[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H4371]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  RECOGNIZING GUEST CHAPLAIN, THE REVEREND GREGORY J. JACKSON, SENIOR 
                    PASTOR, MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH

  (Mr. ROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I have had the great privilege of 
representing the district that is the home to Reverend Gregory Jerome 
Jackson, the wonderful man who just gave the invocation.
  Reverend Greg Jackson is a man of great ability, integrity, and 
compassion who has committed his life to helping others and in 
strengthening the bonds of family and community.
  He started his life as the grandson of sharecroppers in South 
Carolina. He made his way at the age of 16, no doubt with divine 
guidance, to the promised land of New Jersey, where he went on to 
graduate from St. Peter's College and the Colgate Rochester Divinity 
School. He even served 2 years here as an intern to Congressman 
Cornelias Gallagher.
  Whether it is in his role as pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church 
in Hackensack, New Jersey, whose membership has risen with 1,000 new 
members under his leadership since 1984, or as an executive board 
member of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, which 
seeks to prevent HIV-AIDS and provide comfort and counsel to those who 
have been affected by the disease in Africa and the Caribbean, or as a 
leader of countless other civic and community organizations, or as the 
loving husband of Barbara and father of Michael and Monique, Reverend 
Greg Jackson has used his unique gifts as a pastor and community leader 
to improve the lives of those around him.
  Mr. Speaker, everyone who has ever met Greg Jackson knows that he is 
a true humanist, a man of great warmth, conviction, and character, who 
has literally improved the lives of tens of thousands of my 
constituents over his nearly 20-year career at Mt. Olive, and who has 
traveled the world saving lives and bringing his deep faith in service 
to millions more.
  I am delighted and proud to be the Congressman for my dear friend, 
the honorable Reverend Gregory Jerome Jackson, and so proud, Mr. 
Speaker, that this institution saw fit to allow him to make the 
invocation this morning.




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