[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 60 (Monday, April 5, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E343-E344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




RECOGNIZING TAMPA'S HEALTH CARE HERO, DR. PATRICK EMMANUEL VINCENT, IN 
                      HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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                           HON. KATHY CASTOR

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 5, 2021

  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, in honor of Black History 
Month, I am celebrating Tampa's health care heroes. Today I rise in 
immense gratitude for the life of service of retired pastor, Dr. 
Patrick Emmanuel Vincent, who because of his vision and leadership, 
approximately 1,500 of our neighbors of the East Tampa community have a 
medical home and access to free health care through the Calvary 
Community Clinic. Born in 1948 in the southeasterly Caribbean islands 
of Trinidad and Tobago, our community is fortunate that for the past 
nearly 20 years he has called Tampa Bay his home and for his pastoral 
service leading the congregation of Mount Calvary Seventh Day Adventist 
(SDA) Church since 2001 until his retirement in 2016.
  Dr. Vincent always wanted to be a minister of the gospel as far back 
as he could recall. He started his preparation for ministry at the 
University of the Southern Caribbean in Maracas Valley, a few miles 
northeast of his childhood home. He then moved to Mandeville, Jamaica 
to complete his bachelor's degree at the Northern Caribbean University. 
He graduated with a master's degree in Divinity from the SDA 
Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Michigan. He completed 
his Doctor of Ministry degree at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. 
His pastoral ministry took him to Nashville and Chattanooga, TN, as 
well as Birmingham, AL and Orlando, FL. He became a renowned church 
builder and church growth specialist. As the senior pastor of Mount 
Calvary SDA Church in Tampa, Dr. Vincent led his congregation into 
their beautiful new sanctuary and reconstructed the church's school.
  But Dr. Vincent's vision went beyond serving the congregation of his 
church. He led a survey within the East Tampa community where his 
church is located to determine the most critical need. In response to 
the growing uninsured population in this area, the Calvary Community 
Clinic was established in 2015 to provide quality, compassionate health 
care. Dr. Vincent raised funding through Mount Calvary Church 
endowments and membership contributions, community initiatives, 
donations from corporations as well as grants. Today, Dr. Vincent 
serves as the chair of the Board of Directors for the clinic and a 
volunteer staff of certified physicians, physicians assistants, nurse 
practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, counselors, social workers, and 
clerical and support personnel provide free healthcare and health 
education services to the uninsured, underserved and working poor 
individuals and families of East Tampa and Hillsborough County.
  Dr. Vincent is happily married to Judy Williams and together, they 
have committed their lives in service to God and their neighbors.
  Madam Speaker, on behalf of a grateful nation and Tampa Bay 
community, I am proud to recognize Dr. Patrick Emmanuel Vincent, and 
his lifetime of servant leadership, spiritual guidance and his 
entrepreneurial spirit to uplift

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and grow his congregations and beyond that, his community at large.

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