[Applause] Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Hall [Applause] H Hall Glor [Applause] All Hy to [Applause] GL For The king of My Glor Those Ministries that are going to make tributes would you please assemble over on my right your left those that have tributes that are to be made would you please assemble to my right your left the Usher of the deacon Beverly TS will give you directions from that point GL the Pr We With You you [Applause] we God be with you still Be [Applause] Jesus We with You be with you still We We are we are climing Jacob we are we are [Applause] climing [Applause] [Applause] Jacob every round [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] goer do you do Think Make [Applause] make [Applause] God Glor [Applause] [Applause] God glory keep on keep climing cling we will We [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Will we [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Arec Your Fre Your fre solders [Applause] of [Applause] Than All Rise [Applause] yeah You may be Seated This is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it I say this is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it our call together comes from the first Psalm it says blessed is the man that walketh not in
The counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of Sinners nor sth in the seat of the scornful but his Delight is in the law of the Lord and in it do he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that
Bringeth forth fruit in its season his Leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall shall prosper the ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away they shall not stand but therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the Judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the
Righteous for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly Shall Perish l lift up your heads lift up your heads oh ye gates and the king of glory shall come in who is this king of glory the lord strong and mighty the
Lord Mighty in battle lift up your heads oh oh ye gates and be ye lifted up ye Everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is this king of glory the lord of hosts he is the king of glory we welcome you to this
Celebration of a great man a powerful man a Godly Man the Reverend Dr Charles Gilchrist Adams amen amen and amen [Applause] at this time we’ll have our opening prayer coming from the Reverend lissi Stokes to God be the glory for This Magnificent life of a the Magnificent Son of God let us bow our heads kind glorious Redeemer and God we thank you for the Magnificent life of Dr
Charles gilchris Adams we thank you for this ministry and we thank you Lord for all that he did throughout his ministry work we thank you for each person that got here tonight safely and those that are on the way God in heaven we ask that you would enter this place with us guide
Our thoughts and mind so that we can worship you in spirit and in truth God we give you all the glory for this gathering tonight and all that will be done bless each of us Lord as we as we move closer and closer to that day of
Tomorrow we’ll be sure to give you all all the glory all the honor all the praise God you’re a good God and we thank you Lord for giving us Dr Charles gilchris Adams well for over 54 years to God be the glory in Jesus name we say Amen And Now I [Applause] all [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] l How great how great thou are show out on your birthday At this time we would like to bring the new a chapter of Omega Sci-Fi fraternity Incorporated for their Omega service ushers please stop all Movement Lord thou have been our Dwelling Place in all generations before the mountains were brought forth and ever thou had us formed the earth and the world even from Everlasting to Everlasting Thou Art God th turth man to destruction and sayth return ye Children of Men for a thousand years in thy sight
Are but as yesterday when it is pass and as a watch in the night thou carest them away as with a flood they are as asleep in the morning they are like grass which growth up in the morning it flourishes and growth up in the evening it is cut down and and
Withered for we are consumed by thy anger and by thy wrath are we troubled I have set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance for all of our days are passed away in the Wrath we spend our years as a tale that is
Told for the days of our years are three scores and 10 and if by reason of strength they be four score Years yet is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away who knoweth the power of thy anger even according to thy fear so is thy
Wrath so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom precious Lord take my hand lead me on let me stand I am Tired I am weak I [Laughter] want through through the storm through the night lead me on to the light take my hand precious Lord lead me home I’m Chad rhs 59 bossus of new omega chapter our deepest condolences to the Harford Memorial Baptist Church family friends as well as the family of our
Beloved brother we are assembled here to pay our last respects to a member of our fraternity as all life must perish and even as we must has come to the crossing of the Great Divine so has our brother reached that stage let us then resign ourselves to
The will of the Supreme bosis of the universe here making our final rights to this our departed brother brother and keeper brother of Keepers and seal will you read the memorial Omega Sci-Fi fraternity new omega chapter Detroit Michigan chapter resolution the Supreme bosses of the universe has once again visited our
Beloved organization and called our beloved brother Reverend Dr Charles G Adams to Eternal rest brother Adams entered the fraternity sacred fold through new GA chapter in the city of Detroit January 28th 1984 brother Adams was active with new omega the 10th district and all of Omega serving Faithfully for 39
Years brother Adams exemplified our Cardinal principles of manhood scholarship perseverance and uplift Psalms 37:23 reads the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and He Delights in his way way Omega was brother Adam’s chosen way of life he was a model for all Omega men
Who will always be remembered but can never be replaced therefore it be resolved that new omega chapter The Talented 10th District expressed to his family our most sincere and heartfelt condolences we pray that the Supreme bases of the universe and His Infinite Wisdom strengthens and comforts you be
It further resolve that new omega chapter in respect to the memory of our departed brother joins with the community and mourning his loss Brothers you have heard the record of our departed brother he has been a Shining Light in the bright crown of Omega the radiance of his star will
Furnish a guiding Ray to many who will come after him to seek the light that is Omega the members of of our fraternity are are bound inseparably by a chain of friendship and Brotherhood that makes the joys of one the joys of all that makes the sorrow of a brother a common
Lot we share the burdens toils and cares of every one of us we also share our happiness and our pleasure our hopes and dreams our very life this comradeship my brothers extends even to and yet beyond the grave neither height nor depth nor walls however high or wide can foil the Deep
Desire of all of us to be at peace with those our brothers and whatever state they be brothers give ear to the Champlain who will speak Brothers in this hour our hearts and the minds of others who knew our departed brother are heavy with sorrow the silent Shadow death has
Again visit our Omega Force of life and failed one of our sturdy trees but we do not sorrow as men without hope the manner in which we live influence our attitude towards death we are instructed that manhood scholarship person perseverance and uplift shall be the
Rules of Life by which we live he who has lived the manly life is well prepared to face death to be manly is to live a life of high principles to have a goal and to be courageous in obtaining of that goal the steadfast adherence to so Noble a concept difficult though it
May be must of NE necessity be of inestimable value in the development of Sterling characters to be a man May well mean to be a martyr to a CA but the end of martydom is that which has lived not as craving cowards but as those glorious
Men who have left to all mankind a record written in the blood of sacrifice a record to be read by many who will come after if we have lived as men it cannot be but that we will die as men when die we must that we shall continue
To hold a loft the banner of omega as nobly as he our departed brother in doing so we may be assured that the life we now memorialize will serve as a beacon to guide some other person into that life which is circumscribed by omega’s Cardinal principle let us
Pray thou oh God North are downsitting in our Uprising and understandeth our thoughts arear shield and defend us from all evil thoughts and intentions support us under the trials and afflictions we are destined to endure while traveling through the veil of tears again
Man that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of trouble he comes forth like a flower and Withers he flees like a shadow and continues not since his days are determined and the number of his months is with thee and thou has
Appointed his bound that he cannot pass look away from him and assist that he may Joy like a hirling his day for there is hope for a tree if it be cut down that it will Sprout again and that the shoots will not cease but man dies and
Is laid low man breathes his last breath and where is he as Waters fall from a lake and a river waste away and dries up so man lies down and Rises not not again till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be aroused out of his
Sleep yet oh Lord have compassion on the children of thy creation am Minister them comfort in the time of trouble save them with an everlasting salvation oh God the Supreme bossless of the universe the Creator sustainer and the last Repose of All Mankind we commend to thy
Eternal keeping the soul of our departed brother we know that in thy love and mercy he may find the confidence and rest that all men seek we command him to thee as into the hands of a loving father who cares for his children remember him oh Lord according to the
Favor that thou bearest to all thy people grant that increasing in knowledge and love thee he may go from strength to strength in the life of perfect service in thy Heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen May the God of Peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus
Christ the great Shepherd of the Sheep through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant make us perfect in every work to do his will working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever amen Brothers all things are now well and fittingly accomplished I hereby
Instruct the keep of records and seals to strike from the role of new omega chapter of Omega SciFi fraternity brother Dr Reverend Charles G Adams and commend to the Supreme keeper of records and seals of the fraternity throughout all eternity that he inscribe our departed brother’s name on the roles
Of Omega chapter which shall furnish light and adornment in even greater degree than here on Earth oh May dear we are thine own thou our love Our love our own will sing thy praise this far and night will love Oh to all thy Precepts make us true live nobly all real men do let manhood be our eternal o Shrine with faith in God and heart and mind through days of Joy or years of pain to serve the air will be our and when we say all goodbye will love oh through days of Joy or years of pain to serve the air will be our and when we say all last goodbye will love [Applause] oh this concludes our mea service once again condolences to the [Applause] Family We thank the brothers of new omega chapter of Omega scii forat Incorporated at this time we welcome the 33 degree Masons for a memorial service by the commanders of the right Scottish right service Brothers of the 30 three of the Scottish right would you come at this Time For for Michigan commanders of the right ancient and accepted Scottish right of Freemason in Prince Hall affiliation Northern jurisdiction USA Inc resolution of respect we the members of the Michigan commanders of the right would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to Grand Inspector General Reverend Dr
