Stan's Special People Spotlight guest(s) are Dr. Gina M. Stewart, Senior Pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church. She is celebrating 30 years today as Pastor and serving her community.
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WDIA's Stan Bell spoke with the newly elected Mayor of Horn Lake, MS. His name is the Honorable Jimmy Stokes. He is the first African-American Mayor to hold this office. He will be officially sworn-in July 1, 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis Boring and Brad walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show weekday morning from sixty
ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis, ten
seventy w D.
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I A oh yeah, I did hear a legal id y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Did bump rush the studio? I'm out of breath again.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
First I ran over there to Shery MCA congratulated that.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I came back out in the green room.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm looking at doctor Gina Stuart, so let me let
me see where what is there?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, w I listens, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
A m ten seventy w D, I A Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Let's call it legalized doctor Stuart. Right, you know how y'all? Yeah,
you know yeah, that's how you saying back to the
day just used to work there. That's all ready out
that you say that like that, that's the all readson
out said with respect to mister Gilliam.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean when he bought this station, it was a
major thing radio station. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, he got just coing together and he said, look,
I want to do this five people.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, and it's maintained he has.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can you say those call letters real quickly like you
just did voice addiction and the other ones, so we
can make sure I can keep my job.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Am ten seventy w d. I ool say it again again.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I like that you said it better than me. She
could do it again. I articulate that this thing to
Am ten seventy w d.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I A.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh, she didn't need no notes. I tell Nick.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The boy said, I got this, So I'm talking about you.
Don't open this thing on fire. Listens in the studio
with me now, the one and only. I'd like to
put a good intro this thing, the.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
One and only.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna keep it.
And they say keep it simple, keep it you know,
keep it real, keep it succinct. Uh, Doctor Jenny Steward,
good morning, good morning. Look, come on up to the
mica a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know I'm better than going up to the morning
you ain't you know? Stranger to you right about.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
This?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You are right, that's right, Gena. I see a Stewart's
in the building. I was looking for the sorority pair
of nagure, but I saw I don't have any read
on today, just the cross off.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Read in the room when I walked in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Somebody, don't keep it looking, keep a look read in
the room on purpose.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You see the colors of the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So let me open this way.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Two most important words in the language, thank you, and
the most important word is we least important. I right.
So at least thirty minutes or so, maybe twenty one,
it's going to be the doctor Gina. I see a
Stewart show, okay, featuring Staying Bill.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Okay, you know I'm a pushing more power than right.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm a decrease so that I can. Okay, you read
the fry. You know I went. I went to Sunday
School school. That's about it. With St.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
John Grahamy the six fort advance, you know somebody.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, you know, my grandparents came out of Saint John.
My mother came out of Saint John. In fact, I
have a cousin that goes to Saint John. Betty Smith, yeah,
Betty Boys and the Gossips, the gossips, you know the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Absolutely, yeah, George Gossip.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, chairman of the deacon board, that's right, Superintendent, Yeah, yeah,
I know them gossips folks.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, wow, yeah, said I.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Knew you had a six forty advanced avenue connection somewhere.
I knew when all South falkon the mound there.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, I have some pastry with Saint John. I have
other relatives over there to the rankings. Yeah yeah, those are.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
My cousins over there off Acacia. Yeah a Lisa Rankin
and yeah Lisa, you show got some history. Yeahlah, And
this is all right. So I invited you to come
and be with us because number one, you're real, Thank you.
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Number two people love you, glory to God. And number
three you love and lost.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I do love Jesus.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I love.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You heard every day. I love the Lord. Come on
every day. Build everybody, government, every government. Listen. Linda wants
to hitting you up. I'm telling you, I know that
your line is lightened up.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Louis.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I was trying to think of my other cousin, you know,
absolutely sorry interrupted nor to name.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Lewis.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, turning then it does senior. Yeah that's some
of that same John stuff people.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Matter of fact, spaking of doctor Stewart, he was just
he had a pool name after him after him at
in Rice.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Because the O. C. B. Lewis Junior Aquatic Center isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, that's significant. That's that's strong right there, O Sa
lewis my family. Yeah, you got some connection in this thing. Connection. Well,
you know what, I'm going to take a pause. That
that was an opening amount of log take a part.
I don't mean to rise. I'm a poet and don't
know it. I see my Woodale crew over there. We're
gonna where your fans are fans about the practicing. We're
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gonna talk about that we got I think you have
a got you you deserve a celebration. Well, thank you,
you can you deserve a c Yeah. Things he's done
allowed you to be up there. I said thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Thirty Yeah, thirty years, thirty years.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It is a wonder since ninety five is nineteen ninety
you were elected to March fourth, nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You remember that day though, I remember that day like
it was just today. We and here we are, thirty
years later. We're gonna talk about the celebration that is
deserving of one Gina Steward and we're glad to have you,
have you in the studio.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm gonna move on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm gonna play a few bills so I can get
this check on the fifteenth. I was looking for it
last night in the portal in the what they call
it when they're having is in the portal when yeah,
it's comments, how I say loading, loading, So I'm gonna
pay the commercial you.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Know how they go live. Those of you are just
tune in.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We're talking to the one and only doctor gene My
Sea Stewart Singior pastor. I said, sing, you sing your pastor,
Christ Missionary Baptist Church. Let me pay, let me do
this and we'll come right back in there. Everybody who
were having fun in the radio station.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I started to put doctor Jenni Stewart back here. She
can work the boys, she can work the mic. She
she know the lingo. You worked that boy, I told you,
like ride the bike. You've done it before, you can
do it again, just like God you did it before,
do it again.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hello, Hello, somebody, it's just a secular station of this. Yeah,
quote descriptions and ms. All of life is sacred. All
of life is sacred. Come on, come on teach to Yeah,
all of life is sacred.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So even when you're doing secular work, you can do
it as an offering to God.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Wow. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That was the first lesson they taught us in seminary,
that we don't live this bifurcated existence. That there is
no distinction between the sacred and the secular, that all
of life is sacred, and so we integrate.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We live.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
An integrated life means that even though you're working for
a secular radio station, when you do your job, because
you're a man of God and a man of faith,
it can be an offering to God. So you may
work in a secular environment, but as a Christian, as
a believer, what you do still becomes an offering.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's good, convicted God, Mama, thank you. Now you have
to make the choice to make it an offering. Of course,
you have to make the choice to make it an offer.
It becomes an offering as you make your offering to God.
So I can stay right here for a little longer.
Another word, when I hit out of what you just say.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You have an opportunity, really to make this an offering
to God in a different way, because there's a population
that will hear you. They wouldn't necessarily come through a
church door. So this is your opportunity to express your faith.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So, in other words, in Layman's turn. No matter what
a man, no matter what, no matter what a no matter,
it matters not.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Whatever your context, whether you are.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Secular space.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
If you embrace this idea, this this philosophy, this ideology
that all of life is sacred, it becomes opportunity for
it to be transformed into sacred space. Because a lot
of that has to do with how you navigate and
manage the influence that you have. So you don't just
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talk about faith on Sunday. You talk about faith when
you're on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, it doesn't matter what a man does. It determines
whether his work is sacred. To second is why he
does it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Well, it does matter what you do, but it's also
how you do it and why you do it and
the motive behind which because you can be it can
remember I said, it can be an opportunity. There's no
distinction between the sacred and secular. But what I do
can become an offering to God in the way that
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I do my job. For example, I used to be
the directive admissions at Shelby State Community College before I
started pastoring. That was ministry for me because even though
I wasn't you know, standing behind a poolpit or anything.
Ministry became. My opportunity for ministry was in helping students,
removing barriers, helping to remove barriers, advocating for equality even
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in policy when it relates when as it related to
some of the ways that some of the opportunities that
I saw to be more equitable towards students. I used
to be not only the director of admissions but also
the director of Allied Health Admissions. So there were things
that excuse me that I recommended because of what I
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thought would help to improve and level the play and feel.
So ministry is not always big m In other words,
if people think sometimes that the only folks that are
in ministry are people that wear the clerical garb and
who have collars around there, Uh, wear collars around their neck,
or they're standing behind a pulpit. But as my mentor,
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Shirley Prince used to used to advocate, we're all ministers
in some way because we all servants, and everybody is
not going to be in a pool pit, but wherever
you stand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's what she used to say, that, Hey, that's right, so.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
This is your pool pit, this is your pul pit,
right this sound I'm about to shout out this.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Over there.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't have a feeling that you know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Can I go delicate to a phone line, Doctor Stewart head,
you don't mind, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The I come on you in the radio. Who's our
first caller? Yeah? You in the air. I'm saying, yeah,
go on, thank you for calling. It sounds like Roby.
I'm not sure it is.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I am happy, glad to be able to call in
this radio station and to express my complete joy, appreciation,
and honor for Reverend doctor, Sister Lady Pastor Jena Stewart.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
She has been a blessing in my life and in
the lives of my family members.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Staying two weeks ago Tuesday, on.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
The twenty seventh, she preached my baby sister sim Yes
and mar.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
And when I called her to ask her the JEWI
because I've.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Told the folks, says, well, we won't ended up playing.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Something one did Robie all got one demand. Jenus threw
a preachers as sooner I don't pay in July.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
And she arranged us to have it at.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Six o'clock at night, so more than members of the
art community to come and be there. That was her idea,
not Roby's, not our family her idea, so her extended
family from the arts community could be there.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
And we had their homegoing service. But saying I want
to say this in the community, this woman is a
real pastor. When law and that's mother, we have little mothers.
