Clifton Whitaker, Jr., attended the Richmond Public Schools and graduated from Armstrong High School he studied at Virginia Union University before becoming a member of the Richmond Police Department, where he served for 17 years and became the first African American officer promoted to the Detective Division after serving on the force for eight months and one of the first African Americans to receive the Excellence Police Duty Medal he also was awarded the Medal of Valor and the Dale Carnegie Award for Highest Achievement during his tenure as a law-enforcement officer and Clifton Whitaker, Jr., a Richmond native and the longtime and esteemed senior pastor of Grayland Baptist Church, was reared in a spirit-filled home by loving parents and Clifton Whitaker, Jr.Īgreed to by the House of Delegates, FebruAgreed to by the Senate, February 26, 2015 Saturday Address: Mount Olivet Church, 1223 N. If you are interested in sponsoring, please email Address: Richmond's First Baptist Church, 2709 Monument Ave.
Sponsors will be recognized in the conference program and on screen at the event. If you are interested in applying, please email are also available. This includes pastors, priests, church staff, elders, and deacons, as well as the directors of Christian nonprofits. The cost of the conference is $50 per person, including dinner on Friday and coffee, lunch and snacks on Saturday.
Please note that this conference is for clergy only. Ultimately, after many years of collaboration, we hope that this unified approach will result in Richmond moving from being known as the Capitol of the Confederacy to being the Capitol of Reconciliation. Our hope is that this annual gathering will result in deepening and ongoing relationships amongst diverse clergy, a commitment to shared learning and/or training on an ongoing basis, and a commitment to identify concrete ways to work together to advance racial healing and reconciliation. to identify areas where we can work together (collaborate) to identify ways to help one another in this work (equip)Ĥ. to discover what each group is doing to advance racial healing and reconciliation (map)ģ. build authentic relationship with those outside their current sphere (connect)Ģ. The goals of this inaugural conference are for clergy to:ġ. However, we have realized that for healing to advance in a significant way in Metro Richmond, clergy must know one another, know what each of us is doing, and begin to find ways to work together.
There are many networks or groupings of churches working together in their respective spheres on racial healing, justice and reconciliation. 15th at Mount Olivet Church on 25th St.įor the first time ever, all the major clergy groups in the region are coming together to host this much-needed event, including the Baptist Ministers Conference, Clergy Against Racism, For Richmond, Pastors for Racial Reconciliation, Richmond Hill and more. The inaugural Clergy for Racial Reconciliation Conference will take place on the evening of Friday, Oct. Register today! The inaugural Clergy for Racial Reconciliation Conference in Richmond, VA promises to be a historic gathering.
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