Charles Gilchrist Adams 33r third degree the illustrious sers of the Orient of Michigan are sad to hear of the passing of Dr Adams we would like to express our sincere condolence to Mrs Agnes Adams Tara Adams Washington and Reverend Charles Christian Adams and the Harford Memorial Church family at this bereaved
Time the Michigan commanders of the right will continually Keep The Adams Family and Harford Memorial Church in our thoughts and prayers during these days and nights to come Dr Adams wore many badges and titles and honors husband pastor pastor of pastors Professor president father brother champion for justice linguists prophetic
Speaker peer lecturer and counselor most importantly man of God fraternally submitted Grand Inspector General Baron SE Walker 33rd degree president Patrick Davis vice president ancient and accepted Scottish W masery Prince Hall affiliation Northern jurisdiction USA Incorporated Wolverine consist number six Valley of Detroit Orient of Michigan resolution of
Condolence the solemn notes have again alarmed our outer door the Supreme architect of the universe has summoned our beloved freighter Grand Inspector General Reverend Charles G Adams from labor to reward Grand Inspector General Reverend Charles G Adams with a 33rd degree Mason he was a most learned and humble freighter
Wrought with exceeding skill he shall not easily be replaced therefore be it resolved that we his freighter of Wolverine consistory number six expressed to the bere family of our beloved freighter Grand Inspector General Reverend Charles G Adams our most heartfelt and sincere condolence in this hour that we pray that our heavenly
Father will strengthen and comfort them be it further resolve that in respect to the memory of our departed freighter a copy of this resolution be tendered to the B family and a copy P placed in The Archives of this consist in testimony whereof I have set my hand and have
Caused the Seal of this consist a for said be here to affix this 14th day of the month of December ad 2023 Al 6023 Edward McIntosh 32nd degree illustrious commander in chief stepen M kofer senior 33rd degree secretary and Keeper of the seal and archives respectable and perfect nights here
Assembled there Comes A Time in life when in the Fulfillment of man’s Destiny we must bid a final farewell to the hopes the aspirations the joys and the Sorrows of mortal life and we realize poignantly that the severance of the bonds of friendship and affection is attended with profound sorrow to those who
Remain so once again we stand by the side of one who has passed through through the open door into life Immortal once again from sincere Hearts we speak a message of love and sympathy to those who are bered we would comfort them as we ourselves have been comforted with those Eternal truths upon
Which Freemasonry rests belief in God and faith in immortality God was in the beginning even before light was and he spoke into being the world and all that therein is recognizing that his never-failing Providence orderthe and Earth we as Masons invoke his Divine assistance at the beginning of all our
Undertakings respectable night president tell it lead us in our prayers let us pray oh merciful and loving father who has made our present life but temporary and has decreed that the pains and Sorrows of suffering virtue the misery of the oppressed and the tyranny of the wicked shall not be
Perpetual we thank thee for the assurance and Consciousness which thou H has implanted in us that thou do exist and that we are not annihilated when thou withdraw from our body thy Breath of Life and while the Earth by thy will takes into its bosom these mortal
Remains and they are dissolved and Unite with the clay the air and the running water to enter into new and everchanging combinations may we continue in firmly hoping and believing that the very self of our brother is with thee and Immortal and that thou will pity and forgive his
Errors and reward him for his labors in the cause of Truth and virtue amen amen amen and amen Almighty father of the universe before whom all creative intelligence shall bow in re revelation Almighty father before whom all creative intelligence should bow in Humble alteration enable us thy needy creature
To approach thee in this hour of Affliction with a reverential awe that is due from a creature to a Creator look with pity and compassion we beseech thee upon the sorrows and afflictions of the relatives and Friends of this deceased brother Comfort them oh Father with a
Sense of thy goodness lift upon them the light of thy continence and give them peace may they be disposed to say from the depths of their heart the lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord and oh God whose days are Without End and whose mercies
Cannot be numbered make us all all we humbly beseech thee deeply sensible of the shortness and uncertainty of human life may the impressive scene now before us induce us to be wise while we may and prepare for a speedy departure through that undiscovered land from whose born no traveler return
Amen amen am am our brother has finished his Earthly probation death is the inexorable creditor whose Indulgence nothing in this world can purchase every moment that sees a newborn child laugh at the light sees also a man die and here’s the Cry of an aching heart and the Lamentations of those who
Sit lonely and in the desolation of Affliction no longer seeing faces of dearly loved ones round the little island of our being upon which we follow our various Pursuits of toil or craft or usefulness or mischief throbs the illimitable ocean of Eternity upon which round the aisle a broad circle of impenetrable
Darkness brooding lies but beyond that zone the outer ocean Sparkles and its white Crest waves dance in the light and somewhere in the distance the island of the Blessed Are Dreaming girdled by the Peaceful Waters here in our present home we live our little lives waiting to be called to other duties
Elsewhere and one by one our loved ones and our cherished friends Glide away from us unseen and are swallowed up in the darkness which is the shadow of the broad wings of death each of us belongs ons to some little colony of hearts that ha a life of its own a
Private and inner life apart from that of the mass of humanity which edies round it in Endless agitation having with it no sympathies nor any memories of Association when one of its members dies it is as if a limb has been severed from the body the wound
Heals but the limb is missed as long as the body lives thus has the body of our order been here mutilated today and therefore we mourn respectable night pret now as in all other hours of trial may we be comforted by some of the precious words from the book of our religion
The Souls of the righteous are in the hands of God no torment shall touch them they are at peace and their hope is full of immortality they were honored in their generation and were the glory of their times the bodies are buried in peace but the names live forever more for we
Know that if the Earthly House of our Tabernacle be dissolved we have a building from God a house not made with hands Eternal in the heavens I had not seen no ear had not heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love
Him the Lord is my shepherd I share and I want he maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures he leadth me beside Still Waters he restoreth my soul he leads me in the path of righteousness for his name’s sake yeah though I walk through the valley of the
Shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemy th anoint my head with oil my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow
Me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever with me f for the even time the darkness deep Lord with me AB when of the helpers f and Comfort help of the helpless oh with me our brother has passed beyond the sounds of our voices and the touch of our hands but he has not passed beyond the reach of memory and love in the lodge of perfection he was taught to distinguish between the things of time and the
Glories of Eternity he learned that Justice and righteousness are Eternal that a character built upon honor and duty is deathless and that love and memory can not die they are not gone who pass beyond the clasp of hands out from the close Embrace we are but come so
Close we need not grope with hands to look to see nor try to catch the sounds of feet they have put off their shoes softly to walk by Day within our thoughts to tread at night our dreamled paths of sleep they are not lost to find the Sunset
Gate the goal of all their faithful years not lost are they who reach the summit of their climb the Peaks above the clouds and storm they are not lost to find the light of sun and stars and God this once busy brain is still and
Dead it will plan no more its work is done May the grace of our father who is in heaven bless the soul of which it was the instrument these eyes will no longer look upon Earth man oh These Eyes will no longer look upon the
Sun the stars of the Earth or the faces of other men may the blessing of Our Father who is in heaven make our brother to see the truth more clearly in the new life put your flow here put your flow in the thank you you’re welcome this heart no longer beats and
It sto forever no feeling or affection are his tenants now may Our Father who is in heaven forgive the weakness and reward the generous loving kindness of our brother the work of these hands is done May our brother for all their true and Earnest work find favor With Our Father who is in
Heaven thank you the feet of our brother would know more go on errands of Mercy nor follow the dead to the Grave nor tread the fleety path their work is done and may Our Father who is in heaven keep our brothers feet in the true way I love lay Upon This
Heart which is now still and cold the jewel which our brother while living always were with honor and may the influence of our brother for good that does survive him be continually expanded and increased to benefit his fellow man and may Our Father who is in heaven in his
Wisdom counteract and Anno all those that tend to evil so M it be amen amen amen and all around I see oh thou Chang with me in all ages and with all peoples the ring has been considered an emblem of fidelity and constancy and for this reason it is appropriately employed in
The many ceremonies to typify unswerving allegiance to one’s engagement its form reminds us of Eternity for it is without beginning and without ending and it speaks to us of the goodness of all wise Providence of the Creator from within the circle of whose love we dwell and teaches us that these
Are the duties to God our neighbors and ourselves which surrounds us at all times conted from pure gold it serves admirably to direct our attention to the things which are precious and desirable and to exclude those which are but draws to those of the Scottish right of
Freemasonry the ring has these and many other meetings it binds the brother to the order and to all that it signifies and upon the hand which is now quiet and Powerless it was a constant reminder of those attributes he valued so highly the just and upright life he led honored the
Fraternity and we may with reason conclude that this ring was ever an inspiration in his sight our brother has completed the cycle of his Earthly existence having unswervingly adhered to the tenants of the order it now becomes our duty to fulfill for him his final obligation as the representative of the presiding officer
Of the order I place in the keeping of the one for whom it was destined our brothers ring although apparently silent it yet speaks for him and this is its message through all the years to come should sorrow or Misfortune ever come to your door let this ring be constant