When her mother was sick and was about to die,
this woman was. This pastor was at her house twelve thirty.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That night, the night before she died, and her last
words was I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
She was there.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I love this woman, man, I tell the world.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
And for those of you guys who think that women
can't begret your food, tell me things about you.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
You never heard Prince, You never heard Jena Stewart that
I know two things about you. If you believe that
I know.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Two things about you, you never heard Shirley Prince.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You never heard you.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Sure, I love you, sister lady. A blessing in my
life and in the lives of my family.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you man.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Thank you God, bless yes you prayer.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Thank God.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Uh yeah, that's great, that's great. Kind of a yeah
right there, I didn't know you officiated.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That her home going Yeah, Laurenette was a member, probably
close to I would say maybe twenty plus years. I
met Laurinette when I was narrating for the Angelic Voices
of Faith, and she joined our church and then she relocated. Yeah, Billy, Yeah, actually,
and I need to give credit where credit is due.
(14:26):
It was really Billy who recommended that we have that
service at night. He was sensitive to that idea of
having that service at night, and I just recommended it
to Robie, and Robie consented for us to have that
service in the evening.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well, his family grateful, Yeah, Roby's family, William service.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Laarenette was a great, really gifted singer, actress, writer, producer,
all of that tremmbous loss. Yeah, yeah, but her legacy,
her legacy lives on. No, I'm sure they're very grateful
you officiating that. And I've been at several that you
have homegoing celebrations that you officiated. And I'm telling you,
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I remember one you you pulled out the Facebook fans.
You remember that, I'm on the hall.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You out have better memories than I. You said, this
is what they said. You let the people do the U.
Look you said, I'm pulling up on Facebook right now.
And all these folks saying the type of person she
was facebook, you doing like this, you should do it
like that. So and so said this, and then after
that more teaches you make you said, I gotta say
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much motive.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Well you know what they say, you live your ul
Yeah that's what they say. Yeah, yeah that's today you
live well you die. Well see that I said, look
at store, you up that door, praise the Lord.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I like that, dude. And see that's why I like you.
You distinct. It's unique, you real you.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You keep it right what people talk about, making it
plain and still in the book. Yeah, as you tag
you with. All right, you gotta stay in there because.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I said, at least have a slither. That's what makes
it a sermon.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That sliver. Just need theology, just a little bit of that.
Uh that that bust to see. Just you know, we're
speaking with the senior pastor of Christmisionary Baptist Church, the
one and only doctor Gina Marcia Stewart. She is celebrating
thirty years as pastor the Angel of the House. Yeah yeah,
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and and it deserves a celebration. I just wanted to
get I just wanted to get her voice on the air.
I wanted her to come see me. I didn't want
to do a phone interview. I didn't want to I
don't like to.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Do a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I want them to come see about me. Give me
them Supreme Sean, come come seeing the eyes on you.
I really wanted to lay hands on me. But that's
why I told her come up.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But I'm just right back. We take sure, break me
right back us to my throw the lady.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Let me tell the the reverend, doctor Ginam, I see
a steward, energetic, faithful, loving visionary preacher, a jump professor, teacher,
community advocate.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
You went to.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Google, You went to Google Amazon. I showed you. That
means you win. There in the book the work I've
done speak for it does. It's little we. There's a
lot of adjectives right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
There, doctor Ginam, I see a steward, energetic, faithful, loving
visionary preacher, ad jump professor, teacher, former d J.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I said, that's right. Did you did you know I
used to.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Be a D I didn't know that's one of those,
but I kind of heard her the breaker. Yeah, he says,
tell somebody one thing they wouldn't know about you.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I was a DJ. Wow. Yeah, I went station on,
I got.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
I want you to pay the bill, work for you
for six years, yeah, yeah, six years on the air,
six years yeah yeah, across across the way when they had.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
This st Yeah that was back when you know, you
had cartridges and turntables.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The clock yeah back announced yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They sliced up like a pile of clocks in this
little right over the board.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I learned I learned the length of the songs. Yeah yeah,
I said, I can go right into the restroom. That
song is seven minutes and three seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Somebody. That sounded like Stairway to Heaven, o J. But
you get back to along right there, you come back.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No there, Cole, he's prepared me seven minutes and fourteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, that's yeah. That was where they're playing gospel. Right,
that's right, you know seven minutes and how many long
seven minutes fore you show was at DJ.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah you know that stuff, she said back, announcing back,
announcing back, timing it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's right. How many hours that is that? She's said?
Much radio? Top of an hour? You showed you little
somebody did stre now, but of course that was years ago. Yeah, yeah, Manamo,
that sounds like late eighties, early thirty years ago. I
stopped when I started passing. You got elected pretty much.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, Yeah, it was a lot of time, time consuming,
and yeah, I understand you had one of the long
radio shifts. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Needed to free up saturdays because I knew I would
probably have funerals.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, another thing, take another phone call if you don't mind,
please U let me take it here.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Uh got you here? Got your still on, Doc Stewart?
I do all right? Uh that da good morning? You're
living the radio? Anybody there? Yeah? Good morning? Who am
I speaking with? Taking with lovely lady D? Lady D,
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Lady D?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come right up to that phone? Got some audio issues there,
just a little bit. I want a little more clarity,
So don't get it out there for the good doctor.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You know she feeling.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It with j T.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That's the first I ever heard of it. And what happened.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I only somebody that says women shouldn't be pastor And
you know I call you don't think what he should
be doing anything.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Class you're going in and out, but but you think
she should. So your life was a little bit clear
because you're about to say some good stuff here.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
She's she's uh, challenging the mythology that women should not
or the theology that women should not be preachers or
pastors you want. I'm still surprised that people are having
that discussion.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Really, lady, let her talk to you for a little while.
You listen.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, it's interesting that after all these years, people are
still debating of whether or not women should be Well,
you know, there are two streams of thought. There are
people they say that women shouldn't preach, and then there
are people say that the people that say, well, women
can preach, but they can't pastor. And of course, if
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you're looking for a reason to suppress the gifts of women,
there you can find it in the Bible, because Iso
Jesus makes that possible. But the Bible also says that
we slaves should obey obey their masters. There are so
many passages of scripture that, particularly when they're read out
of context or even when they're read literally, lead to
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oppressive types of theologies then undergird many of our traditions
in our churches. And so what's interesting to me though,
is that people are still talking about the fact that
women cannot lead that women and this is not just
limit to churches. I mean, this is probably why we
have not been able to move women in other male
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dominated fields because of these kinds of perspectives. But the
real elephant in the room is sexism. It is a
system that induces this notion of inferiority upon women based
on gender, and it's also based on tradition. Many people
don't necessarily, like Robi just said, if you don't think
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women can preach, you haven't heard certain women. No, possibly
not because some other person, some authority figure in their
life said to them that women should not preach.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And then, of course some of it is.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Just tradition, which is tradition and then inherited faith traditions
as well as biblical literalism. You read and just take
a verse out of context and don't read the context
around that verse, it's very easy to draw those kinds
of conclusions. But personally, I say it's too late for
the discussion because after thirty years, you know, at this point,
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I'm kind of like, yeah, I'm kind of like the frog.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
They told this story about the frog.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
They kept jumping up and down because they kept saying,
you're not gonna succeed, You're not gonna do it. And
the frog kept jumping, and they found out the frog
was deaf. That's why frog ignored.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I'm not dead.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
But you learn, you learn to still do the work,
and you have to you have to be clear about
the fact that God has called you to this work.
If I really listened to what people think about what
I should be doing, I wouldn't be sitting here thirty
years later. I would have stopped a long time ago,
even even before I started pastoring, just going into the
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ministry in general.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Uh, the Reverend doctor Jenna M. Stewart, b D.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
A Masters in Education MD as we call it d men,
come on, keep on going, stand d come.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
On a b d for a PhD in Preaching and
sacred rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I have.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
All I have left now is the dissertation, and I'm
going to be writing about the ministry of doctor Claude
Anderson Copeland.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Now, who is Claude And you don't break it back God,
she is U miss yeah doctor.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
She's out of San Antonio, Texas, tremendous preaching, gift and voice,
has been preaching for about close to fifty years.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
She the wife of the.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
No No No This Bishop David Michael Copeland. They passed
her a New Creation Christian Fellowship in San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Text google her.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
The way we describe her in our circles is that
she's deep and oily deep, and yeah, yeah you should.
You should google her and go listen to I will
check that outre yes, do it?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, let's talk about I know a lot of
celebrations are being planned for you in the thirtieth anniverse.
If you will being there at Christ Mission and a
Bapti church, I know. Whatever you do, folks, you have
that charisma, you have the annoyting you have. People love
you so I can I'm almost I'm sure safe to
say whatever they eventure planning this weekend is gonna be
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sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It is sold out. Yeah wow, thank god, thank god.
I get that part. Somebody shot budget.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Somebody shall bills. But people have been very very supportive,
attack generous, generous. Yeah that's good. That's good.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So you got what's going on? Christ Mission of Baptist
Sich why we were wrapping up. You got Vacation Bible School.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah, Vacation Bible School and it starts this coming Monday
from six to eight. The church is located at four
eighty South Parkway East, and it's we don't just have
classes for children, we also have classes for adults. That's
one of the reasons why we do it in the evening,
so that we can have a menu that will cater
to all ages. So it will be Monday through Friday.
