MLK Sr. Community Resources Complex to be dedicated Sunday
Ebenezer Baptist Church will dedicate the Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resources Complex on Sunday.
The church has “partnered with four nonprofits to provide a one-stop shop of comprehensive services for struggling families in the Old Fourth Ward and throughout the Atlanta metro area,” said the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer. The $8 million complex will be fully operational by January 2013.
A tribute will be held during Ebenezer’s 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services in the church’s Horizon Sanctuary, 400 Auburn Ave.
The official dedication ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. at 101 Jackson St. N.E.
Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young will deliver the sermon at the morning services. The 1 p.m. dedication ceremony will end with a ribbon cutting at the Community Resources Complex’s front door.
The building is designed as a memorial to the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., the father of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It will house some of his memorabilia, sermons and papers. Also on display in the music suite is the organ that his wife, Alberta Christine Williams King played during Ebenezer services.
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