President Obama gives impassioned speech while making rousing political statement in his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney
Giving all praise and honor to God.
The Bible calls us to hope. To persevere and have faith in things not seen.
"They were still living by faith when they died," Scripture tells us.
"They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth."
We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith. A man who believed in things not seen. A man who believed there were better days ahead, off in the distance. A man of service who persevered, knowing full well he would not receive all those things he was promised, because he believed his efforts would deliver a better life for those who followed.
To Jennifer, his beloved wife; to Eliana and Malana, his beautiful, wonderful daughters; to the Mother Emanuel family and the people of Charleston, the people of South Carolina.
I cannot claim to have the good fortune to know Reverend Pinckney well. But I did have the pleasure of knowing him and meeting him here in South Carolina, back when we were both a li
EXCLUSIVE: How the wife of Reverend Pinckney hid under the desk in a nearby church office with her six-year-old daughter as her beloved husband was gunned down by Dylann Roof
The full graphic story of the Charleston church massacre was revealed today as it emerged that two children survived the carnage unleashed by gunman Dylann Roof.
Daily Mail Online can disclose that the six-year-old daughter of murdered preacher Rev Clementa Pinckney and his wife Jennifer eluded the bullets by hiding under a desk in an office and calling
In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online, Sylvie Johnson, a cousin of Rev Pinckney, revealed that Mrs Pinckney, who had left the Bible class minutes before, heard the rapid gunfire and people screaming for their lives as another woman Felicia Sanders and her five-year-old granddaughter played dead as the shooter went berserk.
Mrs Sanders saw her son Tywanza, 26, gunned down as he pleaded with the gunman to end the carnage and she lay motionless in a pool of her son’s blood as he fell next to her.
Sadness: Sylvie Johnson told Daily Mail Online that the six-year-old daughter of murdered preacher Rev Clementa Pinckney and his wife Jennifer elu
Clementa C. Pinckney ()
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Clementa Carlos &#;Clem&#; Pinckney, was an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) pastor, South Carolina State Senator, and rising star in the national Democratic Party. On June 17, , he and eight local black leaders were assassinated in Charleston, South Carolina, during Bible study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that Pinckney pastored.
Raised in the liberation theology tradition, Pinckney seamlessly intersected his faith with civil rights activism and public policy. Born on July 30, , in Beaufort, South Carolina to John and Theopia (Stevenson) Pinckney, young Pinckney in followed in the path of his great-grandfather, Rev. Lorenzo Stevenson, and uncle, Rev. Levern Stevenson, and began apprentice preaching in St. John AME Church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Four years later during his freshman year at the AME-run Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, Pinckney became a preacher and freshman class president. He also gained valuable exposure to the South Carolina legislature as a page at the Statehouse. By Pinckney’s junior year, these experiences set the foundation for his becomin
Clementa Pinckney Obituary
Published by Legacy Remembers on Jun. 18,
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clementa Pinckney, among those killed in the Charleston church where he was the beloved pastor, was also a state senator lauded Thursday as "the best of the 46 of us in this chamber" as colleagues gathered in tribute near his black-draped desk in the state Capitol.
A year state legislator, Pinckney was among nine victims Wednesday of a shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, one of the country's oldest black churches. He was He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and two children, Eliana and Malana.
"What stood out more than his big frame and booming voice was his astronomical heart he had for his fellow man," said Senate Minority Leader Nikki Setzler.
Just one year after graduating from Allen University in , Pinckney became, at 23, the youngest African-American elected to the South Carolina Legislature. In , he was elected to the state Senate.
He earned his masters of public administration from the University of South Carolina in and studied at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary.
A native of Beaufort, Pinckney began preaching at th
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