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We would love for them to come. And then of course,
you know, we have worship.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Worship.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
The address for the Vacation Bible School and for our
worship experience is for eighty South.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Parkway eighty for eightyway, yeh.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's yeah, that's our new building where we have worshiping
and Vacation Bible School. If they're mailing something to the church,
they should mail it to four ninety four South Parkway East,
and also we stream our services online. I want to
invite them to worship Sunday morning. Bishop Kevin Willis one
of my longtime friends. He and his wife New Life
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up Memphis. He and his wife, doctor Linda Willis, have
We have been friends probably close to thirty or thirty
five years. There's never been a moment in my life
that the Willises have not shown up. And so Bishop
Willis is going to be preaching Sunday. It's Father's Day
so I always try to bring a brother in for
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the men. So he's gonna be Kathy Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
She'll be singing.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
So that.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Oh, how pressure man's trying to do. Lord, he needs
a two time keep.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Me over here. That was I ain't gonna like to
have Louis. I ain't ready yet.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Later I'm about to show up, okay, but good intentions
for effort to give you an effort, Yes, extra effort wins.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I went over to Metropolitan.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That's what they say, Doctor Michael Moore, Hello, somebody doct
Doctor christ would be hearing Moore.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
There you go, come on, Yes, y'all, y'all schooling me up.
And there they just walked in the studio the ball tray,
you know, and my sister were classmates members Katholic.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, y'all learn something new everything.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Oh Marie Isa your head, your head okay, but that's
how far back we gop and you want students?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I did.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I graduated from him Chargers in nineteen seventy eight, telling
my age, Lord.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Gone, ain't looking good? Come on, praise the Lord looking good. Look.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So it's been a plump pleasing pleasure. Thank you so
to have you on the show us that the Great
Rufus Thomas will say. It's been a plump pleasing privilege
and a pleasure have doctor Stewart on here. Shout out
to my guy, Adrian stick one of your one of
your managers. I got what you call one of the courtinators.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Adrian is the director of logistics at our church the
rest of the Adrian really is a logistical genius.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
If you give Adrian something to do, you can go
to bed get He will get it done, get it done.
He will leave no stone unturned. Good morning Adrian, my guy.
Is he on the car? Yeah? He shot me. He
shot me something. He shot an email said you're doing
a good job job Steyn. He's somewhere listening, somewhere listening.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But I really do want to give a shout I
really want to give a shout out to Adrian, because
Adrian has done a lot of the leg work and
coordinating in terms of the hotel and going back and
forth beings acting as a liaison. But also my sister
and my god brother, Maria Stewart and will Famua of
the chairpersons and the steering ministry who have all worked
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so hard and the team leads. Uh many hands make
work light and it makes work easier. So I want
to thank all of them because they are the ones
that have worked to create the experience that we'll have tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So God bless them. And Bob says, the hand, the
hand of the diligence makes one. Come on. Now, you
know the Bible. I just problem, That's all I know.
So don't We won't ask you to cite the reference.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
We don't want you to be like somewhere I read
in Isaiah and it's really in Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You got it right, though you don't have me for
no backup reference. That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well, let me say thank you the way I'm gonna
end the program the way we started. Too much important words,
thank you, thank you in the language, in my opinion,
thank you most important word. We don't come together do
this work least important. You know, I've been doing this
thing just about as long as you've been. You know,
behind that sacredary, we appreciate you to. Yeah, yeah, we're
gonna turn up, We're gonna we're gonna have a little.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Fun tonight, absolutely because we would be on the dance
for We're.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Gonna we're gonna lecture, slide and look forget the on
the on the ground, and we're gonna planet rocking, and
we're going all of that before.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
We're gonna breaking Beverly And you gotta play something with
a sly stone.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Every day. People.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, and Doc Stewart, thank you for letting me be
myself again.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I get that. Preacher, you got that. I gotta take
a breakway out, thank.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Pastor Stacey Andrews and Deacon sh they accompany me. They
accompanied me today. Yes, you got I have some good people.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I got good people, good people, character, good behavior.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yes, the Bibles members and good people.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
The Bibles drops, evil company, corrupt.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on the word of God for the people. Listen,
you don t to go. I believe it is. I'm
going on to guess We're gonna take a break. Wanting
to thank the repend.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Doctor Gina Mysel Stewart, lovely on to rog Station and Sean.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
And all the members of Christ Missionary in the household
of fair Christ Missionaire. Yes, Baptist Church.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
People who are courageous enough uh huh to call a
woman talk talk sister. See eleven o'clock Sunday. All right,
be right back, I'm taking a shore break.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We're gonna have the Honorable Jimmy Stokes, Mayor elect of
horn Link, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
First black man as maya be right back can being.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Back to everybody, Thank you so much for being here.
We got a lot of activity going on in the studio.
Good activity, positive activity.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And we're kind of like you know, almost just being
transparent musical chairs. You know, when I get a guest, Uh,
sometimes I'll pass it on through the suite if you will,
and let some of our sister stations have had our
special guest of course, doctor g. Marceilla Stewart as over
now at Hallelujah, and our sister stations of inspiration over
talking to I believe Sherry Mackie over there. And now
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we have the Honorable Jimmy Stokes Mayor elect. Am I
saying it right, Mayor elect horn Lake, Mississippi. Yes, sir,
am I crooked letter, crooked letter, hum back, hump back
am I in the yes.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I said, come on up to the microphone, Jimmy, how
does it sound? How does it feel?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Has it kicked in yet?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
You on?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's still unreal?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Uh you know, of course I was running the run,
but uh, you know, for my family and I are
still like, hey, they would just do that, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And then it's we have a humble spirit. You know.
Everybody the church called me pastor, mayor.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
You got some guys to the neighborhoods a little comed
jim and the neighborhood mayor, and we were all like.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Hey, I'm still Jimmy, you know, still little talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Me about man. First of all, thank you for being here. Man,
talk to me about I'm gonna get right to it. Man,
talk about me. Talk to me about the campaign trail?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
How was it?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
That?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Was it difficult? But I know it's tedious. You knocked
on doors, you have a lot of supporters. Uh, missus
Stokes right there by your by your side. I mean,
how does can you chronicle it? Because at first you
were were you a commissioner.
Speaker 9 (34:01):
Commissioner War five Planning commission get sir, yeah, So what
got into your spirit to say, you know what I want,
for lack of a better expression, go a little bit higher,
but I want to be the mayor. Well twenty seventeen,
alder Woman and Seanna Johnson, who's our first African American
Alderman made me her appointed Planning Commission of War five.
From that point on, I began to serve learn what
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it takes when it comes to working out of side
the Planning Department as a commissioner board that make recommendations
to the Alderman board.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And doing that, I realized that, you know, I worked
good in politics. You know I didn't like politics, which
you were not a fish out of water. Yeah, this
thing kind of uh you know, it's becoming of you.
And so you got rathering up some folks and saying,
you know what, I'm run.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I received a call, but I did.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
I didn't meet with Alan Latimer, the mayor at one time,
and uh and I was just sitting there in the
office and I said, you know what, God can, God,
I think.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
God got He's showing me something. You know, Uh, we can.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
I can do it too, right, I can lead people.
I'm already leading people. I already serve people. So there's
nothing to transition into serving people from a government perspective. Right,
So I decided to run for office in twenty twenty one.
Got a call from the Soto kind of Democratic party chair.
And it's amazing. Like a few years before that, I
told my church, I think God called me to run
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from here Horn Lake, and uh, and I saw I
see myself leading people because I see where I'm seeing
some of my head. When I drive through Horn Lake,
I see something that we could be better than this.
Right and so my wife will tell you every time
I ride down good Man Road. Uh, some sore thumb,
sore thumbs that I see. I'm like, man, while we
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got this right here? Why this ragging the buildings? Says
sitting here, and I can't, I really can't stand there
like well, I wanted somebody to do something about it.
But anyway, so you talked about you asked me about
the campaign trail. So in twenty twenty one we laid
the foundation if we went and I knew the city
didn't know me that a lot of them don't pay
attention to politics.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I'm a commissioner.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
Of course, nobody comes to meet and you might have
three people sitting in the meeting, in the audience and
they have a case. But we knocked on doors. I
think Bill ignorant, our god rich, his soul. He ran
with me. He was running for all them at large.
We knocked on about three thousand doors, you know, by
ourselves and mister Covid. So we introduced ourselves to the city.
So God was laying the platform for me to run
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in twenty twenty five. This time, now only did we
knock on doors, God starts sending you know.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
At first, I was like, man, Bill Ignor died. You know,
it's my partner. I'm gonna do this now. God said, look,
use your skill set, use your skill set while you're
on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yes, I'm still I'm still grieving my partner.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, yeah, knocking on doors and yeah hell our father, yes, yes,
so my wife she let me my wife Alquila, who's
here with us today. She let me know agent, don't
put the mic on the first lady, come on, he said,
aequila like that a quilla and the beat tyler perr.
Everybody got it, Like the lady can smell real good.
You spelled pretty good at first, lady, you spelled pretty good.