Assurance that you have at your command FR Eternal friendship and assistance which shall never fail our brother is absent for a while but he leaves with you this message of comfort through this golden symbol my Brethren the duty we owed the dead is performed it remains that we who are alive should so live and by our actions so attend the coming of the day of faith that we neither be surprised nor leave our sins uncan know our duties imperfect know our persons unreconcile nor God
Unappeased but that when our bodies in their turns descends to their graves our souls May Ascend to the regions of Eternal Light wherein is the Holy House of the Heavenly Temple of the Lord our departed Freer has left us a legacy of a Wells spent life I must admonish you that we his
Legatees receive the same for our Soul’s good for the lessons with death continually repeats are impatiently listened to and soon forgotten and so it has been since the making of the world and so it will be until the end men will continue to live riotously and toil and
Plot as if they were never to die and as unconcernedly seeing others carry to their graves as the Green Leaves of an oak sees a single leaf wither and drop untimely in the summer let us implore the help of the father of all men and Masons that it be not so with us
Venus has lit her silver lamp low in the purple West casting a soft and mellow light upon the Sea’s full breast in one clear path as if to guide some pale wayf firing guest far out far out the Restless bar starts from a troubled sleep where roaring through the narrow Straits
The meeting Waters leap but still that shining pathway leads across the lonely deep when I Sail Out that narrow straight where unknown dangers be and cross the troubled moaning bar to the mysterious sea dear God wilt thou not set Al lamp low in the West for me oh grandm of the
Universe which is thy home grant that we here before thee may be set free from the fear of vicissitudes and the fear of death death may we finish what remains before us of our course without dishonor to ourselves or hurt to others and when the day come may we die in
Peace Deliver Us From Fear and favor from mean hopes and cheap Pleasures have mercy on each in his deficiency let him not be cast down support The Stumbling on the way and give at last rest to the weary grant us these things in the name of thy son our brother Jesus Christ
Amen amen amen and amen blessed be the ti that binds ah in Chris Love The Fellowship of k m is like to that above oh Lord Our God dismiss us now from this occasion with thy blessing but not from thy gracious presence continue to walk at our side
And grant us thy peace both now and forever more amen amen and amen to all more especially madam and the family we thank you for the honor and the privilege of Performing this our homegoing service for our fallen breth I’m going off a script this ain’t in it but just bear with
Me December 15th 1987 the happiest time in my life but one of the worst days I’ve ever had I just bought a brand new 1987 Mercury mercur I was on my way out of the dealer parking lot at 3:10 p.m. and my phone rang and my sister
Said Tyrone go see about daddy daddy dead December 15th that’s the day but it’s a Memory that I never don’t for won’t forget him won’t forget that day but moreover I cherished my father okay and I couldn’t be any place else and I thank you I thank you the services today were performed
By I’m going to just say Michigan commanders of the right but Wolverine conens number 12 I’m the Long Wolf I’m a visitor I don’t live here I’m a country boy so I’m going go back to the country when I leave but uh there was nothing better that could
Have been done so with that thanking the family if you need anything make sure Wolverine Wolverine and especially that guy third guy off the seat right there that guy right there Wolverine make sure you contact if you need anything but if you do need me I’m just a phone call away okay okay
So having done that having concluded we’re going to give our oh sitting here is from the Chicago area Jeremiah Wright a grand Inspector General 33rd degree Mason having having concluded we will I will ask most illustrious commanderin-chief Sovereign Grand Inspector General Christopher Buck most worshipful Grandmaster of the most worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge free and accepted masons The Honorable Barett C Walker Sovereign Grant Inspector General the illustrious Deputy of the Bahamas and Sovereign Grand inspectors General
Illustrious commanders in Chiefs illustrious serves Grand inspectors General Sublime princes all please assist me and giving our departed Freer our last Sovereign salute Heart Should I H All To H H H all h [Applause] All We thank the brothers the Shriners 33 degree Brothers for that moving tribute as we continue with our program we have invocation coming from the Reverend V Lonnie Peaks Jr okay okay let me exhale Here good evening Harford and Harford family uh we find ourselves in this occasion to celebrate the life and the Legacy and the spiritual impetus of Dr Charles guilis Adams you know one of the things about PA and that’s what we call him that made it such an interesting phenomenon
Is that he didn’t touch your life he changed your life he changed your life and he had that infectious laugh he Pat you on the back and he’d walk away and you would think that he might have forgotten you and and and the impact that he had on you but he never
Forgot I remember one time I was working with him and I’m only going to take 30 seconds seconds I remember one time I was working with him and he says Peak I’ll never forget what you did to help me and that’s exactly what he did
Because he was not only a man of God but a man of principle PA was a gift to us the lord gave us a gift and you know like on Christmas when you open your gifts and ah you had the same emotional uh eruption with him because his gift kept
On giving he never got stale he always knew who you were he knew what your name was and he knew the relationship that he had with you was so important God’s timing is so important because we were gifted because God did not have to deposit PA in our
Lifespan he could have been in another Century but God saw fit to give him to us and I thank God for that I thank God because somebody else could have enjoyed him but he says no I’m going to give him to y’all so y’all can enjoy him so let us pray let us
Pray dear Lord we come to you today thanking you for all you have done and all you have considered doing put you might have changed your mind because we know that in your Infinite Wisdom the decisions that you make are decisions based upon your wisdom not our understanding so we
Come here tonight lifting up that that the the soul of your servant Lord he preached himself dry Lord he gave everything he had he left nothing on the table and we are so glad that we had him and we were able to share his glorious gifts so we simply thank you as simple
As that is we can say thank you now Lord as we as we move forward we we ask for a special blessing with Charles Christian Adams we would ask that that that you allow him to to create his own footprint his own steps we’re not looking for him to be a
PA we’re looking for him to be who he is so may we support him may we guide him may we lift him up when he’s down Lord because he has a heavy cross on his shoulders and he can’t carry it by himself so Lord we want to thank you for the
Father thank you for the sun oh where have we heard that before thank you for the father and thank you for the son we we ask for special blessings on his family during this time of transition and understand that we all have been gifted and blessed to be in the sunlight of Charles
Gilg Adams now Lord we look for the leadership we look for the leadership of Charles Christian Adams may he take us the heights we don’t know about may he open doors we don’t even know exist may he move us through mountains may he lift us up in Low
Places may he water us when we need water lord through your Holy Spirit now we’re looking forward to what you’re going to do we know what you did now we want to know what you’re going to do bless us bless this great Church of Jesus Christ and we thank you oh Lord
That you gave us him in his time now we move on to another time in jesus’ name we say amen amen thank you Father for Charles Gil Chris Adams amen amen amen glory be to God Amen amen amen as if we did not know why we were
Here like to call on the person that could best explain it the son our pastor the Reverend soon to be Doctor Charles Christian Adams So you may be seated and it looks like to the ushers we do have room up front here I just want to thank everybody for sharing this tribute uh and I will say this because I’m not going to come back up tonight uh thank you to all of uh those who will bring
Tributes uh thank thank you to all of those who have spoken thus far thank you for everybody body who has organized and made this possible thank you for those who sat through the day I peaked in here and watched you listen to Pa’s sermons
And just sit with him um and and I know because I did that what a blessing that is just to sit with him we know his spirit is with God there’s a certain comfort in his physical presence and I just thank God for this Brazil dinar Corral who will serve on
Tonight he knew and loved Brazil dinard and knew and loved and supported the Brazil dard Corral the Harvard choir will sing on tomorrow tonight we will hear from them and uh we only have I’ll just say it Curtis we only have until 8:00 cuz we got to get our rest for
Tomorrow right so all the speakers you have two minutes cuz you cannot tell it all and then the music will begin to play 2 minutes and 15 seconds Curtis will stand up by the time you hit 230 he’ll be standing right here and uh Reverend Sandman will be in full effect God bless
Let’s just sit back have a good time my father love music he loved church but he used to say just because it’s Eternal doesn’t mean it has to be Everlasting so we [Applause] what thank you Pastor took some of my thunder but anyhow will now be blessed by the Brazil dinard Coral under the leadership of sister Alice [Applause] Tillman E How of Host of host Our Ising place oh Lord Of H for for my soul long F Long of the Lord my soul and body [Applause] cry my soul and body cry [Applause] How love is my oh of host oh lord of [Applause] host Let with my heart [Applause] Name ever pra [Applause] Praise [Applause] GL How [Applause] How [Applause] place amen the Brazil dard Corral it’s time for tributes please don’t make me be ugly two minutes two minutes two minutes two minutes thank you that’s tight Reverend that’s real tight good evening evening everyone my name is Johnny Northern and I’m a deacon here at Harford Memorial Baptist
Church and on behalf of our chairman Deacon Thomas Williams we welcome all of you for this tribute that we are about to pay to Dr Charles gilchris Adams we extend our most sincere and heartfelt condolences to the entire Adams Family I want to share a perspective as seen by the diaconate
Ministry and how we most honorably recognized Dr Charles Adams for his Spirit-filled pastoral leadership here at Harford Dr Adams’s life was extraordinarily blessed and fruitful yet he was still driven by the desire to be an obedient servant leader he demanded greater faithfulness greater submission and greater sacrifice of himself and of whom
Those he served and with whom those he served with he recognize the importance placed on the role of leadership and exemplified a consumate pastor by being a Godly example his character traits clearly depicted the foundational virtues necessary for the important and responsible calling of a pastoral Ministry Faith with Works hope with
Patience and love with labor as deacons we saw in Pastor Adams a good Christian leader of moral Consciousness in word in conduct in spirit in faith in Purity and in an Abiding Love for Christ he was accessible patient trustworthy courteous dependable and spiritually guided he was an impeccable dresser intelligently
