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Martin Luther King Day January 19th features Raquel St. Clair
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The Coalition Interfaith Outreach Committee will sponsor its? annual Martin
Luther King Day program and volunteer fair, "Making It More Than A Dream,"
at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 767 Prospect St., Maplewood at 3:00 PM. For
more information, call our events line at 973-761-6116, ext.6.
This year's speaker will be the Reverend Raquel A. St. Clair, Ph.D., the
first woman to serve as an Executive Minister to the 5600 members of the
historic St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, NJ. Dr. St.
Clair received her Ph.D. in New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological
Seminary where she was the first African American to receive the degree. In
2000, Rev. St. Clair had the distinction of being one of nine African
American Ph.D. students in the nation to receive a Dissertation Fellowship
from the Fund for Theological Education. Rev. St. Clair has served as a
Teaching Fellow in both introductory and advanced level graduate courses.
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