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You got the name pression.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
First lady. Good to have you in here, Thank you,
good to be here. What's so, what's the name of
your church?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Northeast Side Church of Christ and North Church of Christ
and bartlet Tennessey.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yes, good morning, Jackson, Yeah you Church of Christ. He
loves it.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Uh so you and we said Bartlet Bartlet Tennis. Oh wow,
so that brings me this. So you got Memphis roots?
You you from Memphis, Yes, sir, hold on, let's let's
chronicle this thing again. Where you go to elementary? I
went to fairly elementary and Whiteaven Elementary. Okay, fairly elementary,
white even elementary. Then what junior High? I say, Junior High?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
You?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I said, Mili, you're like, hold up, hey, junior high. Yes, sir,
missus Gentry.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
The honorable doctor, honorable doctor, City Gentry principal. And then
from Haven View Junior High. You went the Haven High School. Okay, house,
I'm trying to think about d y'all prom back then
in nineteen nine, eight ninety eight. You know miss Helen
Jones Jones. Yeah, yes, she was my neighbor across the street.
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Well she is my neighbor really Edward Avenue nor Remember
she would always she talked what is cosmetology or something like, yes, sir,
and she's also singior sponsor. Good morning Helen Jones. Yeah,
one of your one of your sons up in the studio. Yes,
you'd be proud of them.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Man, that's the small world White Haven.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
And that's probably when Vincent Hunter, doctor Van Hunter. He
was probably just on facult He wasn't the principal at
the at the time when you were there, it was
a football coach, football coach. He was the assistant coach
when I first came in under coach Collins h.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Collins. He transitioned into head coach. I think my senior year. Wow, yes,
and then yeah yeah, and Hunter became principal. What was
it not was it nine eight?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
No, No, that was it was.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It was probably during the time my brother, Corpus Stokes,
attorney to the Queen Stokes. My sister was four or
something year early two thousands, like they had car beackers,
I believe. Oh, mister Beckers, James sure was.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
He sure was.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, it was later I came on, Yeah, I forgot, Yeah, yeah,
James Backers, Yeah he sure was. So so I got folks,
you knowing that you are. You're not a robot, You're
a Memphian. You you know this, you know Memphis and
and now you know horn Lake. So I'm gonna ask first, lady,
right quick, come on back to the mike. You'ren't gonna
let let job that ease. You knew your husband's gonna
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win did you you just felt it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I felt like he was gonna win.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You nervous about that thing, but you everyone counts right,
and then you will open up the next day the paper,
the headline reads, Stokes stumps the competition.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
That president.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
They're gonna print them for all to see.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Man, you gotta well, sister, you got an amazing husband,
obviously pastor of the church, and now he's done. He's
been a commissioner. They call it aldermen, you know. Uh
and horn Lincks. Is that where you are reside now?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, I'm county Yeah, yeah, that about fourteen years. So
what's the first thing you gotta do? Man? What you
gotta ge accomplished?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
What?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
What's your vision?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What's your you know what You're gonna roll up your
sleeves in the ground, and what's the first thing on
your mind?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Priority right now?
Speaker 9 (40:22):
Comfort the staff? Uh at city Hall. It's a culture shock.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:27):
You got to think about them being the first African
American mayor. There may be some things that even security
wise police haven't thought about. Number One, people may think
that I'm gonna come into a firing party, and I
to make it clear that's not how things operate in
the transition. You think you get to know people. Thank
you coming and get to know people. You get people
a fair chance, uh to serve in the administration. So
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right now, letting them know it's gonna be a different environment.
It's not gonna be a mayor. It's a little bit
officish from its people. But hey, man, I'm coming in
and make your day bright. I want you to go
home and after enjoying work, and I want you so
stressed being up here that you can't go home and function.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah right, we're gonna get the job done. Job, but
we were gonna do it right.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
So but then also get get into the community to
make sure the community know, especially in the areas where
they haven't had a lot of support from the city,
that hey, you got to make it.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I got your back. We can't turn everything around in
three to four years when you're thirty.
Speaker 9 (41:17):
Years thirty forty years behind in infrastructure and the economy.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
But guess what we're gonna You're gonna see a U turn.
We gotta make a you turn, gotta make a new turn,
and you're the man to do it. Let me take
a break right quick. We're talking with a Mayor elect
of horn Lake, Mississippi, the one and only, the Honorable
Jimmy Starts and the first lady I think so much
for coming back everybody. When the waning moments of the
Standville Morning Show, a lot of excitement in the studios
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here one thousand oaks. Man, you know where I loving
Friday's roll around. I know a lot of you like to,
you know, do the conversation over conversation and you get
it now. You know, every Friday we got somebody special on.
That's why we call it Stands Special People. Spotlight had
the Reverend doctor Ginam. I see us Steward on early
in the first half hour. If you will, uh, you know,
you get dot Stewart on you you tend to go
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over time, you know what I mean. It's like the preachers.
I'm and I'm closing, and I'm closing, but uh, you know,
but what time will spend? And now we've got the
Honorable jim Is Stouts, Mayor Elect horned Lake, Mississippi in
the building. And make no bones about it. Uh, from
what I've seen and read and the bio and everything,
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you're the man for the job. And even just hearing
your enthusiasm on these air waves. Lets me know that
you you ready to go to work, yes, sir, and
your mission and then this out there. I mean you
said earlier there's something about the infrastructure, and you're looking
at the streets and you're looking at some other things
that you want to take care of you but you
want to keep the relationship with those employees, you know, intact,
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and those are your workers, you know intact.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I like that man, so as Mayor.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Uh, that's that's some big shoes, right, but your shoes,
your feet just got bigger and you can feel them.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Dock. So you're feeling good this morning?
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (42:59):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Have you really honestly had a chance to ex al
I think we did Sunday pre Sunday morning. You're looking
at first lady. Now, yeah, I guess we calm down
just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
But it's if I know, who's the lady that contacted
me to come up here, for you to get up here,
Miss Wiggins, Nisa something like that, mister Wiggans. She doing
She on her job, yes, and she ain't gonna let
you probably excel too much, Mayor. Yeah, she's good to
have on the team. You got a team man, it helps.
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Let me say, let me thank her publicly, Yes, sir,
h for at setting all of this up. You know,
but when I heard that you want, I was so happy, ecstatic,
and I believe nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You know when I hear you smile, you know through
this radio it comes out.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
You can hear it.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
You know I can see it, but my audience can
tell there's a smile somewhere there. And you got to
have enthusiasm. I though you probably preached this from you
Sunday to Sunday, from Bible study, the Bible study Wednesday,
the winds, but you know you for anything great to happen,
you gotta have some kind of enthusiasm as you do it.
So I'm I'm hoping for an enthusiastic.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Term for you.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
When is it official when you become actually mayor July
the first, July one? You get it all ratified, certified, true, everything,
just official.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
Come July one, six pm at Hai Leakes City Hall. Yeah.
When is it at six Hall Leacs City Hall at six.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Pm on July one? Okay, July first, Why need you
come out to unpack that place? Yes, sir, justins the wingers.
Give me a friendly, a gentle reminder. Yes, I can
show what you hear the nie. Let me let me
go delicate you mind if we take a phone call
to to yes, sir, let me set this thing up.
I can get some you know, it's your show, doc.
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Let me get these listens on here. Talk to you,
double D. I, come morning on the radio.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Are you there? Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Let me see that kick over double D I. Hello there, Okay, yeah,
you're there. Yeah Jackson, sounds.
Speaker 6 (45:05):
Like you stand bale.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
How you doing serving you will we will skip the
Incholls from now. Talk to uh you talk to the
mayor elect. Yeah, I got something for him.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Jimmy Stokes, brother, brother Jimmy Stokes, how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Good by?
Speaker 4 (45:21):
First of all, congratulations and you're you're representing the Church
of Christ very well. I don't want to get that out.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
You're going to get that out, you know, brother Jackson.
Speaker 7 (45:32):
Yeah, because because I thought that, I thought that you
were going to have both of them in the studio,
and I thought maybe Jimmy Jimmy could baptize doctor Stewart.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Anyways, she's gone, uh yeah, she's.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Now Seriously, she's doing a great job in that area.
You know, I appreciate her, you know that in her
team and uh doctor Stick, agent Stick, very good job,
you know, he wrote, he wrote.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
A song, a very popular song, Adrian Stick.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
But anyway, uh, Mayor Mayor, yes, sir, Mayor.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Of Hornley Stokes, Manor Stokes.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
Please don't please don't respond to this, Please don't respond
to this one. I'm about to say, you know.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
A lot of cities in Desilver County kind.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Of look down on horn Lake. But I appreciate horn
Lake because horn Lake has always worked good with Memphis.
But and I don't know why they looked down the
Horned Lake as the little town way over there. But
horn Lake is doing great things, and I'm sure you're
going to do greater things in that area. Yes, okay,
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yes sir, yes, sir. And it's good to see a
face like yours in that area. I thought i'd never
see it, but whether I am, but keep up the
good work, and I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I couldn't gratulate you, all right, thank you, thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Mister Jackson is right, all right, thank you Jackson listening
rights to the subject space Mayor elect Stokes staying let
him know I could not vote for him, but I
got two sisters and other family members in horn Lake
that did vote for him. He's my brother in Christ.
