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Sunday’s “Souls to the Polls” Early Voting Effort
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Bishop Duane Tisdale
brought almost 200 congregants from Friendship Baptist
Church to the Early Voting Center after service this past
Sunday – the first Sunday for early voting – and got the
local “Souls to the Polls” drive off to a big start.
The congregation was lined
up by 12:30 p.m. for the 1 p.m. early voting opening and up
until 5 p.m., when the Center closed, churches such as St.
Paul Missionary Baptist, Mt. Nebo Baptist, City of Zion,
Ebenezer Baptist, Serenity Baptist, Second Baptist and New
Light Church of God in Christ, to name a few, kept the flow
of voters coming.
Refreshments – hot dogs,
coffee and donuts – were provided just across the street by
the Friendship’s Civic Committee for the voters and their
families and, as usual, volunteers for various issues and
candidates held forth on the other side of the street from
the Center passing out literature, buttons and candy.
The Civic Committee
members are: Deborah Barnett, Rick Brown, Tina Butts, Olivia
Holden, Andrew Kensey, Sharon Roach, LeVera Scott, Pat
Snelling and Ron Wingate. James Easter provided the music.
Another “Souls to the
Polls” event will take place this upcoming Sunday.
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