[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 63 (Monday, May 18, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E876]
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                    TRIBUTE TO BISHOP EDDIE L. LONG

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                        HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 18, 1998

  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, today, I had the pleasure of hosting, my 
pastor, Bishop Eddie L. Long, who was the House Guest Chaplain for the 
Day. Bishop Long is the pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church 
in Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. Through Bishop Long's 
leadership, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has grown from 300 
members in 1984 to nearly 22,000 members.
  New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has worked to focus the community 
efforts on saving at-risk youth. Through a program called Project 
Impact, members of the new Birth Missionary Baptist Church work within 
the state judicial system to rehabilitate first-time juvenile 
nonviolent offenders. Without this program, many of these first-time 
offenders would be incarcerated in our already overcrowded juvenile 
system with a greater likelihood that they would commit more serious 
offenses.
  Bishop Eddie Long is not only the leader of New Birth Missionary 
Baptist Church but also a leader within the community and the world. He 
is an active member of the Morehouse School of Religion Board of 
Directors and also serves as a moderator of the American Baptist 
Churches of the South.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask that my colleagues on both sides of 
the aisle join me in welcoming Bishop Eddie L. Long to the United 
States House of Representatives.

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