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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Reverend Dr. Leroy |
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| R. Henry II on his retirement as pastor of the Mary Magdalene |
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| Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. L R. Henry has devoted fifty years toward the |
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| spiritual growth and nurturing of God's Kingdom; in 1956 he was |
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| called into the preaching ministry and was ordained on July 9, |
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| 1961, at St. Matthew Baptist Church by the late Pastor Reverend |
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| J. P. Gordon; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1962 Dr. Henry organized and began his |
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| Pastorate at the Mary Magdalene Missionary Baptist Church in |
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| Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Henry's educational background began at The |
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| Chicago Baptist Institute, where he earned an Associate degree |
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| in Religion in 1979; he continued to study at the Chicago |
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| Baptist Institute, earning a Bachelor of Theology degree in |
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| 1980; in 1989 be received three prestigious Seven-Year Training |
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| diplomas from the Department of Christian Education of the |
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| Baptist Sunday School and Training Union Congress of the |
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| National Baptist Publishing Board; and he earned a Doctorate of |
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| Divinity degree from the Gospel Outreach Theological Institute |
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| of Houston, Texas, in 1996; and
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| WHEREAS, He has been a distinguished professor at the |
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| Chicago Baptist Institute for more than twenty years; first |
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| Vice-President of the Illinois Missionary Baptist Convention; |
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| Treasurer of the Illinois Missionary Baptist State Convention |
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| for seven years; First Vice-Moderator of the Northwood River |
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| Baptist District Association; a member of the Lifelink Housing |
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| Corporation's Board of
Directors for more than eight years; and |
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| an outstanding President of the Baptist Ministerial Alliance of |
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| Chicago and Vicinity for six years; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Henry is especially proud of his lovely wife |
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| for fifty-four years, Dora, who has assisted him in nurturing |
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| their six children in God's way; all six of their children have |
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| earned college degrees; and they have nineteen grandchildren |
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| and five great-grand children; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Reverend Dr. Henry on his retirement and wish him |
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| the best in all his future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Reverend Dr. Henry as a symbol of our respect.
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