I worship at quinch Road Church of Christ, Brother the
Comus Rogers minister.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
You know that brother Kim Folks. So that is that's
from Canary Irby. Yeah, yeah, because I guess Canary probably
lives in Memphis, I guess. But she has two sisters
and other family members a horn Lake.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
Thank you, thank you. They got you in there.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
That's out standing.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's good to hear that you got a lot of
support even in Memphis. You know, you know a lot
of Memphians know you. You know a lot of white
Haven Tigers. You know, listen to the radio show, a
lot of fairly elementary white Haven Elementary.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
And haven View, Yes, Junior High, Havenvy Middle, all of that.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
So you're your homeboy actually uh and and you're the
angel of the house at your church. And you've got
support first ladies with you all the way through. Man,
just man, wish you nothing but the best man as
you consider uh well, actually you can when you consider
to be run from mayor and you got it done.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
No one hates a job well done. So what you
got to do is go in there with sleeves already
rolled up. Shirt, you know, down a little bit of you.
You look at my clean shop over.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
There on that side. Oh, yes, so it was we
looked like twins. Yeah. Great, y'all got great suits on,
big brother.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Thanks for the gott you got. You play football, didn't you? Yes, sir,
I know that about it? Long yeah them days go
back to day. I got a friend number for your
offensive line, and what what was your position?
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Running back, cornerback, running back, quarterback, cornerback, cornerback, corner back. Okay,
you run the fifteen and sixty five? I run, brother,
run bro Man. Let me thank you so much. Man,
anything else you'd like to do, I kind of say,
before you go to your next place responsibility on.
Speaker 9 (49:02):
The radio, man, just thank you to all the volunteers.
It was amazing that you new ax the question earlier.
But that was the difference this time. A lot of
people in Hornlake volunteers. God sent me three young men
what's the name we call them Jay three, Johnny Little, Third, Victor.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
And Eli Man.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
These young men went out there with me every day
knocking on doors. These twenty year olds, man, and they
now I know what I'm talking about running for office
one day so after.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
I got a chance to mentor it.
Speaker 9 (49:32):
And we're not talking about just one African American, two
African Americans, one Caucasian American. And guess what, these young
men love hanging out with Missus Stokes every day. So
I want to thank all these volunteers. All the people
made phone calls, they were owning. My wife managing them.
Nie said, manage them. Zachariah managed them. Even my daughter
Zaria ten years old, going on the campaign tree or
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trying to get some money out of there.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
So we enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (49:57):
We had fun doing it, That's what we're talking about.
It didn't feel like we're We went out twice a day.
Thank you all so much, knocking on every door, meeting
every person with a smile.
Speaker 4 (50:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
That's what it takes a team, man, It takes a team, doc,
So you you obviously have a great team. First, Lady Aequila,
thank you so much for coming through and supporting your
husband and just coming to w I be on the road.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah you you you a Memphian, right to no, I'm
from Oxford. Come on, it's a count of.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
What the natives say, and folks who don't know who
just come through, saylia do but y'all get y'all quickly,
get them told.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Yeah, that's my country girl.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
For give me a country I know that country girl, man, Yeah,
a country girl.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
First, lady, thank you for coming by, supporting your husband
and coming to w D I A man, I appreciate you,
all right, yeah, and uh, I know you got a
good father Father's Day gift form and all that good stuff.
Right and the church, she said, and she smiling, he is,
thank you for coming, man, glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Congratulations, man, congratulations. I'm trying to swing by the courthouse
July one, six pm. Right, Yes, sir Bill, we're gonna
have to show up.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Come on through, everybody, come to well, we'll let we
fill up the lobby, he say, where y'all gotta leave
out from. Wow, he's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
This is the Stan Belle Morning Show weekdates from six
to ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis
ten seventy wd I A
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I A oh yeah, I did hear a legal id y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Did bump rush the studio? I'm out of breath again.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
First I ran over there to Shery MCA congratulated that.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I came back out in the green room.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm looking at doctor Gina Stuart, so let me let
me see where what is there?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, w I listens, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
A m ten seventy w D, I A Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Let's call it legalized doctor Stuart. Right, you know how y'all? Yeah,
you know yeah, that's how you saying back to the
day just used to work there. That's all ready out
that you say that like that, that's the all readson
out said with respect to mister Gilliam.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean when he bought this station, it was a
major thing radio station. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, he got just coing together and he said, look,
I want to do this five people.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, and it's maintained he has.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can you say those call letters real quickly like you
just did voice addiction and the other ones, so we
can make sure I can keep my job.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Am ten seventy w d. I ool say it again again.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I like that you said it better than me. She
could do it again. I articulate that this thing to
Am ten seventy w d.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I A.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh, she didn't need no notes. I tell Nick.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The boy said, I got this, So I'm talking about you.
Don't open this thing on fire. Listens in the studio
with me now, the one and only. I'd like to
put a good intro this thing, the.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
One and only.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna keep it.
And they say keep it simple, keep it you know,
keep it real, keep it succinct. Uh, Doctor Jenny Steward,
good morning, good morning. Look, come on up to the
mica a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know I'm better than going up to the morning
you ain't you know? Stranger to you right about.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
This?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You are right, that's right, Gena. I see a Stewart's
in the building. I was looking for the sorority pair
of nagure, but I saw I don't have any read
on today, just the cross off.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Read in the room when I walked in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Somebody, don't keep it looking, keep a look read in
the room on purpose.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You see the colors of the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So let me open this way.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Two most important words in the language, thank you, and
the most important word is we least important. I right.
So at least thirty minutes or so, maybe twenty one,
it's going to be the doctor Gina. I see a
Stewart show, okay, featuring Staying Bill.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Okay, you know I'm a pushing more power than right.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm a decrease so that I can. Okay, you read
the fry. You know I went. I went to Sunday
School school. That's about it. With St.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
John Grahamy the six fort advance, you know somebody.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, you know, my grandparents came out of Saint John.
My mother came out of Saint John. In fact, I
have a cousin that goes to Saint John. Betty Smith, yeah,
Betty Boys and the Gossips, the gossips, you know the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Absolutely, yeah, George Gossip.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, chairman of the deacon board, that's right, Superintendent, Yeah, yeah,
I know them gossips folks.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, wow, yeah, said I.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Knew you had a six forty advanced avenue connection somewhere.
I knew when all South falkon the mound there.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, I have some pastry with Saint John. I have
other relatives over there to the rankings. Yeah yeah, those are.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
My cousins over there off Acacia. Yeah a Lisa Rankin
and yeah Lisa, you show got some history. Yeahlah, And
this is all right. So I invited you to come
and be with us because number one, you're real, Thank you.
(04:17):
Number two people love you, glory to God. And number
three you love and lost.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I do love Jesus.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I love.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You heard every day. I love the Lord. Come on
every day. Build everybody, government, every government. Listen. Linda wants
to hitting you up. I'm telling you, I know that
your line is lightened up.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Louis.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I was trying to think of my other cousin, you know,
absolutely sorry interrupted nor to name.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Lewis.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, turning then it does senior. Yeah that's some
of that same John stuff people.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Matter of fact, spaking of doctor Stewart, he was just
he had a pool name after him after him at
in Rice.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Because the O. C. B. Lewis Junior Aquatic Center isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, that's significant. That's that's strong right there, O Sa
lewis my family. Yeah, you got some connection in this thing. Connection. Well,
you know what, I'm going to take a pause. That
that was an opening amount of log take a part.
I don't mean to rise. I'm a poet and don't
know it. I see my Woodale crew over there. We're
gonna where your fans are fans about the practicing. We're
(05:44):
gonna talk about that we got I think you have
a got you you deserve a celebration. Well, thank you,
you can you deserve a c Yeah. Things he's done
allowed you to be up there. I said thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Thirty Yeah, thirty years, thirty years.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It is a wonder since ninety five is nineteen ninety
you were elected to March fourth, nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You remember that day though, I remember that day like
it was just today. We and here we are, thirty
years later. We're gonna talk about the celebration that is
deserving of one Gina Steward and we're glad to have you,
have you in the studio.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm gonna move on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm gonna play a few bills so I can get
this check on the fifteenth. I was looking for it
last night in the portal in the what they call
it when they're having is in the portal when yeah,
it's comments, how I say loading, loading, So I'm gonna
pay the commercial you.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Know how they go live. Those of you are just
tune in.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We're talking to the one and only doctor gene My
Sea Stewart Singior pastor. I said, sing, you sing your pastor,
Christ Missionary Baptist Church. Let me pay, let me do
this and we'll come right back in there. Everybody who
were having fun in the radio station.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I started to put doctor Jenni Stewart back here. She
can work the boys, she can work the mic. She
she know the lingo. You worked that boy, I told you,
like ride the bike. You've done it before, you can
do it again, just like God you did it before,
do it again.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
He'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hello, Hello, somebody, it's just a secular station of this. Yeah,
quote descriptions and ms. All of life is sacred. All
of life is sacred. Come on, come on teach to Yeah,
all of life is sacred.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So even when you're doing secular work, you can do
it as an offering to God.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Wow. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That was the first lesson they taught us in seminary,
that we don't live this bifurcated existence. That there is
no distinction between the sacred and the secular, that all
of life is sacred, and so we integrate.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We live.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
An integrated life means that even though you're working for
a secular radio station, when you do your job, because
you're a man of God and a man of faith,
it can be an offering to God. So you may
work in a secular environment, but as a Christian, as
a believer, what you do still becomes an offering.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's good, convicted God, Mama, thank you. Now you have
to make the choice to make it an offering. Of course,
you have to make the choice to make it an offer.
