[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 14, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E909]
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                HONORING REVEREND THOMAS H. PEOPLES, JR.

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                             HON. ANDY BARR

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 14, 2016

  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor a very special man, Reverend 
Thomas H. Peoples, Jr. He serves as pastor of Historic Pleasant Green 
Missionary Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky.
   Reverend Peoples has led this wonderful congregation, which numbers 
over 1,300 members, for the past thirty-seven years. Historic Pleasant 
Green Missionary Baptist Church was founded in 1790 and is the oldest 
African-American active congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains. 
Rev. Peoples is the eighteenth minster to serve the church. Under his 
leadership, the church has grown in membership and in its community 
outreach. Reverend Peoples is greatly loved and respected by his 
congregation and by the Lexington community.
   Reverend Peoples is a native of Lexington. He is a graduate of Paul 
Laurence Dunbar High School and Simmons Bible College.
   Reverend Peoples has been married for fifty-three years to Delma 
Bennett Peoples. They are the proud parents of five children, including 
three sons in the ministry. They also have numerous grandchildren and a 
great-grandchild.
   Through the ministry of this good Christian man, many people have 
come to know Jesus Christ and serve Him through Historic Pleasant Green 
Missionary Baptist Church and beyond. Countless lives have been changed 
by this man of God and the world is a better place because of his 
ministry. It is my sincere honor to recognize him before the United 
States House of Representatives.

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