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Pictured from left to right during a courtesy call on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, by a group of religious leaders from the Bahamas Christian Council are: Miss Jade Williams, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; Pastor Dale Moss; Bishop Perry Newton; Bishop Leroy Emmanuel; Bishop Gregory Minnis; Rev. Roslyn Astwood; Bishop Albert Hepburn; Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C.; Rev. Dr. Beverley Strachan; Ambassador Newry; Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson; Pastor Sharon Williamson; Bishop Trevor Williamson; Miss Tracee Dorestant, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; Rev. Dr. Deanza Cunningham; and Miss Krissy Hanna, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A group of religious leaders from the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC), led by BCC President Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson, are currently on a three-day visit to Washington, D.C.
Also included in the group, which arrived in D.C. on Tuesday, May 17, and is scheduled to leave on Friday, are Pastor Dale Moss of Life Transformational Center; Bishop Perry Newton, Word of Truth; Bishop Leroy Emmanuel, Good Samaritan Kingdom Ministry; Bishop Gregory K. Minnis, New Jerusalem Church; Rev. Roslyn Astwood, St. Stephen’s Baptist Church; Bishop Albert Hepburn, United Christian; Rev. Dr. Beverley Strachan, Assemblies of God; Pastor Sharon Williamson, Trinity Global Cathedral; Bishop Trevor Williamson, Trinity Global Cathedral; and Rev. Dr. Deanza Cunningham, Christ Community.
The visiting religious leaders paid a courtesy call Wednesday morning on the Rev. Donald Isaac, Director of Religious Affairs in the Executive Office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Some of the visiting religious leaders are pictured during their courtesy call Wednesday morning on the Rev. Donald Isaac (right), Director of Religious Affairs in the Executive Office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. At left is Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., and second from left is Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson, President of the Bahamas Christian Council.
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They were accompanied to that meeting by Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., who helped to arrange the visit to D.C. along with Mr. Chris Gardiner, a Bahamian native who is President of Gardiner, Kamya & Associates, PC, a Washington, D.C.-based chartered accounting firm.
Mr. Gardiner hosted a luncheon for the group at the Lauriol Plaza Restaurant in downtown Washington, prior to them paying a courtesy call Wednesday afternoon on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, at the Bahamas Embassy, 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
On Thursday morning, the group officially paid a courtesy call on Consul General Zonicle at the Bahamas Embassy Consular Annex, 1025 Vermont Avenue, N.W.
Thursday afternoon they paid a courtesy call on Rev. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street, N.W., and Thursday night they were scheduled to attend a dinner hosted in their honour by Consul General Zonicle at her home in Fort Washington, Maryland.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During their courtesy call on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 on the Rev. Donald Isaac, Director of Religious Affairs in the Executive Office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the group of religious leaders from the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC) who are on a three-day visit to Washington, D.C., are pictured at the Executive Office of the Mayor with her Director of Religious Affairs.
From left to right are: Rev. Thomas L. Bowen, Assistant Minister at historic Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.; Bishop Gregory K. Minnis, New Jerusalem Church; Bishop Albert Hepburn, United Christian; Rev. Roslyn Astwood, St. Stephen’s Baptist Church; Dr. Donald Isaac; Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C.; Mr. Chris Gardiner, a Bahamian national who is President of Gardiner, Kamya & Associates, P.C.; Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson, President of the BCC; and Rev. Dr. Deanza Cunningham, Christ Community.
Mr. Gardner, whose company is based in Washington, D.C., was instrumental, along with Consul General Zonicle, in arranging the visit to D.C. by the Bahamian religious leaders. He also hosted a luncheon for the group on Wednesday at the Lauriol Plaza Restaurant in downtown Washington.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – During the recent visit to Washington by a group of religious leaders from the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC), Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., hosted a dinner in their honour at her home in Fort Washington, Maryland. Pictured in the front row from left are: Maryland State Senator C. Anthony Muse; His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States; Mrs. Francoise Torchon Newry; Consul General Zonicle; BCC President Rev. Dr. Ranford Patterson, and Bishop Albert Hepburn.
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