NAACP Day at Progressive Union M.B. Church by Rod Matthews, SON Messenger

Supporters and members of NAACP (courtesy photo)

The Progressive Union M. B. Church celebrated its annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Day on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the 8:00 and 11:00 a.m. services. Speaker for both services was Ms. Alethea Bonello, Re-gional Youth Field Director for the NAACP Region V. Ms. Bonello mentors and directs youth and college students in the NAACP Region V which includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee, Texas, Wis-consin, and West Virginia. Ms. Bonello delivered a message from II Samuel 23:8-12, 20-21, her message title was "We Return Fighting". In attendance were Ms. Alice Sams, president of the Huntsville-Madison County branch of the NAACP; Mr. Leonard Phillips, president of the Alabama A&M University (AAMU) Bulldog chapter of the NAACP, the state's largest college chapter; Rev. Robert Shanklin, past president of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and an associate minister at Progressive Union; his wife, Mrs. Cynthia Shanklin, Women In the NAACP (WIN) Coordinator for the Huntsville-Madison County branch of the NAACP; Mrs. Ada Houston, Mrs. Eva Smith, and Mr. Roosevelt Miller longtime volunteers and officers at the Huntsville-Madison County NAACP and other NAACP officers and members. Rev. Wayne Snodgrass is the pastor of Progressive Union.