Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock preached at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York, last Sunday (April 7), for Grace’s Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson’s 49th anniversary.
Sen. Warnock has been, since 2005, the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once pastored.

In 2021, Warnock became the first African American elected to represent Georgia as U. S. Senator.

Our Time Press is reminded of trailblazer and thought leader Warnock’s first speech on the Senate floor as a newly elected legislator. He called for the protection of voting rights. He described voting as a “kind of prayer.” Warnock said, “As a man of faith, I believe that democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea — the sacred worth of all human beings, the notion that we all have within us a spark of the divine and a right to participate in the shaping of our destiny.” Photo credit: Barry L. Mason