The Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Association, Inc. held its Inauguration Ceremony honoring its new Moderator, Reverend Dr. Hosea L. Daniels, Pastor of New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. The inauguration ceremony was held at New Friendship on Friday, February 3, 2012. Pastors, ministers and congregants from around the State came to Tampa for the ceremony. Reverend Dr. T. W. Jenkins, 1st Vice Moderator and Pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Tampa, was the Toastmaster. The Inaugural message was by Dr. N. S. Sanders, Moderator Emeritus and Pastor of  Greater St. Paul First Baptist Institutional Church, Lakeland.  Rev. Dr. H. L and Mrs. Jeanie Daniels are seated. Standing, from left, Rev. James Harvey, Vice President At Large, Pastor, Holy Light M. B. Church, Havana; 3rd Vice Moderator and Pastor of St. Mary M. B. Church, Parrish, Dr. Fletcher and Mrs. Mazie Lawson; Dr. N. S. and Mrs. Betty Sanders; and President, Progressive M&E Baptist State Convention of FL and Pastor, St. John Progressive M. B. Church, Dr. and Mrs. Bartholomew (Vanessa) Banks, Sr. (Photograph by Lomax McIntyre)