RECONCILIATION & FORGIVENESS CEREMONY
SUNDAY, JUNE 22. 2008
6:00 - RECEPTION

7:00 AWARDS CEREMONY

"HARAMBEE HEROES OF FREEDOM AWARDS"

FOLLOWED BY RECONCILIATION CEREMONY

EMANUEL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE

THE GOSPEL MUSIC & NEGRO SPIRITUALS

THAT UNDERGIRDED OUR PEOPLE THROUGHOUT TIME

ACROSS THE STREET

AND ACROSS THE WATERS

GUEST MINISTERS & SPEAKERS

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2000 Dr. Martin Luther King * Mobile, AL 36605
ELDER MAKINDE A. GBOLOHAN

&

ECUMENICAL MINISTERIAL STAFF WILL OFFICIATE

WE ARE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER
FORGIVENESS IS ONE OF THE POWERFUL ACTS DEEDS A HUMAN CAN PERFORM. IT INSTANTLY FREES THE ONE WHO FORGIVES FROM BITTERNESS AND ANGER WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY FREEING THE RECIPIENT FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE BURDEN OF GUILT...

THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS JUNETEENTH COMMITTEE
HUMBLY WELCOMES YOU TO THE CLOSING NIGHT

"RECONCILIATION CEREMONY"

AFRICA & I'TS DIASPORA

BROTHER TO BROTHER

SISTER TO SISTER

NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR

PARENT TO CHILD

HUSBAND TO WIFE

CO-WORKERS

COME LAY YOUR DIFFERENCEES AT THE ALTAR

LET US COME TOGETHER IN THE SPIRIT OF LOVE AND ONENESS
PUT YOUR DIFFRENCES ASIDE AND FREE YOURSELF

WORDS OF MATHIEU KEREKOU, FORMER

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN BELOW
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“We owe to ourselves never to forget these absent ones standing among us who did not die of their own death, to acknowledge our share of responsibility in the humiliation and opprobrium, to feel shame for what our other absent ones did, to look differently at the false images, to surrender to forgiveness in order to start afresh and pursue our goal towards progress, and free ourselves from misery without succumbing to vanity of material possession. For Africans, this awareness opens the way to forgiveness and reconciliation”.
............Former Benin President, Mathieu Kerekou