RESOLUTION NO. 000533

Honoring the Reverend Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfields 50 years of preaching.

WHEREAS, Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church Family is blessed to celebrate the 50th preaching anniversary of their Pastor, the Reverend Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfield at a reception dinner on Saturday, April 15, 2000, 6:30 p.m. at their Fellowship Hall at the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church; and

WHEREAS, after three years in the United States Armed Services, Dr. Hartsfield entered Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education with minors in Religion and Psychology. He was listed in Whos Who in America Colleges and Universities in his Junior and Senior Years and in 1954, he entered Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta from which he graduated with degrees of Bachelor and Master of Divinity; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Hartsfield has held pastorates in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kansas and since 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri at the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Hartsfield is the second Vice-President of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., past President of the General Baptist State Convention of MO/KS/NE, Chairman of The Congress of National Black Churches and Chairman of the Economic Development Commission of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

That the Mayor and Council congratulate the Reverend Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfield for his 50 years of preaching and service to the community; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be spread upon the Minutes of the Council in testimony thereof and that a copy hereof be presented to the Reverend Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfield in token of the appreciation of the Mayor and Council and in celebration of 50 years of preaching and service to the community.

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