Professorial and diligent in his duties in and out of season with the utmost respect we admire Dr Adams and wholeheartedly assisted in supported him as our pastor he led and we followed closely behind him like sheep we knew his voice and trusted his caring sacrificial shepherding we watched him engage tirelessly building genuine
Relationships as taught in the Bible Pastor Adams was a vessel of Honor filled with the fruit of the spirit Sanctified and useful to the master prepared for every good work he was an eloquent orator who preached powerfully and unashamedly exhorting and convincing people of the truth with sound doctrine that establish
Faith through the word of God he resolutely advocated civil rights and equality of justice for all people he visited the sick fed the hungry gave to the poor encouraged the incarcerated and comforted those who mourned yes sir he saw his empathetic and sympathetic concerns for others with wise counsel we
Heard his powerful intercessory prayers that were hopeful and helpful for the healing of mind body and spirit his unselfish benevolence and compassion for others was defined by his unwavering generosity of selfless giving Dr Adams was unquestionably an Innovative holy spirit-led Visionary despite formidable odds he brought forth expansive economic
Growth in our local community and spiritual growth in our church his Relentless pursuit of sewing seeds in order That Others May Harvest good fruit extended Beyond these walls with missionary service support development and others Dr Adams was an extraordinary person we loved him and cannot express with appreciation the wonderful ways he
Contributed to us as an ordinary citizen I certainly can’t say thank you in his exclusive signature expression of Multicultural language nevertheless I say thank you father thank you for a man who is very special an amazing pastor and special friend God bless You good evening everyone I am Deacon artilla Griggs and I proudly serve as the president of the pastor’s courtesy Ministry on behalf of our ministry I wish to offer our sympathy and our condolences to The Adams Family our ministry is unique in that all we are
And all we do is for our pastor our mission is to support the pastor spiritually emotionally and financially and we’ve been doing this with with our whole hearts for over 5050 years for most of our existence we serve Pastor Charles gilchris Adams and our service
To our pastor was not a chore it was a labor of love we loved him and he loved us back but you see Pastor Adams was not limited in spreading his love he not only loved the members of our ministry he also loved every member of this
Congregation some say he was a pastor ‘s pastor and that he was but he was also the people’s Pastor he was there for all of us he prayed for us when we were on our sick bed he was there at the hospital early in the mornings before our
Surgeries he visited our homes to comfort us when we were bereaved he even helped us write the obituaries for our deceased loved ones he was part of our family and we grieve as if we’ve lost a father or a brother but as we are admonished from 1 Thessalonians we don’t
Grieve like those who have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus we know that our pastor Emeritus the Reverend Dr Charles gilchris Adams is now with our Lord he was a man after God’s Own Heart
He followed God’s word he kept God’s word he preached God’s word therefore that Crown was that was set aside for him 86 years and 11 months ago has now been placed on his head and if we remember if we remember what he taught us if we remember how he led us if we
Remember who he was and what he meant to us we will see him again may God bless you and may God keep You hello again my name is Reverend Lui Stokes I’m an assistant to the pastor for pastoral care and it is an honor for me to give a tribute to our esteemed pastor and Meritus Dr Charles G Adams and to our um Senior Pastor Charles C Adams I want to tell you about
Pastor Adams as being a consistent compassionate caregiver for the church I give tribute to Dr Adams consistent compassion to the ministry of the church not only for the church as we know it but for the church far and wide indeed the church that our Lord Jesus Christ is coming back
For he had a distinctive gift to at least Envision a vast radical possibility of the Ever Changing landscape of the church and the church’s impact on the precious lives of men and women and boys and girls not only at Harford but far beyond our vicinity Dr Adams envisioned radical possibilities
That embodied the gifts and capacities of all of God’s children from all walks of life Pastor Adams loved what and who God loved I give tribute to to Dr Adams consistent Compassionate Care for the radical Pastoral Care Ministry that he launched and and consistently supported
And advance for the sick and shut in in the hospitals their homes and the facilities and for his unceasing care for the shut out the shut out living up the street the shed out down the street the shed out across the street the shed out on the streets the shed out out that
Are bereft of essential needs and services to live a life of dignity finally I give tribute to Dr Adam’s consistent Compassionate Care for the dying the berried and the hurt and the confused consistent Compassionate Care from Co Pastor Adam’s Compassionate Heart to ours we warmly say maty buku Pastor God calls us individually by name not by number to do a specific job and to fill a specific role in his kingdom nobody else will do Reverend Dr Charles Gilcrest Adams specific job was as Pastor preacher teacher aitor social justice Advocate and more importantly the best example of servant of God he
Loved God and his people and he lived it every day I am truste Tyra dear Williams and I am here on behalf of Harford women United I say thank you Pa thank you for your support of the women of Hartford in 1983 Pastor Adams changed the name from
Women’s Day committee to Hartford women United and he formed a Heritage of spiritually stirred Harford women dedicated to Christ and the work of the church charging and encouraging this ministry to exhibit a strong spiritual foundation with a powerful emphasis on literary intellectual cultural death service to the community and financial support of
The church the women of Hartford have been blessed to have a pastor with Godly Vision to be a charge agent for women’s Justice and women in the Ministry thank you PA for opening your pull pit to women thank you PA for changing women’s day into women’s month which now includes weekly Services led
By women to this day there is tradition is that no man sits in harford’s pool pit on women’s day and we are blessed to hear from some of the most spiritually powerful women preachers on this side of Heaven thank you PA for your vision for your leadership for your in commitment and
For just being who God created you to be John 14 and 21 says Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me keeping Christ’s commandment is and always has been the best test of our faith for Jesus PA passed that test he’s
Run his race he’s earned his crown and for that we say thank you to the family we will bless we play God’s blessings and comfort to you today and in the days to come thank You Good evening my name is Roger Meyers and I am here to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr Charles Gilchrist Adams on behalf of Hartford Village and Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Dr Adams regularly said that that was a mar marriage made in heaven when I think of of Dr Adams I
Think of his community development in neighborhood development Ministries which most of you are familiar with I got to know Dr Adams in 2010 on May 1st of 2010 President Barack Obama gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan in the big house Dr Adams was there
On his way out of the stadium he met up with a moous man Henry Johnson who was on the pvm board the two of them talked about this property on Meyers Road and seven years later Hartford Village became a reality it was it was the vision the Insight the foresight the
Passion that drove us forward to now be serving over a hundred people at Hartford Village the Scottish right Masons talked about the good that lives on the greater good that lives on and you see that in so many ways Hartford Village is just one of those ways thank you Dr Adams for
All your inspiration to so many God bless [Applause] you Greetings and condolences from the spears family Jana Wana and myself my name is Ron Spears and I serve as a trustee and I lead all the mission work Harford does in Africa including our rights of Passage program I stand on the shoulders of great men and women including Pastor
Adams the Reverend and yotti Dr Manuel Pearson and Dr K LOVE lace who believe that every black church should adopt a village in Africa well I’m here to tell you our relationship with pinam Village in The Gambia is over 30 years strong and [Applause] thriving back in the 90s we took a
Different group of boys to West Africa every year thanks to M funny money raised by Harford men United during men’s month the girls would go to Egypt until tourism got a little risky so they started coming to West Africa with the boys after 9/11 we haven’t taken any
Kids to Africa uh and so many people wanted to bring this program back well I’m proud to say last year last summer we took 13 boys to West Africa and we honored Dr Pearson with a libation at the Atlantic Ocean and we poured ashes for Jasper Lindsay into the
Atlantic Ocean and I’m going to tell you next year we’re taking girls to Egypt in honor of Dr K LOVE lace regarding the mission work in Africa I was humbled when trustee John James left this ministry to me let lead this ministry and he left it well
Funded we uh over the last 5 years we built a $6,000 clean water system for a village of 3600 people we provided 12 scholarships each year for Village members and a women’s Marketplace and we got the message from PA’s passing while I was in Africa two
Weeks ago so I got to pour a libation for PA in Africa so all I have to say is a and am man thank You good evening I’m Glenda vix given from the Hartford greet us Ministry the Harvard G Ministry was established in 1984 39 years ago we would like to give honor and a tribute to our late Pastor ameritus Reverend Dr Charles gilr Adams I’ll tribute a thousand words just to express a
Few if we had a thousand words to express Pastor Adams we would start by saying he was one of the world world’s greatest preachers of all times he was a man of God he was a family man he was powerful he was an entrepreneur he help grow this community
As well as the city of Detroit he was passionate he was kind he was a leader he was an educator he was faithful he encouraged and he inspired us to love God and to love one another he was a motivator he was a giver he gave to the
To needs of many he touched many far and near he helped men broken hearts he loved the children of Harford and the children of the world he was a singer and he was a great one he was a gentleman he was loved by me and he was
Loved by you let us keep keep his memories alive may God Rest his soul and may God continue to bless Heart Memorial Baptist Church from the heart for greet us Ministry thank [Applause] You praise God from whom all blessings flow I am Betty Rashard president of hartford’s lion Ministry and I’m just so honored to provide a tribute to our loving PA our beloved was a Priceless Jewel first just as a person he exuded love and kindness and everything then in
The pull pit with his most impactful prophetic words to remember and live by such as in particular God will do more than just answer the prayer you prayed he will answer a bigger prayer that you don’t even know how to pray yeah thank you Pastor for your affirmations God
Said what you have is more important than what you don’t have and we need to keep that in mind as a community activists in metro Detroit and on the world stage fighting social social just injustices providing Aid to the sick and downtrodden feeding the hungry and providing clean water in various parts
