[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 20, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H962-H963]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING THE REVEREND DR. CHERYL J. SANDERS, SENIOR PASTOR, THIRD 
                          STREET CHURCH OF GOD

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, it is especially appropriate during this 
Women's History Month that we have welcomed for prayer a distinguished 
young woman, an ordained minister of the Church of God, the Reverend 
Dr. Cheryl Sanders. Not only is Reverend Sanders the senior minister of 
one of the District's oldest and most distinguished churches, the Third 
Street Church of God, she is professor of Christian Ethics at Howard 
University.
  Not only does Dr. Sanders minister to the poor as a gifted preacher, 
she is a woman of extraordinary intellectual range. She has written and 
taught broadly on subjects ranging from biomedical ethics to the 
Holiness Pentecostal experience and African American religion and 
culture. I am proud to note that she has a special interest in feminist 
ethics.
  Madam Speaker, I am particularly proud and pleased to celebrate 
Women's History Month by having the prayer offered this morning by a 
woman who, like me, is a native Washingtonian, who attended D.C. public

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schools, where she was well prepared to achieve her BA at Swarthmore 
and her masters and doctorate at Howard University Divinity School, 
where she now teaches.
  Dr. Sanders' life as a Christian minister includes her husband and 
two children. The Church is blessed when such an able and dedicated 
woman is called to teach and preach in the Nation's Capital.

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