pond Street Gospel Choir; Remarks, Prudence Mashile, Co-chair, Rhode Island Divest; "Amazing Grace," Leader: Elise Coverdale; Reading, Tarsha D. Fitzgerald, Student, Johnson and Wales University; Selection, Pond Street Gospel Choir; Remarks, Solomzi Makhohliso, Student, Brown University; Selection, Rev. Pat Smith; Offering, Rev. Sammy Vaughan, Interim Pastor, St. James Baptist Church; Selection, Rev. Pat Smith; Offertory Prayer, Rev. Sammy Vaughan; Reading, Sylvia Ann Soares; Selections, Hood Memorial A.M.E. Zion Choir; Re-dedication, Rep. Joseph E. Newsome, Co-chair, Rhode Island Divest; "Lift Every Voice and Sing"; Benediction, Rev. Paul Schoonmaker, Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church; Postlude, Rod Luther.