Of the world and so much more it is no wonder that on April 23rd 1997 our beloved PA helped to Charter the Detroit Westtown heartbreak Lions Club with the mission to continue providing support to our local and international communities in fighting blindness hunger and other problems that impact our health and
Well-being today Lions Club is more than 1.4 million members and we lions at Hartford strong and active stand on the shoulders of our great leader who had the vision to start this humanitarian Club thank you Pastor Adams all right we now know his wings were ready even though our hearts were not the darker the night the brighter the Stars praise God from whom all blessings flow Amen we’ll now have a musical selection nope I’m sorry go ahead took a while forgive me good evening my name is Shelley Mitchell and I’m here representing senior Ministry number one good evening I am Deacon Beverly TS and I along with Kathy Pew serve as advisors for our youth ushers
Ministry praise the Lord and I’m Deacon Deborah Hicks and I serve as the adult Usher Ministry President we make up the combined Usher Ministry Ministry which is under the presidency of Deborah bolner truste Deborah bner and uh Lieutenant Jackie Henderson as the vice president it has been an honor and
Privilege to serve as ushers in this church under the leadership of Dr Charles gilg Adams for all of the 50 plus years that he was the pastor we love this man who was who had prolific teachings preaching activism knowledge and a special love for all of us many of us affectionately called him
PA it’s been an amazing journey that we will never forget and today we’ve had the honor of serving as honor guards to this man of God what a blessing what a blessing today is not only a day for the ushers to honor PA it is for us to encourage
The entire Adam’s family as well as our heart for family we pray you feel the love of our Usher Ministry through our service to you but more importantly we pray you hear the quiet still voice of the Lord surrounding you providing you with whatever you need at this
Time only God knows what you need not only for this day but for the days to come and know this the ushers of Hartford stand strong to support you we will be at our post as doorkeepers ERS and they’re individually for whatever you need we love you and we pray God’s
Continued blessings on all of [Applause] You if you don’t recognize me because I’m a little whiter than I used to be Reverend Jeremiah wght reminded me that in San Francisco when he called me fat at Third Baptist Church there I’m Reverend Dr D Mark Wilson youth Minister here between the years of 1985 and
1992 I wonder can you remember it was like to be a teenager like 18 years old where you have so many struggles trying to figure out should you go this way or that way and how you can combine all the stuff in the world who am I I came to
Harford at 18 years old in the midst of a dilemma where there was one group of church members telling me don’t go to college don’t go to Seminary because uh the learning will take away your burning and then when went to college at Howard they were saying why are you
Going down to that church then like they’re going to take away your critical thinking and then I met my pastor Dr Charles gilr Adams at 18 years old you know we all should have somebody that we want to emulate and be like because when I came here at 18 in 1978
And 79 for Easter Service and he brought together politics and economics and sociology and psychology and Theology and christology and negoy I mean he brought it all together didn’t he he taught us how to keep on preaching the gospel no matter what happened huh some of you might not remember this but some
Of us do remember when we first laid this this beautiful uh tile right here and he was preaching a sermon the red carpet was gone huh and he was going running across and he slid over here into Jerome Joe’s uh uh drum set got a cut on his head everybody was worried
And nervous but he said that’s all right that’s all right don’t worry about me cuz if Jesus could go all the way to Calvary up go goth plan if Jesus could bear an Old Rugged Cross shed his blood for my sins I Can Shed a little blood for the
Gospel we were thankful for first lady Agnes Allen because she looked at him as if he lost his mind by then and she told one of the deacons sit him down sit him down as a pastor in MC Baptist Church These are the pro Proverbs that he taught me about black church leadership
Things that we will never learn in seminary but we learn through our culture as black preachers and black churches he told me to love love the people and they will love you he said let them win sometimes you don’t have to win all the time and if
You let them win the ones who don’t like you will like you for other things and the one who do like you will hate you for don’t not like you for other things stop looking at those people you say are frowning their faces they may have missed their medication that
Morning or they may have indigested in their stomach count your votes before you go into a controversial meeting because Jesus before he did anything was brought together his disciples to have his back be relational and and if you come out have your struggles one of the most
Important things you taught us was in our sufferings not to get around the sufferings with a whole bunch of Praise but you’ve got to go through your suffering in order to see God in your suffering and I share that with the family and since the musician is given giving me a
Key you can go through your sufferings and sing coming out like him I trust in God I know he cares for me that’s another way on mountain peaks or on the stormy SE Oh I promise not to be before you long I actually mean it this time hello my name is Eugene Kelly II I am the current president of heart for men United I have served in this capacity for over a decade this organization was founded by our Pastor Charles Gilchrist Adams the
Mission of Harford Men’s Ministry is to be service to the men of the church and the community to address the mental physical and spiritual needs needed to nurture and fulfill God’s purpose for our lives our main goal in the beginning was to serve as a fundraising arm of the
Church to Garner capital for future endowment we were tasked with raising an upwards of $100,000 every year throughout the years and with Pastor Adams leadership we have grown into a viable resource to the men in the church as well as the overall community today
We honor a man who was the heart and the soul of this church and to this ministry he constantly gued us to do better be better and to strive for better he taught us to be great fathers uncles husbands brothers and friends because of Pastor Adam’s leadership and guidance hard for men
United has grown into an organization that provides mentorship to school children we work in the food pantry we serve as deacons trustees ushers choir members and parishioners we have mental and physical health and wellness seminars we do daddy daughter dances we build beds for homeless children we
Throw concerts in the park and we minister to each other on a weekly basis through our Tuesday night men’s bible study activity Pastor Adams is a man who can never be replaced but through this ministry has forged a lasting Legacy that will flourish for many generations to come
On behalf of har for men United men’s bible study and all of the men of this church I wish you God’s grace blessings and mercy march on my humble servant march on rest well my king we love you we cherish you and we adore you may God
Continue to bless this family and the church family forever amen Hi Tara John the boys so good to see you PA as we affectionately called him in the early 1883s I Ronald E Spears and Milton Watson established a church bookstore in the agapy house Hartford Memorial Baptist Church 30 de years later has made some Headway at the with the
Bookstore we are proud to say that our members and Friends May select any sermon concert feel like revivalist soloist because we now have just about everything set so that you can sit get at any part of Pastor Adams sermons anytime and just listen to them from now on
The one thing that I was so proud of Pastor Adams being able to do is he would send one of the deacons to the books to the bookstore and say Pastor Adams wants to see you and I’d get back there and he’d say if you look between the first Sunday in
May and the third Sunday in May you’ll find a certain sermon and when he did that sure enough that’s exactly where it would be and um he would say I got it So PA was just that type of person he he could just do that and it was such a thrill to be able to do it for him and I loved him so much so we want you to take advantage of the bookstore and to always look for what you want
And take it with you we love you all and we want to continue to serve you as long as we can thank you so much thank you all right at this time we’d like to be blessed by another musical selection coming from the Brazil Denard Coral to The Adams Family
Uh our sincerest condolences to you and and uh please know that you are in our thoughts and in our prayers always and that we the Brazil in our Corral consider it to be an honor to serve I happen to know that this next piece in flatus from uh rosini staat mat was one
Of Pastor Adam’s favorites and I have been here many times the second Sunday in December to sing it for his birthday so uh Inflatus [Applause] [Applause] Thou come when thou come into thy kingom please remember now thy Ser please remember now my Ser [Applause] Else us else can be St and bring us to th King bring us to th kingom to worship with the worship with the faithful toship with the [Applause] UN with me [Applause] th when th come into thy kingom please remember now thy servant please remember now th s [Applause] The US can Us bring us to thy King bring us to th to worship With that you worship with the fa For with [Applause] [Applause] me [Applause] [Applause] amen amen at this time don’t look at this video tribute in his own Words Charles Gilchrist Adams born December 13th 1936 I heard the call before I heard the call I I remember waking up on my fourth birthday and my mother said wake up Sunny that was my nickname wake up because this is your birthday I said my
Birthday I said how old am I and my mother said you’re four I said is that all I said I’m a preacher how can I preach it four years old that was so now I’m wondering how can I preach at 78 years old 79 I grew up in
Detroit in the Hartford Memorial Church I was baptized there in September 1944 my sister and me and we were both baptized on the same day same night same pool and it was very cold and I shivered throughout the whole thing I thought I wasn’t going to
Survive but my grand you’re going to be all right it’s going to be all right it’s going to be over you’re going to be all right so they got me in and they got me out and I have been the same since uh Dr Gordon Blaine Hancock professor of sociology and economics at
Virginia Union University for about 30 or 35 years and he was also Pastor he was a theologian he was pastor of Mo Street Baptist Church Richmond Virginia having taken a master’s degree in anthropology at Harvard and he told me you got to go to Harvard you’ve got to
Go to Harvard there’s no place else for you to go but to Harvard Oh My My My that’s so well you know Uncle Gord he would always be talking about Harvard and Harvard and Harvard and I said it’s not for me I just made up my mind it wasn’t for me so
It hadn’t really moved me that much and I was a pretty good student too but Harvard was a long dream in the back of my Consciousness and I never really thought that I was good enough for that I was U smart enough or Rich enough to go walking up into Harvard University
Expecting to get an education so I did all I could started out at Fisk University which I thoroughly enjoyed deeply loved but at the end of the second year of at Fisk I had a great time I had good grades but my grandmother was breaking
