This year besides the Blake Vincent Payne Star Fund, we have done outreach to Rolling Fort, Miss., which was devastated by a tornado earlier this year,” said Brown. “This organization does quite a bit of outreach. The week’s events feature a night of music with Patrick Lundy and the ministry of music with WHUR’s Jacquie Gales Webb serving as the Mistress of Ceremonies in addition to an outreach presentation for the organization’s Blake Vincent Star Fund, which is dedicated to pediatric cancer research. I went down to my church, got on the bus, and the rest is history,” said Pates. I started in 2000 and I began to become a part of the Southern region. Pates attended this convention 22 years ago and has been an active member ever since. Looking at my list from the Southern region, we have more people coming this year than we did last year, so that’s a plus,” said Pates. “We’re looking forward to having a much bigger crowd this year. Over the course of the last century, conferences have been hosted in major locations across the country including Los Angeles, New Jersey, Delaware and New York. We have a drill team competition on Wednesday evening and I’m excited about that,” said Anthony Powell, western regional director. “I am ultra excited about seeing all of the ushers, all my friends, and seeing the latest techniques that are going on. Over 800 seniors, young adults and junior ushers are expected to be in attendance. The group is interdenominational and welcomes ushers from all backgrounds with training principles that encourage servants to help church guests get in the right frame of mind to prepare for worship. “We’re just coming out of the pandemic so we’re looking forward to the school of ushering classes and we will have a good fellowship-events, good preaching and singing, just good ol’ time religion and coming together again,” said Linda Pates, director of the southern region and first national vice president for the organization.
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