TENNESSEE CLERGY FOR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE

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Petition Drive Press Conference In Support of Educational Choice SCLC Memphis Chapter is calling upon pastors statewide, along with citizens to join us in a statewide press conference to be held in Nashville, February 26th at the state Capitol, for the purpose of presenting the Petition Supporting Educational Choice to the Governor and the Legislature. SCLC Memphis Chapter initiated a Petition Drive In Support of Educational Choice in November 2014. The strategy has been to send workers out into various communities and shopping centers acquiring signatures for the petition. Pastors have been getting members of their congregation to sign the petition as well. SCLC Memphis will be calling upon pastors across the state of Tennessee to join in the petition drive which will end with a press conference on the 26th. Parents with financial means have options, those with limited financial means do not. An educational choice program like an Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) shifts power to low income parents. The OSP, for the first time, will give parents of limited means the power to do what is best for their children. •



The Opportunity Scholarship Program should be given to all lowincome and working class Tennessee families. Access to quality education should not be limited to children of wealthy families. Low income families should have more power, not less, and our children should have more options, not fewer.

If you agree, please add your name to the petition and take the added step of participating at the press conference February 26th at the State Capitol. Please join our coalition of ministers, representing approximately 50,000 congregants, which has been following the debate regarding education policy in the General Assembly with great interest. We strongly support the passage of Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act. We look forward to standing alongside you and those elected officials who will put our Tennessee children first and foremost. Thank you for your interest. Warm Regards, Dr. Dwight Montgomery Pastor, Annesdale Cherokee MBC President, Memphis Chapter, SCLC  

Rev. Dr. James Adams TN Regular Baptist Convention (Shelby County)

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Rev. Dr. J.C. Bacchus St. Mark Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Brain Bartlett Lake Grove Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Bassil Brooks Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church (Shelby County) Bishop E. Lynn Brown, Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association CME New Mt. Zion Church (Shelby County) Rev. Wendell Coward Greater Mt Zion Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Coleman Crawford Grace Baptist Church (Shelby County) Dr. Jacqueline Crockett Word of Deliverance Faith Ministries (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Leonard Dawson Cane Creek Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. James Delaney St. John Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Maurice Dickerson, Chairman of Education Committee Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. C.S. Greer, Vice-President Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association Hopewell Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Frank Harris Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. R. B. Holmes, Jr. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church (National) Rev. Dr. Roosevelt T. Joyner Koinonia Baptist Church (Shelby County) Elder JE Lewis, Pastor Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association (Shelby County) Rev. H. K. Matthews Civil Rights Pioneer (National) Rev. Dr. Marvin Mercer, President TN Baptist Missionary Edu. Convention (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Dwight Montgomery Annesdale Cherokee Missionary Baptist Church

Pres., Memphis Chapter SCLC (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. J. L. Payne Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Stacy Spencer New Direction Christian Church (Shelby County) Bishop Ed Stephens, Jr. Golden Gate Cathedral (Shelby County) Rev. Nelson B Stokes Breath of Life SDA Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. C.W. Tutton Ellis Grove Baptist Church (Shelby County) Dr. Eunice Warfield Superintendent (SDA) South Central Conference (Davidson County) Dr. Kenneth T. Whalum, Jr. The New Olivet Baptist Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Luther Williams, President Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association New Mt. Zion Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. John Wilkins Hunters Chapel Church (Shelby County) Rev. Dr. Walter Womack Faithful Baptist Church (Shelby County) TENNESSEE CLERGY FOR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE Supports The Opportunity Scholarship Program