April 4th Foundation Establishes Summer Study Program
April 4th
Foundation Establishes Summer Study Program to Study the Legacy and Life's Work
of Dr. Martin Luther King
High
school juniors and seniors will have the opportunity to study the legacy and
life's work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this summer.The theme of the two-week program is "Footsteps,
Tell the Story...Pass It On."
"In honor of Dr. King's assassination, we
determined that the mission of the April 4th Foundation should expand beyond remembering
and honoring his work to sharing it," said Johnson E. Saulsberry, Jr.,
founder of the April 4th Foundation."We adopted the mantra, 'Tell the Story...Pass It On'.The Footsteps
program is our first endeavor to this end."
Steve Gaines is known as a man of prayer and a preacher of
God’s Word. Since 1983, he has pastored churches in Texas,
Tennessee, and Alabama
before coming to BellevueBaptistChurch
in 2005 as Senior Pastor.
He received a bachelor’s degree from UnionUniversity and a Master of Divinity
and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Gaines has served on denominational boards and committees, most notably the
Baptist Faith and Message Study Committee. He was President of the Southern
Baptist Pastors’ Conference in 2005 and has been the keynote speaker at many
denominational events.
His two books—Morning
Manna and When God Comes to Church—reveal
the heart of a man who walks with God and longs for genuine spiritual awakening
“when the glory of God once again fills the house of God.”
William
Lucy is the International Secretary-Treasurer of the 1.4 million-member
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO.
Lucy was first elected AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer in May 1972 and was
re-elected in July 2008 to another four-year term. Lucy is a former President
of Local 1675, Contra Costa County Employees Association of Contra Costa
County, California, where he was employed for 13 years.
Born in
1929, Rep. Conyers was raised in Detroit
and educated in the city's public school system. After serving in the National
Guard and the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Korean War, he
returned to Michigan where he earned both his
Bachelor of Arts (1957) and Juris Doctor (1958) degrees at WayneStateUniversity.
