at the high street presbyterian church and i was at the elmhurst united methodist church and we were involved with the clergy and the president was dr. j. alfred smith and he got us involved in the city council and the school board and our emphasis on social justice began then. hugh ended up being in el cerrito for 13 years and i was in richmond for 12 years. we continued our ministries together and 17 years ago, he asked me to host here. i was mentoring along with elizabeth, being a host and we are grateful for his ministry and we thank his wife, gail, for the wonderful celebration of his life that happened about five weeks ago in el cerrito. blessings to you and your family, gail. you ve been all over the world with you and have been to the ministry in pakistan. i ve always admired and appreciated that and we are grateful for everything he has done .1 of thpeshave, was howard thurmond, the great spiritual and religious giant among us. whenever i would have this guest on, he
Thankful and thoughtful, as he talks about having prayer on a sunday morning. Thankful that god has still has him here. I think he is still around. He is living in vallejo. So, i thought of that song, because theres so much to be thankful for and thoughtful about. Im thankful for being in ministry for 45 years and pastoring six churches and being a district superintendent. Im thankful for my colleagues and ministry over a number of years. And two of those colleagues were with me on easter and i invited them back to be with us. Great to have you, jim. Great to be here. Thank you. I think theres been some changes since we have seen you. Jim is the north star in oakland. Tell us where you are and how long youve been there. Im a pastor at lake shore Avenue Baptist Church. Corner of lake shore and mandana. Im soon to begin my 30th year there. You just a little longevity. And dale has had a change. After five great years at Good Samaritan United Methodist church in kuiperty cupertino, i am m
Based social Service Agencies in San Francisco, Lutheran Social Services can trace roots it back to the late 1800s. Like many of the immigrants that came at that time with their own faith traditions, the First Services were taking care of widows and orphans. Later they moved to taking care of seniors. It is what they did and what they still do today. Our official starting date in San Francisco those in the later years, we did Refugee Resettlement after the vietnam war. Since then, we have been serving people who have been homeless, or formerly homeless. We have a Significant Program serving People Living with hiv and aids. That is in San Francisco. But i know the territory covers all of Northern California which is a large territory. We go from oregon, to reno and all the way to hawaii. Tell us about some of the programs out in the east does northern bay and beyond the city. In contra costa county, we have a Youth Program for people learning to live as adults. We have a number of Youth
Want to fulfill. I our guests this morning says one of the goals that are probably innate to us, in aint to us in our dna is inherent to us in our dna is happiness. Aristotle says the meaning and purpose and aim of life is happiness. And we are going to explore that with their new booking the earn ital quest for happiness. Its my privilege to have long time friends as well as friends of mosaic with us this morning. Thank you for having us. Great to have you both. Thank you for having us. You have been with me a number of times over the years. This is my 16th year. Wow . And have you in previous times been with me. Its been a couple years now. So to see that you are still on the scene and writing books, tell us what you have been doing these couple years, you used to host Martin Luther king, junior service. You used to healing connection that you founded in 1989. That is correct. Tell us what else you are doing. What is new to your listening audience is weve been doing mirrors,. Thats r
We are now at 5 30 am so people get 30 minutes more to sleep in, we welcome you this day and we are blessed to have donald lacey junior who is an actor, writer, and producer and talkshow host, great to have you. God bless you, thank you for having me. Do you know if troy was waking up are going to bed when he saw the program . [laughter] that is a good one, he did not tell me. As i said to you earlier, you have an encyclopedia of experience, but let us talk with love life and how you produce this and how it was based. Thank you for the question, it was the idea of my 16year old daughter and her name means love life in english. She was a special young lady, i delivered her in the car while driving on the freeway at 3 30 am with one hand on the wheel and one hand between her mothers legs, to god be the glory, she survived the traumatic experience, she was a loving individual, the summer of 1997 a classmate of hers was murdered and she came to me and said she wanted me to help her write a