Down and I knew that I needed to be closer than Nashville I said I wonder can I go to the University of Michigan so I applied and I got accepted not only did I get accepted but I got full classification I got all of my first two
Years credit so I could start at Michigan as a junior and I graduated in 58 and with honors and um which was remarkable having gone as a transfer student supposedly having gone to an inferior school but Fisk was not inferior to Michigan I’m here to tell you That when I got to Harvard I was ready history I loved history the historical background of the Bible because the Bible at that time had some of the leading scholars in the history of the ancient near East most notable among whom is a person uh by the name of menen
Hall and Mel Hall was just so full of it he I mean he was full of hebraic thought and hebraic language and hebraic pottery and archaeology miraculously I got called to be the pastor of Concord Baptist Church at the age of 20 on my 26th birthday Lord have
Mercy it was a big big big gigantic huge task because the pastor didn’t have any power he didn’t have power and there’s certain things I wanted to correct foolishly I should have left him alone and just gotten my degree but no I had to try to be Pastor one lady said Reverend
Adams if if you play ball with us we’ll play ball with you I said I didn’t come to play ball I said I came to be the pastor here so uh look at him he ain’t big as a minute and he’s up there trying to be a pastor it’s only God’s grace and
God’s mercy that got me through It I made a place for women in Ministry and there was no one in the world that had been kinder to me than my mother and my grandmother and it didn’t make sense to me that women should be in Seminary and not have a chance to preach
It just didn’t make sense so I said here these are some of the best educated people we have in the race and you’re saying because they are a woman I said Deborah LED Israel she was a woman and Mary was the first Mary Magdalene was the first to see the Risen
Christ and she’s a woman so we wouldn’t have had an Easter gospel it hadn’t been from a woman who was called to tell story and that’s what preaching is and you know but uh there were some people oh you going to put that on us and
Indeed when I was elected I did I made sure that women were on all major committees and led several of them like the program committee and the budget committee and how would you like to be remembered 100 years from now well I’d like to be be be remembered as not a
Great man man but uh a humble servant of God who did some things well sometimes and I think that’s so there’s something here but I can’t tell you what it is and if it’s worth knowing there’ll be somewhere you can read about it and draw your own conclusions [Applause] [Applause] amen amen all right time limit is still in effect tributes good evening everyone my name is Julian goods and I serve here as the organist so I’ll keep my own time um I am uh here though representing the University of Michigan black Alumni Association uh and as we just saw Pastor
Adams in 1958 graduated from the University of Michigan after transferring to Fisk while he was at UFM Dr Adams stayed connected to music by singing in the University of Michigan men’s Glee Club under the direction of Dr Philip dwey he and his sister Edith would later make sure that the
University of Michigan men’s glee club would visit Hartford Church to performing concert and I was fortunate to be in that group when we came in 1986 Dr Adams would receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan and in 2006 Dr Adams would Reed the Leonard F sa esteemed alumni
Award which is given each year to someone who like Dr sa who was an educator in a leader who left a legacy of Human Service and achievement Dr Adams certainly has shown outstanding achievements in uh in service in that field of human endeavor the award was given by the University of Michigan
Black Alumni Association whose president is uh Eugene Kelly uh along with that Dr Adams was a a great advocate for the Arts and the connection between U ofm and Hartford in the Arts uh is impeccable I think to the of organist who have been here Dr Abington who was a
Michigan grad Dr Wayne bar who was here who was a Michigan grad Dr Clark who was a Michigan grad myself who is a two-time Michigan grad uh and this this organ that this church invested so much money in would not be possible without the collaboration between Dr Abington Dr
Adams and the University of Michigan Oregon Department Dr Kibby who work together to put in This Magnificent instrument which blesses us each week I couldn’t count the amount of University of Michigan grads who are in here but we are all grateful for Dr Charles G Adams who paved the way for so
Many of us to walk through those doors to have the power to stand on what we knew and what we believed in and constantly encouraged us to be better so be on behalf of the University of Michigan black Alumni Association and all the many uh University of Michigan
Grads who have served here on the music staff we say thank you Pastor Adams we love you family we love you Pastor [Applause] Christian because I have two minutes I cannot acknowledge everybody to my friend and my brother Pastor Charles Christian Adam Mrs Adams and all the entire Adams Family I am
Pastor Kenneth James Flowers greater new M Mariah Missionary Baptist Church on behalf of our church family we extend to you our love our prayers and our sympathy Dr Adams was indeed a friend a brother and someone I called my unofficial Pastor when my late Pastor Dr William rhaney of Dexter Baptist Church
Uh who served as Dr Adam’s catechis when he was ordained when he passed away I told Dr Adams You’ be one of my unofficial pastors Dr Haney said he had the most powerful vocabulary in the world as I became a preacher Dr Adams inspired me motivated me encouraged me
Gave me advice wisdom and knowledge on how to be the best that I could be when I celebrated 25 years of preaching the gospel 20 years ago caretta Scott King was there the Reverend Jesse Jackson was there Dr Benjamin hooks was there Governor gr but the keynote speaker was
The Reverend Dr Charles Gilchrist Adams I asked him to speak because I wanted the Harvard Hooper to let somebody know what it was all about I thank God for Dr Adams another thing I’ll say as I prepare to take my seat one of the most humbling moments was I had the chance to
Baptize one of my childhood friends Douglas Carter right here at Hartford because of Dr Adams Douglas’s father Deacon Carter passed away he accept to Christ at his funeral and said I want you Kenny to baptize me but I want to do it at Hartford what do we do I said I’ll
Call Dr Adams as Dr Adam said Kenneth we’ll get into the pool together and he allowed me to leave greater new Mount Mariah on a Sunday morning come here get dressed get into the pool he said Kenneth you take him down and I took him down in the pool here at Harford
Memorial Baptist Church that was Dr Adams good night my friend I saw him three weeks before he passed away and I say to you good night my brother we love you but God loves you best if when you give the best of your service telling
The world that the savior is come be not dismayed when men won’t believe he’ll understand and say Well done oh when I come to the end of my journey we are of life and the battle is won carrying the staff and the cross of redemption he’ll understand and say Well done well done
Dr Adams Well done thy good and faithful servant well [Applause] Done good evening everyone my name is Reggie White um I remember my second year of Divinity School at Howard I was really struggling not only to pay for the for the courses on the teacher salary but I I was struggling to find my authentic voice to that
Point when I preached I just did an a bad impersonation of the preachers that I had heard as a as a child so I was a mixture of Wilma Johnson and and and Pa and Jeremiah Wright and and the words were authentic but the delivery was authentically
Bad it was bad because it wasn’t me well I heard Pastor Adam was coming to Baltimore to preach a Revival and I had to sit down and and and and and listen to him so I called the secretary and I I set up well she he set up
Something for me um to meet for breakfast and um and we talked for like five or six hours matter well I’m sorry he talked for five or six hours and I listened and I got better um um we talked about everything from when he burned down the garage when he was a kid
And um when he when he preached at Hartford for the first time and the church was cold and the prayer that he prayed was if the church never warms up God Don’t Let the Fire stop burning in me that stayed with me um well after spending six hours with
Him I wanted to get him a gift because I know he had places to be and he had he had people that he he could have seen but he spent six hours with me so I got him this gift and um I tried to give it to
Him and he said Son you you don’t have to give me a gift you’re the gift I never felt so good in my life um because to that point it had been a long time since my soul felt its worth uh if you have a chance I want you to
Sew into a young person without any regard of whether they can pay you back After he told me that I I preached better I studied better I wrote better because I was being my authentic self I found my voice because I spoke with someone who found theirs there’s so much to learn and there’s so much to be thankful for [Applause] Good evening um I am a minister here at Hartford but tonight I represent um the dance ministry I took to the family we offer our deep and sincere condolences Dr Adams wasn’t just a supportive pastor of Ministries but he was an an enabler to anyone wishing to spread the
Gospel of Jesus Christ if you came to him with a viable plan he supported your vision he helped you make it plain and he he made it even better than you had envisioned it many churches uh at that time and 1993 did not allow dancing uh during the lurgical church
Service and if they did you certainly couldn’t dance in the pool pit area PA never gave us any restrictions at all Pastor Adams was was so supportive of the dance ministry in a meaningful and pro profound way Deacon Bridget McDonald went to him in 1993 and asked
To create and develop a dance ministry I joined as artistic director a few months later as I had just formally joined the church we sered for four we served four times that year and met with him to discuss the future well he asked us if
We could dance every week we said oh no Pastor Adam says anyway we settled on once a month in the year 2000 he supported us in the first of a series of six dancing for God conferences and it drew up to 200 people later that year he gave us a resource in
The person of Reverend Jeremiah Wright um who directed us to a dance ministry at Reverend flakes Church in New York and the rest is history the Harford dance ministry is celebrating 30 years of service and we owe it to Pastor Adams and to Pastor Christian Adams we are inspired and richly
Prepared for the future because of our pastoral direction to God be the glory Thank you Jesus thank you Jesus we are only able to see a beautiful future because we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants the giant we called and will forever call Pa our Bel beloved Pastor amerus is now a blessed memory we will continue to pray unceasingly for you Auntie first lady
Auntie Edith sister Tara brother pastor and the entire Adams family as well as our church family will hartford’s previous youth ministers please stand will all members of hartford’s Youth Ministries past and present please stand as as well while brother Walter tuus offers a brief reminiscence good evening heart for
Family it was several years ago I was 7 years old y’all y’all be seated and my mother and I were sitting in a Sunday service right here in the Overflow and my father was at this door us Ing and I asked my mother I said Mom can I get