It becomes an offering as you make your offering to God.
So I can stay right here for a little longer.
Another word, when I hit out of what you just say.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You have an opportunity, really to make this an offering
to God in a different way, because there's a population
that will hear you. They wouldn't necessarily come through a
church door. So this is your opportunity to express your faith.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So, in other words, in Layman's turn. No matter what
a man, no matter what, no matter what a no matter,
it matters not.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Whatever your context, whether you are.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Secular space.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
If you embrace this idea, this this philosophy, this ideology
that all of life is sacred, it becomes opportunity for
it to be transformed into sacred space. Because a lot
of that has to do with how you navigate and
manage the influence that you have. So you don't just
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talk about faith on Sunday. You talk about faith when
you're on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, it doesn't matter what a man does. It determines
whether his work is sacred. To second is why he
does it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Well, it does matter what you do, but it's also
how you do it and why you do it and
the motive behind which because you can be it can
remember I said, it can be an opportunity. There's no
distinction between the sacred and secular. But what I do
can become an offering to God in the way that
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I do my job. For example, I used to be
the directive admissions at Shelby State Community College before I
started pastoring. That was ministry for me because even though
I wasn't you know, standing behind a poolpit or anything.
Ministry became. My opportunity for ministry was in helping students,
removing barriers, helping to remove barriers, advocating for equality even
(10:37):
in policy when it relates when as it related to
some of the ways that some of the opportunities that
I saw to be more equitable towards students. I used
to be not only the director of admissions but also
the director of Allied Health Admissions. So there were things
that excuse me that I recommended because of what I
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thought would help to improve and level the play and feel.
So ministry is not always big m In other words,
if people think sometimes that the only folks that are
in ministry are people that wear the clerical garb and
who have collars around there, Uh, wear collars around their neck,
or they're standing behind a pulpit. But as my mentor,
(11:19):
Shirley Prince used to used to advocate, we're all ministers
in some way because we all servants, and everybody is
not going to be in a pool pit, but wherever
you stand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's what she used to say, that, Hey, that's right, so.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
This is your pool pit, this is your pul pit,
right this sound I'm about to shout out this.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Over there.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't have a feeling that you know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Can I go delicate to a phone line, Doctor Stewart head,
you don't mind, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The I come on you in the radio. Who's our
first caller? Yeah? You in the air. I'm saying, yeah,
go on, thank you for calling. It sounds like Roby.
I'm not sure it is.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I am happy, glad to be able to call in
this radio station and to express my complete joy, appreciation,
and honor for Reverend doctor, Sister Lady Pastor Jena Stewart.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
She has been a blessing in my life and in
the lives of my family members.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Staying two weeks ago Tuesday, on.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
The twenty seventh, she preached my baby sister sim Yes
and mar.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
And when I called her to ask her the JEWI
because I've.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Told the folks, says, well, we won't ended up playing.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Something one did Robie all got one demand. Jenus threw
a preachers as sooner I don't pay in July.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
And she arranged us to have it at.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Six o'clock at night, so more than members of the
art community to come and be there. That was her idea,
not Roby's, not our family her idea, so her extended
family from the arts community could be there.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
And we had their homegoing service. But saying I want
to say this in the community, this woman is a
real pastor. When law and that's mother, we have little mothers.
When her mother was sick and was about to die,
this woman was. This pastor was at her house twelve thirty.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That night, the night before she died, and her last
words was I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
She was there.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I love this woman, man, I tell the world.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
And for those of you guys who think that women
can't begret your food, tell me things about you.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
You never heard Prince, You never heard Jena Stewart that
I know two things about you. If you believe that
I know.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Two things about you, you never heard Shirley Prince.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You never heard you.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Sure, I love you, sister lady. A blessing in my
life and in the lives of my family.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you man.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Thank you God, bless yes you prayer.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Thank God.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Uh yeah, that's great, that's great. Kind of a yeah
right there, I didn't know you officiated.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
That her home going Yeah, Laurenette was a member, probably
close to I would say maybe twenty plus years. I
met Laurinette when I was narrating for the Angelic Voices
of Faith, and she joined our church and then she relocated. Yeah, Billy, Yeah, actually,
and I need to give credit where credit is due.
(14:26):
It was really Billy who recommended that we have that
service at night. He was sensitive to that idea of
having that service at night, and I just recommended it
to Robie, and Robie consented for us to have that
service in the evening.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well, his family grateful, Yeah, Roby's family, William service.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Laarenette was a great, really gifted singer, actress, writer, producer,
all of that tremmbous loss. Yeah, yeah, but her legacy,
her legacy lives on. No, I'm sure they're very grateful
you officiating that. And I've been at several that you
have homegoing celebrations that you officiated. And I'm telling you,
(15:08):
I remember one you you pulled out the Facebook fans.
You remember that, I'm on the hall.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You out have better memories than I. You said, this
is what they said. You let the people do the U.
Look you said, I'm pulling up on Facebook right now.
And all these folks saying the type of person she
was facebook, you doing like this, you should do it
like that. So and so said this, and then after
that more teaches you make you said, I gotta say
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much motive.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Well you know what they say, you live your ul
Yeah that's what they say. Yeah, yeah that's today you
live well you die. Well see that I said, look
at store, you up that door, praise the Lord.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I like that, dude. And see that's why I like you.
You distinct. It's unique, you real you.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You keep it right what people talk about, making it
plain and still in the book. Yeah, as you tag
you with. All right, you gotta stay in there because.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I said, at least have a slither. That's what makes
it a sermon.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That sliver. Just need theology, just a little bit of that.
Uh that that bust to see. Just you know, we're
speaking with the senior pastor of Christmisionary Baptist Church, the
one and only doctor Gina Marcia Stewart. She is celebrating
thirty years as pastor the Angel of the House. Yeah yeah,
(16:39):
and and it deserves a celebration. I just wanted to
get I just wanted to get her voice on the air.
I wanted her to come see me. I didn't want
to do a phone interview. I didn't want to I
don't like to.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Do a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I want them to come see about me. Give me
them Supreme Sean, come come seeing the eyes on you.
I really wanted to lay hands on me. But that's
why I told her come up.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But I'm just right back. We take sure, break me
right back us to my throw the lady.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Let me tell the the reverend, doctor Ginam, I see
a steward, energetic, faithful, loving visionary preacher, a jump professor, teacher,
community advocate.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
You went to.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Google, You went to Google Amazon. I showed you. That
means you win. There in the book the work I've
done speak for it does. It's little we. There's a
lot of adjectives right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
There, doctor Ginam, I see a steward, energetic, faithful, loving
visionary preacher, ad jump professor, teacher, former d J.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I said, that's right. Did you did you know I
used to.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Be a D I didn't know that's one of those,
but I kind of heard her the breaker. Yeah, he says,
tell somebody one thing they wouldn't know about you.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I was a DJ. Wow. Yeah, I went station on,
I got.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
I want you to pay the bill, work for you
for six years, yeah, yeah, six years on the air,
six years yeah yeah, across across the way when they had.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
This st Yeah that was back when you know, you
had cartridges and turntables.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The clock yeah back announced yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They sliced up like a pile of clocks in this
little right over the board.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I learned I learned the length of the songs. Yeah yeah,
I said, I can go right into the restroom. That
song is seven minutes and three seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Somebody. That sounded like Stairway to Heaven, o J. But
you get back to along right there, you come back.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No there, Cole, he's prepared me seven minutes and fourteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, that's yeah. That was where they're playing gospel. Right,
that's right, you know seven minutes and how many long
seven minutes fore you show was at DJ.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah you know that stuff, she said back, announcing back,
announcing back, timing it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's right. How many hours that is that? She's said?
Much radio? Top of an hour? You showed you little
somebody did stre now, but of course that was years ago. Yeah, yeah, Manamo,
that sounds like late eighties, early thirty years ago. I
stopped when I started passing. You got elected pretty much.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, Yeah, it was a lot of time, time consuming,
and yeah, I understand you had one of the long
radio shifts. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Needed to free up saturdays because I knew I would
probably have funerals.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, another thing, take another phone call if you don't mind,
please U let me take it here.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Uh got you here? Got your still on, Doc Stewart?
I do all right? Uh that da good morning? You're
living the radio? Anybody there? Yeah? Good morning? Who am
I speaking with? Taking with lovely lady D? Lady D,
(20:03):
Lady D?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come right up to that phone? Got some audio issues there,
just a little bit. I want a little more clarity,
So don't get it out there for the good doctor.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You know she feeling.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It with j T.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That's the first I ever heard of it. And what happened.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I only somebody that says women shouldn't be pastor And
you know I call you don't think what he should
be doing anything.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Class you're going in and out, but but you think
she should. So your life was a little bit clear
because you're about to say some good stuff here.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
She's she's uh, challenging the mythology that women should not
or the theology that women should not be preachers or
pastors you want. I'm still surprised that people are having
that discussion.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Really, lady, let her talk to you for a little while.
