Latest / Go News To Go: More Good News / Good Morning. We have a seat for you! Meeting with NYC Comptroller *Mark Levine* and his senior leadership team, along with Pastor Monrose.
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- 0:02Speaker 1: I hope you, uh, my, uh, fellow brother, Sidney, come
- 0:11Speaker 1: to over there.
- 0:21Speaker 2: One of three C.R.A.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Positions, I.A.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Central, and that's to stop traveling all over the city.
- 0:26Speaker 2: You can probably imagine, but when we got sworn in,
- 0:29Speaker 2: he just got sworn in.
- 0:31Speaker 1: A separate book of worship. So that's the first time
- 0:34Speaker 1: that that happened in there, on the Quran, the.
- 0:38Speaker 2: um but thank you to the council to pass some
- 0:42Speaker 2: rules to uh invite you to say some words you.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Know i'm home so i feel good to see a
- 0:49Speaker 1: lot of a lot of folks I'm very excited this
- 1:06Speaker 1: is happening because so many things are happening.
- 1:12Speaker 2: In our city and people sometimes neglect our faith leaders
- 1:16Speaker 2: and our house of worship.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Although when everything is going on in the city, I
- 1:20Speaker 1: hope we don't forget that everybody goes to their houses
- 1:24Speaker 1: of worship to try to get support, mentally, spiritually, sometimes financially,
- 1:28Speaker 1: to try to figure.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Out what's going on. So having these kind.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Of volunteers can help us import knowledge and information.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Please don't hold on to it. So when things are
- 1:38Speaker 2: going on with housing, even.
- 1:40Speaker 1: With health, We're doing a lot of training around ICE,
- 1:44Speaker 1: also with Passing the Road. So I just wanted to
- 1:48Speaker 1: come to say thank you and lend a hand, a
- 1:52Speaker 1: friendly hand, to Shepherd Inn. Shepherding and Hesedah goes around
- 2:11Speaker 1: the city, particularly in the face of... Oh, and I'll
- 2:15Speaker 1: be with you soon, so I guess this is a prelude.
- 2:18Speaker 1: It didn't happen, but people might have to ask us,
- 2:20Speaker 1: so hopefully it happened when you come back home.
- 2:23Speaker 2: But also, I'm a pastor for most of my life.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Was this 15 years ago? 15 years ago? 15, before
- 2:30Speaker 2: the gospel was created.
- 2:31Speaker 1: We were on church avenue after a shooting in the M.A.
- 2:35Speaker 1: in Kamani, great. Doing the best we can to direct
- 2:38Speaker 1: some of our young people's energy. I was going a
- 2:40Speaker 1: little bit the wrong way to try to bring it back.
- 2:43Speaker 1: So that's how far I could go, trying.
- 2:44Speaker 2: To make sure the community's on good footing. You know,
- 2:47Speaker 2: everything I do, you know, is I try to get
- 2:51Speaker 2: somebody who knows me, who writes me, knows what I follow.
- 2:53Speaker 2: He was probably.
- 2:54Speaker 1: The biggest organizer, so he was on the ground with
- 3:00Speaker 1: the people, meeting them where they were, and.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Making sure that they were protected.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Thank you.