[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 116 (Tuesday, September 26, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H8065-H8066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




WELCOMING THE REVEREND JERRY PRUITT, NEW ARK CHRISTIAN CENTER, BELOIT, 
                               WISCONSIN

  (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the Pastor, 
Jerry Pruitt, from the newly renamed Faith Builders International in 
Beloit, Wisconsin, formerly known as New Ark Christian.
  Mr. Speaker, I have come to know Pastor Jerry Pruitt as a personal 
friend and a counselor, a man who has give guidance not only to myself, 
but to countless numbers of people throughout Northern Illinois and 
Southern Wisconsin.
  Jerry Pruitt is a man who has built a church from the ground up, 
literally, to one where it is a beacon of hope, of religious pride, of 
Christian values, that is spreading throughout Southern Wisconsin, and 
now going international.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to be here today to have Pastor Jerry 
Pruitt open today's proceedings with a prayer. We are very proud of him 
at home in Wisconsin. Now we are very proud of him here in the Nation.

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  Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, for allowing the opportunity to 
have such a wonderful man, who has brought so much to so many people's 
lives, be with us today.

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