Twenty Ninth Annual
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Community Commemorative Breakfast
A Day On Not a Day Off
Hosted by Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church
Lay Organization
Rev. William Cornick, Jr. Pastor
January 20, 2025
Embassy Suites
Albuquerque, NM
PASTORAL WELCOME
Rev. William Cornick, Jr. MDiv, MPsy, Pastor, Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church
On behalf of Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and VisionABQ, I welcome each of you in celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the theme “A Day On Not a Day Off.” As we look around our local community and abroad we find that social justice, social equity and the advocacy of human rights remain prevalent. As Dr. King believed and operated in the transformative power of education, there remains a call to action inspiring every person to be vigilant and persistent in activism. Success can be defined in varying capacities but it should encompass positive actions that promote change with love and compassion for all . Let us be reminded of one of his many quotes “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.”
SPEAKER
Goodie Goodloe
Leadership Development Consultant | MLK Jr. Scholar
A Compton, California native, Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe, Ph.D. is a leadership development professional. He mentors students and educators, business professionals, athletes and entertainers, and faith communities across the country on issues from cultural and interpersonal relationships to leadership, character formation, and faith. Goodie is on the pastoral care team of Flourishing Church, Los Angeles, and serves as one of the church’s elders.
He has worked with NCAA teams at universities across the United States, as well as Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the national and state levels, and professional football teams from the United States Football League and the NFL. Goodie serves on the Community Engagement Board and as a department chaplain for the Redondo Beach Police Department. He continues to work with both law enforcement and community activists, to foster better understanding and education on cooperative policing and matters of fairness and justice with respect to the judicial system.
Goodie is the author of three books: KingMaker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainers (2015), co-author of Habits: Six Steps to the Art of Influence (2017), and The Next Level: Growing with God…in His Word, Your Walk, and Your Worship (2022). He is a Martin Luther King Jr. scholar and has served as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University since 2012. He was a member of the inaugural cohort for Ph.D. studies at DBU (2005) and the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from that program (2011). In 2016, DBU established the Marcus Goodie Goodloe Scholarship in his honor, and in 2020, Goodie was selected to serve as Senior Fellow for Ethics and Justice at the DBU Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). In 2023, he was elected to the Board of Trustees for Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.
Goodie and his wife of twenty-six years, Lucy, live in the Los Angeles area and have two adult children.
Vision ABQ Inc.
1933 San Mateo Ave. NE #310
Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 350-1798
2025 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Zerrie Waters, President
Galvin Brown Jr, Secretary Treasurer
Dawn Smith, Director
Mildred Smith, Director
Kyle Fiore, Director
Sebrena Oliver, Director
Tim McCorkle, Director Board of Directors
IMANI COLE-ROBINSON
Albuquerque High School
CECILIA NYAANGA
Albuquerque High School
2024 SCHOLARSHIP DONORS
CORPORATE DONORS
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Cosmetic & Natural Dentistry
Mann Accounting & Fraud Solutions, LLC
Our Lady of Annunciation
Waters & Company, LLC
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Darren Buie
Kyle Fiore
LaVerne Hanks
Marilyn Pettes Hill
Richard Pettit
Mildred G. Smith
Herbert A. Thompson
Myron Wallace and Helen Wallace
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE VISION TO HELP OUR YOUTH LIVE THE DREAM!
Vision ABQ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation organized under the New Mexico Nonprofit Corporation Act. It was organized to assist minority, underprivileged, and low-income population for educational opportunities. You can partner with Vision ABQ Inc. by donating as an individual, as a family, in the name of your business or on behalf of a loved one. We need your help to Keep the Dream Alive!
Make checks payable to:
Vision ABQ Inc
1933 San Mateo NE #310
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Vision ABQ is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity, under Federal Tax ID #26-0155425
UPCOMING EVENTS
National Black HIV/AID Awareness Day Event
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Location: AAPAC
310 San Pedro Dr NE Albuquerque, NM 87108
African American Day at the Legislature
Date: Friday, February 14, 2025
Location: The Roundhouse
490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Hobbs Community Town Hall
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2025
Location: Pleasent Green Missionary Baptist Church
912 S McKinley Street Hobbs, NM 88241
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Black Women’s Month Celebration
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025
Location: TBD
Clovis Community Town Hall
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Location: Colonel Park Golf Course
1300 Colonial Pkwy, Clovis, NM 88101
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Presbyterian is proud to support the 2025 MLK Dream Weekend.
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Congratulations
“For this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” and rejoice we will. On behalf of the Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church Lay Organization I welcome each of you to our 29th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Breakfast. We thank each sponsor, organization, national, state and local political representives who continually support our celebration each year. Special thanks to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Commission.
Our annual celebration to Dr. King was the dream of Brother William Packer, Sr., a member of Grant Chapel who held the first breakfast in Grant Chapels Fellowship Hall. Look around at what God has done with Brother Packers dream.
Our Lay Organization has also been blessed to have members who shared Brother Packers dream and worked tirelessly to keep it alive. One such member was Sister Princess Kay Coleman-Walker. Sister Walker as a member of Grant Chapel volunteered her tireless services in the planning of our breakfast for many years.
Sister Princess Kay Coleman-Walker was called home to glory on December 26, 2024 from a life well lived. The Grant Chapel Lay Organization pray words of comfort to her husband Rev. David Walker, her mother Cecile Coleman and sister Cheryl Coleman.
Blessing to each of you.