You listen.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, it's interesting that after all these years, people are
still debating of whether or not women should be Well,
you know, there are two streams of thought. There are
people they say that women shouldn't preach, and then there
are people say that the people that say, well, women
can preach, but they can't pastor. And of course, if
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you're looking for a reason to suppress the gifts of women,
there you can find it in the Bible, because Iso
Jesus makes that possible. But the Bible also says that
we slaves should obey obey their masters. There are so
many passages of scripture that, particularly when they're read out
of context or even when they're read literally, lead to
(21:43):
oppressive types of theologies then undergird many of our traditions
in our churches. And so what's interesting to me though,
is that people are still talking about the fact that
women cannot lead that women and this is not just
limit to churches. I mean, this is probably why we
have not been able to move women in other male
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dominated fields because of these kinds of perspectives. But the
real elephant in the room is sexism. It is a
system that induces this notion of inferiority upon women based
on gender, and it's also based on tradition. Many people
don't necessarily, like Robi just said, if you don't think
(22:27):
women can preach, you haven't heard certain women. No, possibly
not because some other person, some authority figure in their
life said to them that women should not preach.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
And then, of course some of it is.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Just tradition, which is tradition and then inherited faith traditions
as well as biblical literalism. You read and just take
a verse out of context and don't read the context
around that verse, it's very easy to draw those kinds
of conclusions. But personally, I say it's too late for
the discussion because after thirty years, you know, at this point,
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I'm kind of like, yeah, I'm kind of like the frog.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
They told this story about the frog.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
They kept jumping up and down because they kept saying,
you're not gonna succeed, You're not gonna do it. And
the frog kept jumping, and they found out the frog
was deaf. That's why frog ignored.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I'm not dead.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
But you learn, you learn to still do the work,
and you have to you have to be clear about
the fact that God has called you to this work.
If I really listened to what people think about what
I should be doing, I wouldn't be sitting here thirty
years later. I would have stopped a long time ago,
even even before I started pastoring, just going into the
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ministry in general.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Uh, the Reverend doctor Jenna M. Stewart, b D.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
A Masters in Education MD as we call it d men,
come on, keep on going, stand d come.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
On a b d for a PhD in Preaching and
sacred rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I have.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
All I have left now is the dissertation, and I'm
going to be writing about the ministry of doctor Claude
Anderson Copeland.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Now, who is Claude And you don't break it back God,
she is U miss yeah doctor.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
She's out of San Antonio, Texas, tremendous preaching, gift and voice,
has been preaching for about close to fifty years.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
She the wife of the.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
No No No This Bishop David Michael Copeland. They passed
her a New Creation Christian Fellowship in San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Text google her.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
The way we describe her in our circles is that
she's deep and oily deep, and yeah, yeah you should.
You should google her and go listen to I will
check that outre yes, do it?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, let's talk about I know a lot of
celebrations are being planned for you in the thirtieth anniverse.
If you will being there at Christ Mission and a
Bapti church, I know. Whatever you do, folks, you have
that charisma, you have the annoyting you have. People love
you so I can I'm almost I'm sure safe to
say whatever they eventure planning this weekend is gonna be
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sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It is sold out. Yeah wow, thank god, thank god.
I get that part. Somebody shot budget.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Somebody shall bills. But people have been very very supportive,
attack generous, generous. Yeah that's good. That's good.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So you got what's going on? Christ Mission of Baptist
Sich why we were wrapping up. You got Vacation Bible School.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah, Vacation Bible School and it starts this coming Monday
from six to eight. The church is located at four
eighty South Parkway East, and it's we don't just have
classes for children, we also have classes for adults. That's
one of the reasons why we do it in the evening,
so that we can have a menu that will cater
to all ages. So it will be Monday through Friday.
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We would love for them to come. And then of course,
you know, we have worship.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Worship.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
The address for the Vacation Bible School and for our
worship experience is for eighty South.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Parkway eighty for eightyway, yeh.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's yeah, that's our new building where we have worshiping
and Vacation Bible School. If they're mailing something to the church,
they should mail it to four ninety four South Parkway East,
and also we stream our services online. I want to
invite them to worship Sunday morning. Bishop Kevin Willis one
of my longtime friends. He and his wife New Life
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up Memphis. He and his wife, doctor Linda Willis, have
We have been friends probably close to thirty or thirty
five years. There's never been a moment in my life
that the Willises have not shown up. And so Bishop
Willis is going to be preaching Sunday. It's Father's Day
so I always try to bring a brother in for
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the men. So he's gonna be Kathy Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
She'll be singing.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
So that.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Oh, how pressure man's trying to do. Lord, he needs
a two time keep.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Me over here. That was I ain't gonna like to
have Louis. I ain't ready yet.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Later I'm about to show up, okay, but good intentions
for effort to give you an effort, Yes, extra effort wins.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I went over to Metropolitan.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That's what they say, Doctor Michael Moore, Hello, somebody doct
Doctor christ would be hearing Moore.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
There you go, come on, Yes, y'all, y'all schooling me up.
And there they just walked in the studio the ball tray,
you know, and my sister were classmates members Katholic.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, y'all learn something new everything.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Oh Marie Isa your head, your head okay, but that's
how far back we gop and you want students?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I did.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I graduated from him Chargers in nineteen seventy eight, telling
my age, Lord.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Gone, ain't looking good? Come on, praise the Lord looking good. Look.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So it's been a plump pleasing pleasure. Thank you so
to have you on the show us that the Great
Rufus Thomas will say. It's been a plump pleasing privilege
and a pleasure have doctor Stewart on here. Shout out
to my guy, Adrian stick one of your one of
your managers. I got what you call one of the courtinators.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Adrian is the director of logistics at our church the
rest of the Adrian really is a logistical genius.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
If you give Adrian something to do, you can go
to bed get He will get it done, get it done.
He will leave no stone unturned. Good morning Adrian, my guy.
Is he on the car? Yeah? He shot me. He
shot me something. He shot an email said you're doing
a good job job Steyn. He's somewhere listening, somewhere listening.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But I really do want to give a shout I
really want to give a shout out to Adrian, because
Adrian has done a lot of the leg work and
coordinating in terms of the hotel and going back and
forth beings acting as a liaison. But also my sister
and my god brother, Maria Stewart and will Famua of
the chairpersons and the steering ministry who have all worked
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so hard and the team leads. Uh many hands make
work light and it makes work easier. So I want
to thank all of them because they are the ones
that have worked to create the experience that we'll have tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So God bless them. And Bob says, the hand, the
hand of the diligence makes one. Come on. Now, you
know the Bible. I just problem, That's all I know.
So don't We won't ask you to cite the reference.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
We don't want you to be like somewhere I read
in Isaiah and it's really in Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You got it right, though you don't have me for
no backup reference. That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well, let me say thank you the way I'm gonna
end the program the way we started. Too much important words,
thank you, thank you in the language, in my opinion,
thank you most important word. We don't come together do
this work least important. You know, I've been doing this
thing just about as long as you've been. You know,
behind that sacredary, we appreciate you to. Yeah, yeah, we're
gonna turn up, We're gonna we're gonna have a little.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Fun tonight, absolutely because we would be on the dance
for We're.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Gonna we're gonna lecture, slide and look forget the on
the on the ground, and we're gonna planet rocking, and
we're going all of that before.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
We're gonna breaking Beverly And you gotta play something with
a sly stone.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Every day. People.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, and Doc Stewart, thank you for letting me be
myself again.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I get that. Preacher, you got that. I gotta take
a breakway out, thank.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Pastor Stacey Andrews and Deacon sh they accompany me. They
accompanied me today. Yes, you got I have some good people.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I got good people, good people, character, good behavior.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yes, the Bibles members and good people.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
The Bibles drops, evil company, corrupt.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on the word of God for the people. Listen,
you don t to go. I believe it is. I'm
going on to guess We're gonna take a break. Wanting
to thank the repend.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Doctor Gina Mysel Stewart, lovely on to rog Station and Sean.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
And all the members of Christ Missionary in the household
of fair Christ Missionaire. Yes, Baptist Church.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
People who are courageous enough uh huh to call a
woman talk talk sister. See eleven o'clock Sunday. All right,
be right back, I'm taking a shore break.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We're gonna have the Honorable Jimmy Stokes, Mayor elect of
horn Link, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
First black man as maya be right back can being.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Back to everybody, Thank you so much for being here.
We got a lot of activity going on in the studio.
Good activity, positive activity.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And we're kind of like you know, almost just being
transparent musical chairs. You know, when I get a guest, Uh,
sometimes I'll pass it on through the suite if you will,
and let some of our sister stations have had our
special guest of course, doctor g. Marceilla Stewart as over
now at Hallelujah, and our sister stations of inspiration over
talking to I believe Sherry Mackie over there. And now
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we have the Honorable Jimmy Stokes Mayor elect. Am I
saying it right, Mayor elect horn Lake, Mississippi. Yes, sir,
am I crooked letter, crooked letter, hum back, hump back
am I in the yes.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I said, come on up to the microphone, Jimmy, how
does it sound? How does it feel?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Has it kicked in yet?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
You on?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's still unreal?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Uh you know, of course I was running the run,
but uh, you know, for my family and I are
still like, hey, they would just do that, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And then it's we have a humble spirit. You know.
Everybody the church called me pastor, mayor.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
You got some guys to the neighborhoods a little comed
jim and the neighborhood mayor, and we were all like.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Hey, I'm still Jimmy, you know, still little talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Me about man. First of all, thank you for being here. Man,
talk to me about I'm gonna get right to it. Man,
talk about me. Talk to me about the campaign trail?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
How was it?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
That?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Was it difficult? But I know it's tedious. You knocked
on doors, you have a lot of supporters. Uh, missus
Stokes right there by your by your side. I mean,
how does can you chronicle it? Because at first you
were were you a commissioner.