Baptized well she said you can’t get baptized today but you can go give the past your hand and I said okay but she said go ask your dad first so like a naive kid I came down this aisle and passed the hand his hand extended
Out and like that same naive kid I went and asked my father missing his hand I asked my father and he said whatever you want to do son I came back this way and this same Pastor turned his body with his hand extended out ready to receive
Mine that’s the pastor we had yeah yeah yeah what a man what a man what a mighty good man amen amen Amen in closing there’s only one thing that we can say sister Allison and like my pastor Emeritus I too wish I had 10,000 tons just to say
Thank you if I were Chinese I’ll say odia if I were Danish I’ll say mangoat if our Italian I’ll say graia if I were Hebrew I’ll say toara if I were Greek I’ll say UK caristo If I Were Portuguese I’ll say obligato if I were Spanish I’ll
Say muchas gracias if I were German I’ll say donin if I were French I’ll say Mercy Boku if I were Russian I’ll say spba if I were Kenyan I’ll say ashanta if I Nigerian I’ll say a poo poo if iitu I’ll say indaba if I back in the 80s I
Say good looking out and if I were de I would say but sense I am who I am and we got just what we got and we feel just how we feel we just have to say thank you Pastor for all you have done we love you
And you will never be forgotten thank you thank you thank you amen am Amen Y’all y’all are wrong for putting me on after her Lord have mercy Lord Lord good evening my name is Derek Roman I’m proud to be the chairperson of the Harford Memorial Baptist Church trustee Ministry uh first and foremost to the family we offer our most sincere prayers and
Condolences on your loss on our loss this is our family we we love you you know that we are here for you uh at any time um I want to share a quick story with you on behalf of the trusty Ministry so several years ago God gave
Me a dream and in this dream Pastor Adams was in the parking lot and he was struggling to get into his car and in the dream I went over and I said Pastor let me help you and he says no brother Roman I need you to drive and in the
Dream I walked Pastor Adams to the passenger side I took his keys and off we drove Destination Unknown one month later I became chairman of the trustee Ministry destination was known wow so there’s a few takeaways I want to share with you around that the first is
The point of trust because I think we all have to take the keys from Dr Adams and continue the journey we all have to take the keys and drive but in doing so remember the word trust because trust is very important when I got in the car
With Pastor Adams he didn’t know if I could drive he trusted me I remember one conversation in the later days of his pastoral leadership here I was meeting with him and going over some spreadsheets and tables and all that and I can see that I was losing him in
Detail and he and I said pastor what do you think of all this he says brother Roman I trust you but you trust God I took the papers away and I said I know what I need to do Pastor so trust we need to be trustworthy in our driving
And we need to trust the driver but also Pastor Adams in that vehicle he was with me he didn’t give me the keys and walk walk off I had I had a partner and I think that’s important for us as we drive we must drive together in Fellowship in
Community and remember what Jesus said he will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever so we take the Holy Spirit we take the spirit of Pastor Adams with us forever and finally we didn’t know about the destination but what Pastor Adams taught me taught us
Is that wherever God goes leads me I will follow so Dr Adams thank you I have my keys do you have your keys do you have your keys we’re ready to drive from here on thank you Pastor rest in Peace Good evening my name is deaconness Beverly Matthews and I’m the chairperson of the deaconness ministry to Mrs Agnes Adams Dr Tyra Washington Reverend Charles chrisan Adams Mrs Edith Clifton and the entire family we offer our sincere condolences for your loss we love you PA for over 50 incredible wonderful years you were an
Inspiration and a blessing to many the members of the Deacon’s Ministry are deeply grateful to have known and serve you you are a gift from God and we will be eternally blessed to have known you rest in peace our excellent Shepherd we will be forever grateful to to have had
You in our lives your excellent teaching and preaching will always be remembered in our hearts and Luke 14:23 States then the master said to the slave go out into the roads and lanes and compel people to come in so that my house may be filled Philippians 4:13
States I can do all things through him who strengthens me thank than you Jesus for pastor Adams couple of things uh as I was coming here somebody called and said the US House of Representative congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee United States House of Representative 18 congressional district of Texas declared a
Proclamation stating on Friday December 15 2023 we come together on day to celebrate cherish and honor the life of the extraordinary Reverend Dr Charles G Adams now here be it resolved that on behalf of the constitute of the 8th congressional district of Texas I in great humility offer my condolences to
The family and friends of the Reverend Dr Charles G Adams and those he left in God’s hands with his legacy Reverend Dr Charles G Adams is most deserving of the respect admiration come com Commendation sorry of the United States Congress it is my privilege to declare this day December 15
2023 as Reverend Dr Charles G Adam day in the 18th uh Congressional Master says in Matthews 25:21 well done th good and faithful servant and she also also sent sympathy letters for the family members and also American flag that hung on the yeah American flag that hung uh
Before the United States Congress and you we have that here for the family thank you [Applause] We thank God for that tribute there are many more including one from the president they will be announced at a later time good evening everyone my name is Florine Smith and I’m the president of of the mother’s Ministry we loved Reverend Dr Charles GE Christ Adams and he loved
Us he created the mother’s board as it was called then soon after we moved here to Harford Memorial Baptist Church James cousin location some of the original members of the mother’s board were seasoned women who had helped his family after his mother passed away these women called him sunny
If PA needed anything these women provided it for him now I’ve been told when he came home from college on the Greyhound bus one of them was waiting on him to give him a ride home every Mother’s Day Reverend Adams would have a dinner for the mothers in
Fellowship Hall a photographer would be there to take our picture and in about two weeks the picture would come in the mail a nice 8 by10 last Sunday Reverend Dr Ramona Chapman told the Sunday school class that we lost a preacher and a teacher but we have to remember that
Reverend Charles Christian Adams has lost his father Proverbs 226 says train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he would not depart from it Reverend Charles Christian Adams is the beacon of light in his father’s eyes the love the light shines so bright Reverend Charles Christian
Adams was trained by his father Reverend Charles Gilchrist Adams in the way he should go let your light shine Reverend Adams and may the Holy Spirit go before you we’re going to move beyond the tears we’re going to we are going to move Beyond any questions because the Holy
Comforter is here today to comfort and strengthen in each and every heart and he will continue to be with us as we continue to live for God thank [Applause] You good evening family I almost said and friends but once you’ve been in the house of Charles Adams you are family he often reminded me Maxine Harford not everyone belongs to Harford but Harford does belong to everybody I am Deacon Maxine borders um Church clerk representing our church clerk Ministry our ministry is
Responsible for assisting the pastor by registering new members preparing candidates for baptism managing the office on Sundays and assisting and helping the congregation wherever they might be in need our first church clerk EA Rose originated our position in our ministry in 1919 we now have 32 assistant clerks all
Of who offer their sympathy and condolences to you The Adams Family as Dr uh Adams Church Clerk and Sunday Administrative Assistant he and I have had many conversations regarding his love and care for the members of our congregation and the content of his favorite scriptures 2 Corinthians 12
9-10 but he said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness so that Christ’s power May rest on me that is why for Christ’s sake I I Delight in weakness in insults in
Hardships in persecutions in difficulties for when I am weake then I am strong Philippians 41113 I am not saying this because I’m in need for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances I know what it is to be in need I know what it is to
Have plenty I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation whether wellfed or hungry whether living in plenty or want I can do all things through him who gives me strength those were two Dr Adam’s favorite scriptures if not his favorite so through many of
Life’s circumstances we shared several conversations about God’s grace and life’s contentment and content he was no matter where he was if he was in the president IAL suite at the progressive National Convention the White House a Hut in Africa teaching classes in Harvard or this very baptismal pool
Baptising baptizing souls for Christ but I believe he was most content teaching and preaching the word of God so to honor the memory of this Visionary an outstanding man of God please embrace the practice and principles addressed in these scriptures and in the initiatives he stood for social justice Local Economic Development educational
Advancement and evangelism now let the record of Harford Memorial Baptist Church show that the Reverend Dr Charles Gilchrist Adams has joined a host of congressional prayer warriors like Isaiah Johnson William AG Angelo Henderson Michael Curry Albert leley Matthew Smith Jack Wade Joyce m MX Silas Norman Norris Turner geryn green Selena
Grier Edward carmichel and so many others that PA blessed called trained and ordained all of whom are now having a great camp meeting at the feet of the master can you imagine them all together in heaven God bless and keep you Good evening I am Deacon John Bradley I I am president of the Hartford Business Ministry I’m here with two of my members Burgess and Tracy Foster and to Mrs Adams to Tara to Reverend Christian to the entire Adams Family to our Hartford church family I extend our
Condolences and prayers at at this time uh how appropriate the business ministry’s theme scripture is uh Proverbs 22:29 from the King James version seeth thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men to me that exemplifies striving for excellence and
Everything that you do and Reverend Dr Charles G Adams stood for excellence in everything that he did he stood for excellence in the preaching of the word he stood for excellence in his thought and deed he stood for excellence in the way he dressed in the way that he
Conducted himself and what an example that he set for us as the business Ministry he supported our business Ministry from large scale projects with the land that the the church owns to the uh Hartford Village that was mentioned earlier even to a home-based entrepreneur entrepreneur like myself he
Supported us in all that we did and we are eternally grateful for this humble man of vision he inspired Us in so many ways and we shall never forget him rest easy my friend may the Lord be with [Applause] you Good evening church to Pastor Adams first lady Nicole Adams um Agnes Adams ameritus my name is Carolyn Bunkley and I serve as the president of the Hartford Wednesday night quilting sisters and we offer our our sincere and deepest condolences to you and your family and we are praying for your