Jessie Watkins Vice-President Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church Lay Organization
PASTORS OF GRANT CHAPEL AME CHURCH
Rev. Spotwood Rice 1882-1884
Rev. Jeremiah Lewis 1884-1885
Rev. J.F. Curtis 1885-1888
Rev. James W. Sanders 1888-1889
Rev. J.H. Waldon 1889-1890
Rev. Matt Jones 1890-1892
Rev. J.W. Sanders 1892-1894
Rev. Matt Jones 1894-1896
Rev. R. Carson 1896-1897
Rev. J.H. Bohaman 1897-1898
Rev. J.P. Watson 1898-1900
Rev. J.D. Barksdale 1901-1902
Rev. J.B. Porter 1902-1903
Rev. Matt. Jones &
Rev. W.T. Thornton 1903-1904
Rev. G.H. Byas 1904-1908
Rev. James Washington 1908-1909
Rev. N.H. Jones 1909-1910
Rev. J.W. Rogers 1910-1912
Rev. J.L. Jackson 1912-1913
Rev. J.W. Rogers &
Rev. D.H. Jones 1913-1914
Rev. William Hawkins 1914-1915
Rev. J.M. Endicott 1915-1917
Rev. G.G. Alexander 1917-1918
Rev. John L. Williams 1918-1920
Rev. S.R. Maguinez 1920-1923
Rev. A.C. Moore 1923-1924
Rev. J.M. Endicott 1924-1928
Rev. R.H. Harbert 1928-1929
Rev. E.C.W. Cox 1929-1932
Rev. W.E. Washington 1932-1935
Rev. A.H. Hamilton 1935-1940
Rev. B.H. Moore 1940-1942
Rev. D.C. Coleman, Sr. 1942-1947
Rev. Jerry W. Ford 1947-1950
Rev. C.N. Austin 1950-1953
Rev. A.H. Hamilton 1953-1955
Rev. D.C. Coleman, Sr. 1955-1960
Rev. L.K. Williams 1960-1963
Rev. George Grand 1963-1965
Rev. Leonard L. Bruce 1965-1975
Rev. A.N. Larkin 1975-1976
Rev. Harvey L. Vaughn, Jr. 1976-1977
Rev. S. Eugene Winn, Sr. 1977-1981
Rev. Milton Green 1981-1984
Rev. H. Charles Farris 1984-1985
Rev. Walter F. Fortune 1985-1993
Rev. Leander E. Coates 1993-1995
Rev. John D. MaGee 1995-1999
Rev. Delman E. Howard 1999-2002
Rev. John D. Hill 2002-2017
Rev. Donna M. Davis 2017-2021
Dr. Margaret Redmond-McFaddin 2021-2022
Dr. Jesse D. Dompreh, DMIN,BCC 2023-2024
Rev. William Cornick, Jr. Present
“LIFT EV’RY VOICE AND SING”
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring. Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast’ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee, Shadowed beneath thy hand, May we forever stand True to our Native land.
"WE SHALL OVERCOME"
We shall overcome, we shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome some day
The Lord will see us through, the Lord will see us through The lord will see us through some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe The Lord will see us some day
We’re on to victory, we’re on to victory
We’re on to victory some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We’re on to victory some day
We’ll walk hand in hand, we’ll walk hand in hand
We’ll walk hand in hand some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We’ll walk hand in hand some day
We are not afraid, we are not afraid We are not afraid today
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We are not afraid today
The truth shall make us free, the truth shall make us free
The truth shall make us free some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe The truth shall make us free some day
We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace
We shall live in peace some day
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe E shall live in peace some day
GRANT CHAPEL A.M.E CHURCH LAY ORGANIZATION
29th ANNUAL Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
COMMEMORATIVE BREAKFAST
Reverend William Cornick, Jr. MDiv,/MPsy, Pastor Monday, January 20, 2025, 8:00 A.M.
Please Silence Your Cell Phones and Any Other Electronic Devices
Mistress of Ceremony- Pamelya P. Herndon
New Mexico State Representative CEO, KWH Law Center for Social Justice and Change
Opening Hymn ............................................................................................... “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
Welcome & Occasion ......................................................................................................... Jessie Watkins, Vice-President, Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church Lay Organization
Invocation/Blessings Reverend Dr. Geleta A.S. Smith
The Word of God A.M.E Church Rio Rancho, New Mexico
BREAKFAST IS SERVED
Musical Selection ..................................................................................................... “Man In The Mirror” Grant Chapel’s Male Chorus
Vision ABQ/Scholarship Presentations .............................................................Dawn Smith, Director
Remarks .............................................................................................
Ben Ray Lujan, US Senator
Deb Haaland, Former US Secretary of the Interior
The Honorable Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of the State of New Mexico
The Honorable Timothy M. Keller, Mayor City of Albuquerque
Beverly A. Gaines, Acting Executive Director
Martin Luther King, Jr. State Commission
The Reverend Sheriolyn Curry-Hodge, Presiding Elder, Mountain Valley District
Introduction of Speaker ................................................................
Reverend Sheriolyn Curry-Hodge Presiding Elder Mountain Valley District
Musical Selection ........................................................................................................ “We Are The Ones” Grant Chapel’s Chancel Choir
Speaker of the Hour
Closing Remarks .................................................
Dr. Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe
Reverend William Cornick, Jr. MDiv, MPsy Pastor, Grant Chapel A.M.E Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Closing Hymn ........................................................................................................ ”We Shall Overcome”
Benediction
Reverend Damon Shelby, Gods House Church Albuquerque, New Mexico
Congratulations To Reverend William Cornick, Jr. & to our good neighbor Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church & to all who keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream alive! Our Lady of the Annunciation Church
