{"id":18669,"date":"2026-02-26T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18669"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:18:36","slug":"the-imas-annual-black-history-month-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/the-imas-annual-black-history-month-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The IMA\u2019s Annual Black History Month Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18670 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMA-pastors-and-audience-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMA-pastors-and-audience-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMA-pastors-and-audience-370x223.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMA-pastors-and-audience.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Times Like These: An Unshakable Faith,\u201d (Psalm 46:1-2) was the theme for this year\u2019s Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance\u2019s annual Black History Month Program held t The Refreshing Place on Sunday, February 22.<\/p>\n<p>The annual celebration brought together a number of IMA religious leaders to deliver the word on the special occasion and also to provide \u201cSpecial Recognition\u201d to a number of distinguished area citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Refreshing Place\u2019s Pastor Christopher Rowell opened the ceremony with greetings and introduced the Praise &amp; Worship portion of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rev. John Williams read scripture; Rev. Shirley Sparks offered a prayer and the Praise Team brought another selection to the delight of the ceremony attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Damon Horton delivered the Statement of Purpose, Rev. Otis Gordon presented the offering and Rev. James Willis introduced the preacher \u2013 Rev. William foster, pastor of Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, who spoke right after the Praise Team performed once again.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Special Recognition honorees were Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, former Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, Toledo City Councilwoman Cerssandra McPherson, Judge Myron Duhart, Judge Nicole Khoury, ABC Health Care\u2019s Mary Reed, Port Authority President Thomas Winston, Rev. Jerome Graham, the Change Academy\u2019s Shawn Mahone, Kitchen of the Poor\u2019s Harvey Savage, the Jewish Federation\u2019s Stephen Rothschild and contractor Blair Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Cedric Brock, pastor of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church and president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance delivered closing remarks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18671\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/good-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/good-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/good-370x220.jpg 370w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/good.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff \u201cIn Times Like These: An Unshakable Faith,\u201d (Psalm 46:1-2) was the theme for this year\u2019s Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance\u2019s annual Black History Month Program held t The Refreshing Place on Sunday, February 22. The annual celebration brought together a number of IMA religious leaders to deliver the word on the special occasion and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[336],"class_list":["post-18669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18673,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions\/18673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}