Monday, January 21, 2013, 7:00 AM
SHERATON IMPERIAL HOTEL, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK
RALEIGH, NC
Intro
PRESIDING OFFICER
The Reverend Dr. Dumas A. Harshaw, Jr. Pastor
First Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
Chairman, North Carolina Martin Luther King Commission
CONFIRMED
PROCEDURAL BLESSINGS
The Reverend Hope Morgan Ward, Resident Bishop
United Methodist Church Conference of N.C.
Garner, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE LIFT EVRY VOICE & SING
All Please Stand
WELCOME
Mr. Marty Clayton, Director
Corporate & Community Relations
Progress Energy Corporation
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
MUSICAL SOLO TO DR. KING
The Reverend G.L. Edmond, Pastor
Saint Paul AME Church
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
GREETINGS
The Honorable Vivian A. Jones, Mayor
Town Of Wake Forest, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
GREETINGS
The Honorable William V. Bell, Mayor
City Of Durham, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
GREETINGS
The Honorable Nancy McFarlane, Mayor
City Of Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
A GOOD DAY ON MANY LEVELS
Mrs. Debra Tyler-Horton
Associate State Director for Multicultural Outreach
AARP North Carolina
CONFIRMED
EXPANSION OF MLK MEMORIAL GARDENS
Mr. Dennis E. Pitts, President
McNeely Architectural Associates
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
HAPPY TRAILS BRUCE
Mr. James F. Goodmon, President
Capitol Bradcasting Company & WRAL-TV
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
RETIREMENT FAREWELL TO MY BELOVED COMMUNITY
Mr. Bruce E. Lightner, Founder & Chairman
Raleigh Martin Luther King Celebration Committee
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
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THIS DAY & WHY WE ARE PROUD TO BE A PART
Mr. Gerald Owens, Anchor
WRAL-TV News
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
THE YOUTH SHALL RISE
Mr. Oshe Pittman, Senior
James Kenan High School
Warsaw, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE
Rabbi Lucy Dinner
Remple Beth Or Synagogue
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
PRAYER FOR EQUALITY & RECONCILIATION
The Reverend Nancy Huslage, President
Triangle Interfaith Alliance
Durham, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
PRAYER FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE
The Revernd Dr. Peter Morris, Executive Director
Urban Ministries
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
INTRODUCTION OF THE GOVERNOR
Mr. Orage Quarles III, President & Publisher
News & Observer Publishing Company
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
A FEW WORDS FROM OUR NEW GOVERNOR
The Honorable Patrick L. McCrory, Governor
State Of North Carolina
CONFIRMED
MUSICAL SELECTION
The Incomparable Wray Sisters
Gethsemane Seventh Day Adventist Church
Raleigh, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mr. Lawrence E. Wray
Former Assistant City Manager, City Of Raleigh
Chairman, Raleigh Business & Technology Center
CONFIRMED
SPECIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Reverend Dr. Ronald Smith, President
Southern Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
Decatur, Georgia
CONFIRMED
BENEDICTION & LAST WORD
Dr. Jerry Head, Jr., Chairman
Durham Martin Luther King Steering Committee
White Rock Baptist Church
Durham, North Carolina
CONFIRMED
THE PARTNERSHIP GROWS
This breakfast is free and open to the public. Our sincere gratitude to Capitol Broadcasting Company for twenty-six years of continuous sponsorship of the Triangle Martin Luther King Interfaith Prayer Breakfast.
The Reverend Dr. Ronald C. Smith, M.Div., D. Min, Psy PhD
Dr. Smith, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a product of Christian education. He is the son of Christian parents, and his father was in the Seventh-day Adventist gospel ministry.
Dr. Smith is a graduate of Oakwood University, formerly Oakwood College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology and Biblical Languages. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University Theological Seminary in 1982. Dr. Smith earned two doctoral degrees.
In 1985, the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York, conferred the Doctor of Ministry degree upon him. In 1995, he graduated with a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena, California.
Dr. Smith has served in the Seventh-day Adventist gospel ministry for 33 years, including work in the Northeastern and Southern California conferences.
Among the various pastoral assignments he executed, he served as Senior Pastor of the Berean Church in Los Angeles, California, and the Ephesus Church in Harlem, New York. Dr. Smith is a registered clinical psychologist and a marital and family therapist.
He served for eight years at the post of Vice President of the Review and Herald Publishing Association and Editor-in-Chief of Message magazine, the oldest Black missionary Christian lifestyle periodical in North America.
On September 18, 2011 Dr. Smith was elected President of the Southern Union Conference which covers the areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. He has been married to Yolanda for 33 years. They have two children, Dawn and Ron II, who are graduates of Oakwood University.
Ron II is a pastor in the Southeastern Conference and is completing his M.Div. degree at Andrews University.