{"id":119797,"date":"2021-08-04T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=119797"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:45:40","slug":"street-renaming-ceremony-honors-late-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=119797","title":{"rendered":"STREET RENAMING CEREMONY HONORS LATE PASTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>STREET RENAMING CEREMONY HONORS LATE PASTOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Grace Mary Missionary Baptist Church held a Street Renaming Ceremony last week to honor their former pastor, the late Elder Dr. Thomas Jefferson Reed. The new sign was posted at the corner of 37<sup>th<\/sup> St. and 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Ave. The 3800 block of 37<sup>th<\/sup> St. will bear Elder Reed\u2019s name. Among those attending the ceremony were: seated, Mrs. Mary Reed, Elder Reed\u2019s widow; standing from left, Pastor Dwight Newkirk, Pastor of St. John Cathedral; former Fire Chief, Deacon Tom Forward of Grace Mary; Rev. Dr. Bartholomew Banks, Pastor, St. John Progressive M. B. Church, President, of Florida\u2019s Progressive M&amp;E Baptist State Convention, and Vice President At-Large, National Baptist Convention of America International, Inc.; Deacon Woodrow Simmons of Grace Mary; Dr. Jeffery Singletary, Central Regional Catalyst For Florida Baptist Convention and Huddle Touch CEO; Dr. Marilyn Loblack, Elder Reed\u2019s daughter; Pastor Paul Buster, Pastor, New Macedonia M. B. Church; Pastor Victor Mack, Oak Park Baptist Church; City Council Chair Orlando Gudes; and Pastor James Reed, current pastor of Grace Mary M. B. Church. (Photograph by Tonya Lewis, Children With A Vision, Inc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STREET RENAMING CEREMONY HONORS LATE PASTOR \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Grace Mary Missionary Baptist Church held a Street Renaming Ceremony last week to honor their former pastor, the late Elder Dr. Thomas Jefferson Reed. The new sign was posted at the corner of 37th St. and 33rd Ave. The 3800 block of 37th St. will bear Elder Reed\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":119798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}