2012 Planter Award Dinner and Fundraiser
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The 2012 Planter Award Dinner and Fundraiser will be held June 14, 2012 at Giando on the Water: www.giandoonthewater.com
HONOREES
Rev. Deborah Valentine, New Life Missionary Christian Church
Pastor Deborah K. Valentine was born to Irving and Virginia Valentine in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York. She is the mother of five loving children. As a young child she attended Science Of Life Christian Church, was baptized there and sang on the choir. She accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior in 1975 through the tele-evangelistic ministry of Oral Roberts.
Two years thereafter she received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. She also attended Victory Temple Church Word Ministries (Dr. Ernest Leonard, Pastor) from 1984-1986 where she served as the Secretary of the Choir. In 1989 she came back to Science Of life Christian Church. She was ordained an Evangelist there in 1997 while her mother Pastor Virginia Valentine served as senior Pastor of the Church. In 1999, she was ordained Assistant Pastor. Upon the leading of the Lord the name of the church was changed to New Life Missionary Christian Church. In 2000 Pastor Deborah K, Valentine was ordained Pastor of New Life Christian Church.
The lord has equipped Pastor Valentine to preach, teach and prophesy. The Holy Spirit is her guide and continues to fill her and enable her to lead His people
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ…” Ephesians 4:11,12
John Samuelsen, President of Transport Workers Union, Local 100
John Samuelsen has been President of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 since Jan. 1, 2010. He was born, raised and still resides in Brooklyn, NY. But the indomitable spirit of the Catholic minority of Derry, Northern Ireland on his mother’s side, and his Norwegian ancestry on his father’s side, course through his veins.
John hired on with the New York City Transit Authority in 1993 and was assigned to a Track Gang working out of the crew room at 45th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. It didn’t take him long to see that something was not right on the job. He and his brother union members were working under difficult and unsafe conditions. Managers ignored safety regulations and routinely disciplined workers who stood up against their abuses. Disrespect for the workers and the union was rampant as well.
Before he was even off probation, his co-workers voted him a Shop Steward and he fought vigorously for their rights. Slowly but surely, by winning little battles against the abuses, he and he brother union members were able to turn the tide. That was the start of John’s life in the union. From 2001-2006 he served as Chair, Track Safety Committee, and Chair of the Track Division.
From 2002-2005 he worked as Acting Vice President of Local 100’s Maintenance of Way Department — 7,100 workers providing essential services to the New York City Transit Authority in Track, Line Equipment and Signals, Power and Structure. During those years he also served as Lead Negotiator for all safety related issues in contractual bargaining between New York City Transit Authority and TWU Local 100.
In 2004, he authored the Comprehensive Track Safety Bill, passed by both houses of the NYS Legislature. He was elected President of the 38,000-member Local in December 2009 and assumed officein January 2010. John is guided in his union beliefs by the teachings of James Connelly and TWU Founder Michael J. Quill, and is an ardent believer in industrial trade unionism. Since becoming president, he has used these core union values to help lead a blue-collar backlash against the banks and brokers who engineered one of America’s worst recessions, and have left the financial mess in the laps of our City’s working families.
John and Lisa are married with three children, and are raising their family in the Borough of Churches.
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