MLK Prayer Breakfast in Gainesville to honor pastor, high school senior for leadership
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast will again honor a local pastor and high school senior espouse the principles King lived by and who live their lives by leading by example.
This will be the 15th year of the breakfast that will be held at 8 a.m. Friday at the Best Western Gateway Grand Hotel at 4200 NW 97th Blvd.
This year’s Joseph “Joel” Buchanan Scholarship Award recipient will be So’Unique High, a senior at P.K. Yonge Developmental and Research School who has a 3.76 GPA and plans on attending Florida A&M University in Tallahassee where she will major in healthcare administration and pursue a degree in musical theater.
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“I am so very grateful for this scholarship, and it will not be wasted at all,” said High, 18. “I thank God for what he has done for me and for what he is going to do for me in the future.”
The breakfast is sponsored by the MLK Jr. Commission of Florida Inc., and last year it raised a record $20,000 for Dominique Carter, who won the scholarship then as a senior at Eastside High School. She now attends Florida Memorial University in Miami.
No more tickets are available for the breakfast, said Rodney Long, president and founder of the King Commission.
This year’s Drum Major for Justice Faith Award recipient will be Pastor LaShon Young of Fresh Start Ministries.
The keynote speaker will be Pastor Gerard Duncan, pastor of Prayers by Faith Ministries and last year’s Drum Major for Justice Faith Award recipient.
For more information about the breakfast, visit www.martinlutherkingcommission.org.
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Student, pastor to be honored at MLK Prayer Breakfast in Gainesville