Strength and we thank you for sharing your husband and your father with us we sincerely thank you [Applause] amen Good afternoon my name is Alan Peak Jr I’m vice president of the male course here to represent the male courp standing in for our president Dwayne Hayes our prayers and condolences to First Lady ameritus Agnus Haley Adams our pastor Reverend Charles Christian Adams and first first lady Nicole Adams
Edith Ruth Adams Clifton Dr Tara Adams Washington and the entire Adams Family we the M course will truly miss our pastor Emeritus his preaching engagements have Martha’s Vineyards and his many sermons Matthews 22:14 many are called but few are chosen and we all know Pastor ameritus Adams
Was chosen by God there was one sermon that the whole world truly enjoyed because when he was finished no one said ouch and that sermon was thank you of course Pastor Emeritus would say I wish I had 10,000 times just to say thank you in so many different languages but no
I’m not going to try to attempt to do that but since I am who I am and I got what I got and I feel what I feel I want to say thank you thank you God for allowing the Reverend Dr Charles Gil Chris Alam to be in this world thank you
God for allowing the Reverend Dr Charles Gil Chris Adams to be in United States of America thank you God for allowing Reverend Dr Charles Gil Chris Adams to be in the state of Michigan thank you God for allowing the Reverend Dr Charles Gil Chris Adams to be in the city of
Detroit thank you God for allowing the rever Dr Charles Gil Chris Adams to be one of the original pioneers of black lives matter thank thank you God for allowing Reverend Dr Charles Gil Chris Adams to Pastor Harford Memorial Baptist Church for 50 years and 6 months thank
You God for allowing Reverend Dr Charles G Gil Chris Adams to be part of my life To God Be The Glory thank you God Hello Harford uh welcome to Hartford I like to welcome everyone that’s not from this church too here tonight uh I guess I’m last but I like to say what Reverend Adam said to me uh he actually met me in prison uh when I did 13 years for
Shoplifting a pair of gym shoes and a set of bed sheets that’s because I was being abused by white men in prison and Reverend Adams I would write letters to him and Dorothy Ward if she was is here tonight I would tell her thank you for
Making sure he got all of my letters Reverend Adam said a prayer with me uh 13 days out of prison I was going for a job the next day and he said this long long prayer and he told me get there on time and God is going to meet you
There and I got there on time and I was hired on the spot I used to bring my backpack to church with me every Sunday because one of my jobs was to go out there and help other people that’s getting out of prison get jobs and I used to bring my
Backpack with me every Sunday to church because God told me to bring it and when I brought my backpack to church I would sit it right in front of Reverend Adams’s door every Sunday and Jackie Lieutenant Jackie Henderson came to me one Sunday and she said
John why do you keep sitting that bag in front of Reverend Adam’s door like that I said because because God told me to sit it there it’s going to grow God told me he’s going to make it grow if R if R Adam’s robe can just hit that bag
Every time it hits that bag it’s going to grow and my bag it grew from a duffel bag to a suitcase with about 30,000 business cards in it my first year out of prison we put 400 returned citizens to work and Reverend Adams made sure that this congregation got involved
Because he put my name in in my inmate number and my address in your church bulletin and then he asked you to write me letters before I came home from prison and then the real saints I ain’t talking about those people that come here to do business I’m talking about
Those real people that got that vertical connection they’re sitting at that table and they’re looking through that booster and they’re saying I’m going to send the word of God to this prisoner so he was a believer in prison re-entry programs and and I have made it my job and my duty to
Be an exemplary example of what you all have invested in people that are in jail in prisons all over this world I want to be that good example to let you know that your love is not in vain that your reach out to us has made a difference in
My life and every man and every woman that I’ve been able to touch through this ministry you are he’s great because you’re great great he’s great because you’re great he’s great because he great he had a great ministry he had a great church and I love you Harford I love you [Applause] Harford amen again the Brazil dard Cor Now I’m going to tell you about the coming of the Savior I’m going to tell you about the coming of the [Applause] Savior day Coming my Lord speaks to his father father I’m tired of Be ofing all oh preer F your [Applause] Bible no the been Converted for the L [Applause] [Applause] morning Morning morning there he in that great [Applause] morning amen praise God at this time The Adams Family Family tributes yes sir All right good evening everyone my name’s David Adam Washington um I’m Pastor Adam’s grandson I want to say first from the bottom of my heart and speaking for the family as well it’s very warming to hear all the tributes and all the kind memories for my grandfather uh he was a
Man truly of uncommon energy boundless generation generosity and a singular Gift of Gab that I think he really used to find ways to produce things for his community and I think even more importantly he used that oratory Excellence to find ways to inspire others to create things for themselves
And give to their own Community as well I could tell a bunch of stories about that but I’m not trying to get Reverend Curtis to drag me off the stage here so I’ll keep it short I remember when I came here about 7 years ago for his 80th birthday party after the
Service in the church everybody went down to the basement to have a big have a big supper and I remember seeing him look out onto the congr who came there to wish him well on his 80th birthday a lot of people that he had married a lot
Of people that children he had baptized uh people he even consoled in some of their darkest times I remember him seeing just being very proud of all the people that there who had been able to accomplish so much been able to pursue an education become doctors or ministers
Or engineers and contribute more to their community and seeing everybody there happy and prosperous was one of the greatest things that he was ever grateful for and it was one of the things that made him happiest in this world whenever I would come out to church at Hartford I remember even since
I was a little kid one of the songs I always wanted to hear the choir sing was this little light of mine and that to me was probably inspired because of my grandfather because something he always inspired myself and everybody else I know how to do was let that little light of yours
Shine and I’m proud I’m proud to call him my grandfather his Spirit lives on through the prosperity of his community that he loved and cared for yes sir the exercise of the educations he helped to fund and Inspire and every and the legacy of everything he’s done through his works in the community
So thank you all for everything today thank you [Applause] [Applause] All good evening Hartford family uh my name is Tara Adams Washington and I’m the daughter of this great man I wanted to thank everyone here for your heartfelt condolences and and for all the prayers that have been sent our way over the past several weeks really
Since uh he his health has taken a dramatic turn for the worst When I Was preparing to come here I really wasn’t planning to say anything and I was straightening up my office just uh getting ready for the person who would be filling in for me and I ran
Across these words that I felt described my father’s Journey so well so this is a a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson who was a philosopher and an abolitionist and a Harvard Alum and the words are as follows to laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
Children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the Betrayal of false friends to appreciate Beauty to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether it be a healthy child a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has
Breathed easier because you have lived here this is to have succeeded I believe my father succeeded and I want to say rest in peace and in power my dear [Applause] [Applause] Daddy good evening everybody I’m Edith Clifton I’m the uh sister of our pastor ameritus I’ve been with him through his entire journey and I only have two things to tell you everything you have heard tonight every word that has been spoken and sung magnificently is absolutely true I’m a witness [Applause]
I don’t know how you follow that Jonathan Wilkins um one of Dr Adams one of two of Dr Adams uh teaching assistance at Harvard Divinity School um it’s been said that when the student is ready the teacher appears I remember sitting on the edge of my seat in his first course preaching
For social change he was teaching from Arthur Mitchell’s book Henry Mitchell’s book The Art of oh black preaching the powerful art and recovery of an art form and I remember he called for a teaching assistant at the end of class and before I knew it my hand was already raised and I couldn’t
Believe I was the only one with my hand raised because at that time what I could not have known is that not only would I be his teaching assistant but he would adopt me as a son I was his chauffeur his uh grocery getter typed all of his emails some of you got
Emails from me but what made him so special to the Harvard Divinity Community him and his beautiful bride was that he turned conversations into revivals he would not allow you to settle for potential when promise was so near he would not allow you to settle for half-baked ideas when Excellence was
Required he required us to think more than average and he refused to allow us to settle for anything less and so I just want to thank God for your pastor our sponsor he poured into so many different unique people and our entire community is grateful we are grateful I
Remember being here as an intern and him saying we going to get you a car we going to put you up in a house and I remember I had no money and so all of it sounded and looked good and at the end of the summer he handed me a check for
$115,000 and for for somebody with no money it’s life changing and so for many of us he he put so much more in us that we have to pay it forward and until my dying day until my dying day I’m going to make sure that every young man I come in
Contact with is blessed by the one who blessed me and so tonight I’ll just raise my hand and say thank you to pop Adams for all that he done for all of us God bless You amen God bless you believe it or not we are almost done we are blessed to have Dr W James Abington here this day and he will bless us after we receive the benediction coming from our youth pastor the Reverend Jonathan bets Fields bless you all that’s Me let us pray King Jesus May our words of our mouths the meditations of our hearts and the worship that is our lives be pleasing may we be just Heavenly enough to be substantially good here on Earth and may we always remember to pray like everything depends on God and and to
Work like everything depends on us may we never forget what PA taught and preached and especially how he lived may the Lord bless you and keep you may the Lord show his kindness may he have mercy on you may the Lord watch over you and give you peace may his
Presence go before you and behind you may you remember that God’s love HS you in and Emmanuel God is with us to he who sits on the throne and to Jesus Christ Our friend and our King the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever
And ever let all who believe say amen amen and amen thank you [Applause] H For H [Applause] may you all be [Applause] blessed
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