Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

I got to, I d- I got to ride a couple blocks on the, on the old b- bus with them, which was fun.

Um, and then Sunday they had their big sort of kickoff day where, so the original Freedom Riders, again, they left from the Greyhound bus terminal in DC, but they, before they left, they had a big, um, send-off for them at Metropolitan AME Church, uh, on M Street.

So I, they had a big service there that, wherein which they recognized the Freedom Riders, and then they had a lunch afterwards, and the Freedom Riders, um, spoke at that.

I couldn't s- I had to leave a little early to go get Charlotte to take her up to Swarthmore.

Before we get into that, I want to introduce our two guests today.

We are so fortunate that Reverend Bill Lamar IV is a pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

He does come from all over Florida, and he's worked as well in Maryland.

He was the director of leadership education at Duke University Divinity School and had all kinds of leadership roles there.