Of course, the contemporary translations say brothers and sisters. For our purpose of our theme, we are going to stay with brothers. I have had the privilege of rolling to this group brothers two brothers and i will be coming back and going back. When i asked them that i would like them to have a representative from mosaic to be on the program, they almost unanimously recommended Reginald Liles, welcome reginald. Great to have you, thank you for taking the time to be here this morning. One of the things before we get brothers to brothers, i always like my audience to know who you are. Share a little bit about what your experiences have been. I am raised in north oakland. Although i lived in other places in the city of oakland. I am a member of our in Temple Baptist church. I have been there for 40 years. I was a chairman of the deacon boyle at one time. Im a servant and believer. I Teach Sunday School class ix, its an adult class. Maybe 35 or 40 people attend each sunday. We really tri
The Administrative Assistant did such a fantastic job with the program and getting the invitations out and the creativity of the program. Then there was Marty Bennett who was my staff chair and they put it together. It was so dynamic. I will never forget that moment. It was so wonderful. All the people who came, the music was glorious. The director and the choir was superb. All the soloists i asked to sing from betty and marian in the choir along with kim and then there was janel, who is a professional singer who sings with the group called soldout band and then they had ron coleman. I grew up with him in los angeles. Hearthi hao a quartet. He plays the saxophone. People remember dear lord. All of those were just wonderful along with my speakers there and skyler was there, the superintendents, my colleagues and friends bobby jones and jim hopkins and then, also came was gail burrows, the wife of the late hill burrows. Our mentor and host and producer of mosaic for more than 30 years. I
And incorporated in the 70s as a joint effort with the evangelical association and one of the few remaining love child of that movement. We are there for the specific purpose of serving all the men, women and youth that are incarcerated in the Santa Clara County. A nonprofit. We are, part of the budget comes from the county. Part of the budget comes from local churches, faith communities and individuals who are supporting of this ministry can. Tell us a bit about the Santa Clara County system and who is there and how manysonserand wh kpopula the poonto t 3500 people. The last few years, the population was reduced. There is a womens jail and the mens facility. There is the main jail complex downtown san jose near the county and we are also active in the juvenile probation facilities. There are two of those. About 3500 people altogether. It is considered one of the super jails and i think about the 11th largest in the country at this point. When you say we, do you have other chaplains on
Sleep, and heal and riveting store every her life. Shows my guest and i am glad to have her. Welcome. Thanks. Good to be here, ron. Great. Great. Before we get into the book and memoir tell burst back ground and experiences. Well, i am from california, born and raised. Active in the United Methodist church and ended up going to semmary and becoming a pastor. Marrying my husband and having two little girl. Just loving every single minute of life and then one day i we went to fancy meal at a restaurant in lake tahoe. And something fell on my head and sustained a head and neck injure and havent worked and for 17 years i relied on a cane opioids, and wheelchair to get around. But you have worked. Well, i have written its taken me 8 years to write this book. And i do a little preaching with some of the head injury stuff and you have to rest in order to let the brain come online so to speak. So i do ally the at a time and the spirit and spirituality helped me find my way. Right. I read that.
He was the president of the clergy. Father j masters who we just lost not long ago was the president. We were mentored by the great senior and all that he did. Junior i met later. I had the privilege of marrying junior and his wife, elaine. They were reminded of that last year at the 100th anniversary of the temple. 40 some years. Then i moved that yoouldhear dr. Jackiejaie will in fairfield and i came to the Good Friday Services at beaver memorial. I dont remember what word she preached that she did leave some paint on the sanctuary but it was a electrifying a message. Today, we are honored to have the Senior Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist church, the first woman Senior Pastor reverend dr. Jaclyn thompson. Thank you for coming. Brothers to brother and the reverend Charlotte Williams and reverend longer had to make contact. I knew you all over the world. They made it and i am here. Im glad youre here. Tell us about your calling. It is phenomenal to have you as a pastor. Okay. The calli