Speaker 9 (34:01):
Commissioner War five Planning commission get sir, yeah, So what
got into your spirit to say, you know what I want,
for lack of a better expression, go a little bit higher,
but I want to be the mayor. Well twenty seventeen,
alder Woman and Seanna Johnson, who's our first African American
Alderman made me her appointed Planning Commission of War five.
From that point on, I began to serve learn what
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it takes when it comes to working out of side
the Planning Department as a commissioner board that make recommendations
to the Alderman board.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And doing that, I realized that, you know, I worked
good in politics. You know I didn't like politics, which
you were not a fish out of water. Yeah, this
thing kind of uh you know, it's becoming of you.
And so you got rathering up some folks and saying,
you know what, I'm run.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I received a call, but I did.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
I didn't meet with Alan Latimer, the mayor at one time,
and uh and I was just sitting there in the
office and I said, you know what, God can, God,
I think.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
God got He's showing me something. You know, Uh, we can.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
I can do it too, right, I can lead people.
I'm already leading people. I already serve people. So there's
nothing to transition into serving people from a government perspective. Right,
So I decided to run for office in twenty twenty one.
Got a call from the Soto kind of Democratic party chair.
And it's amazing. Like a few years before that, I
told my church, I think God called me to run
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from here Horn Lake, and uh, and I saw I
see myself leading people because I see where I'm seeing
some of my head. When I drive through Horn Lake,
I see something that we could be better than this.
Right and so my wife will tell you every time
I ride down good Man Road. Uh, some sore thumb,
sore thumbs that I see. I'm like, man, while we
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got this right here? Why this ragging the buildings? Says
sitting here, and I can't, I really can't stand there
like well, I wanted somebody to do something about it.
But anyway, so you talked about you asked me about
the campaign trail. So in twenty twenty one we laid
the foundation if we went and I knew the city
didn't know me that a lot of them don't pay
attention to politics.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I'm a commissioner.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
Of course, nobody comes to meet and you might have
three people sitting in the meeting, in the audience and
they have a case. But we knocked on doors. I
think Bill ignorant, our god rich, his soul. He ran
with me. He was running for all them at large.
We knocked on about three thousand doors, you know, by
ourselves and mister Covid. So we introduced ourselves to the city.
So God was laying the platform for me to run
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in twenty twenty five. This time, now only did we
knock on doors, God starts sending you know.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
At first, I was like, man, Bill Ignor died. You know,
it's my partner. I'm gonna do this now. God said, look,
use your skill set, use your skill set while you're
on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yes, I'm still I'm still grieving my partner.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, yeah, knocking on doors and yeah hell our father, yes, yes,
so my wife she let me my wife Alquila, who's
here with us today. She let me know agent, don't
put the mic on the first lady, come on, he said,
aequila like that a quilla and the beat tyler perr.
Everybody got it, Like the lady can smell real good.
You spelled pretty good at first, lady, you spelled pretty good.
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You got the name pression.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
First lady. Good to have you in here, Thank you,
good to be here. What's so, what's the name of
your church?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Northeast Side Church of Christ and North Church of Christ
and bartlet Tennessey.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yes, good morning, Jackson, Yeah you Church of Christ. He
loves it.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Uh so you and we said Bartlet Bartlet Tennis. Oh wow,
so that brings me this. So you got Memphis roots?
You you from Memphis, Yes, sir, hold on, let's let's
chronicle this thing again. Where you go to elementary? I
went to fairly elementary and Whiteaven Elementary. Okay, fairly elementary,
white even elementary. Then what junior High? I say, Junior High?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
You?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I said, Mili, you're like, hold up, hey, junior high. Yes, sir,
missus Gentry.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
The honorable doctor, honorable doctor, City Gentry principal. And then
from Haven View Junior High. You went the Haven High School. Okay, house,
I'm trying to think about d y'all prom back then
in nineteen nine, eight ninety eight. You know miss Helen
Jones Jones. Yeah, yes, she was my neighbor across the street.
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Well she is my neighbor really Edward Avenue nor Remember
she would always she talked what is cosmetology or something like, yes, sir,
and she's also singior sponsor. Good morning Helen Jones. Yeah,
one of your one of your sons up in the studio. Yes,
you'd be proud of them.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Man, that's the small world White Haven.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
And that's probably when Vincent Hunter, doctor Van Hunter. He
was probably just on facult He wasn't the principal at
the at the time when you were there, it was
a football coach, football coach. He was the assistant coach
when I first came in under coach Collins h.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Collins. He transitioned into head coach. I think my senior year. Wow, yes,
and then yeah yeah, and Hunter became principal. What was
it not was it nine eight?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
No, No, that was it was.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It was probably during the time my brother, Corpus Stokes,
attorney to the Queen Stokes. My sister was four or
something year early two thousands, like they had car beackers,
I believe. Oh, mister Beckers, James sure was.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
He sure was.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, it was later I came on, Yeah, I forgot, Yeah, yeah,
James Backers, Yeah he sure was. So so I got folks,
you knowing that you are. You're not a robot, You're
a Memphian. You you know this, you know Memphis and
and now you know horn Lake. So I'm gonna ask first, lady,
right quick, come on back to the mike. You'ren't gonna
let let job that ease. You knew your husband's gonna
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win did you you just felt it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I felt like he was gonna win.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You nervous about that thing, but you everyone counts right,
and then you will open up the next day the paper,
the headline reads, Stokes stumps the competition.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
That president.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
They're gonna print them for all to see.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Man, you gotta well, sister, you got an amazing husband,
obviously pastor of the church, and now he's done. He's
been a commissioner. They call it aldermen, you know. Uh
and horn Lincks. Is that where you are reside now?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, I'm county Yeah, yeah, that about fourteen years. So
what's the first thing you gotta do? Man? What you
gotta ge accomplished?
Speaker 6 (40:15):
What?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
What's your vision?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What's your you know what You're gonna roll up your
sleeves in the ground, and what's the first thing on
your mind?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Priority right now?
Speaker 9 (40:22):
Comfort the staff? Uh at city Hall. It's a culture shock.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:27):
You got to think about them being the first African
American mayor. There may be some things that even security
wise police haven't thought about. Number One, people may think
that I'm gonna come into a firing party, and I
to make it clear that's not how things operate in
the transition. You think you get to know people. Thank
you coming and get to know people. You get people
a fair chance, uh to serve in the administration. So
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right now, letting them know it's gonna be a different environment.
It's not gonna be a mayor. It's a little bit
officish from its people. But hey, man, I'm coming in
and make your day bright. I want you to go
home and after enjoying work, and I want you so
stressed being up here that you can't go home and function.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah right, we're gonna get the job done. Job, but
we were gonna do it right.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
So but then also get get into the community to
make sure the community know, especially in the areas where
they haven't had a lot of support from the city,
that hey, you got to make it.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I got your back. We can't turn everything around in
three to four years when you're thirty.
Speaker 9 (41:17):
Years thirty forty years behind in infrastructure and the economy.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
But guess what we're gonna You're gonna see a U turn.
We gotta make a you turn, gotta make a new turn,
and you're the man to do it. Let me take
a break right quick. We're talking with a Mayor elect
of horn Lake, Mississippi, the one and only, the Honorable
Jimmy Starts and the first lady I think so much
for coming back everybody. When the waning moments of the
Standville Morning Show, a lot of excitement in the studios
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here one thousand oaks. Man, you know where I loving
Friday's roll around. I know a lot of you like to,
you know, do the conversation over conversation and you get
it now. You know, every Friday we got somebody special on.
That's why we call it Stands Special People. Spotlight had
the Reverend doctor Ginam. I see us Steward on early
in the first half hour. If you will, uh, you know,
you get dot Stewart on you you tend to go
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over time, you know what I mean. It's like the preachers.
I'm and I'm closing, and I'm closing, but uh, you know,
but what time will spend? And now we've got the
Honorable jim Is Stouts, Mayor Elect horned Lake, Mississippi in
the building. And make no bones about it. Uh, from
what I've seen and read and the bio and everything,
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you're the man for the job. And even just hearing
your enthusiasm on these air waves. Lets me know that
you you ready to go to work, yes, sir, and
your mission and then this out there. I mean you
said earlier there's something about the infrastructure, and you're looking
at the streets and you're looking at some other things
that you want to take care of you but you
want to keep the relationship with those employees, you know, intact,
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and those are your workers, you know intact.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I like that man, so as Mayor.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Uh, that's that's some big shoes, right, but your shoes,
your feet just got bigger and you can feel them.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Dock. So you're feeling good this morning?
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (42:59):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Have you really honestly had a chance to ex al
I think we did Sunday pre Sunday morning. You're looking
at first lady. Now, yeah, I guess we calm down
just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
But it's if I know, who's the lady that contacted
me to come up here, for you to get up here,
Miss Wiggins, Nisa something like that, mister Wiggans. She doing
She on her job, yes, and she ain't gonna let
you probably excel too much, Mayor. Yeah, she's good to
have on the team. You got a team man, it helps.
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Let me say, let me thank her publicly, Yes, sir,
h for at setting all of this up. You know,
but when I heard that you want, I was so happy, ecstatic,
and I believe nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You know when I hear you smile, you know through
this radio it comes out.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
You can hear it.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
You know I can see it, but my audience can
tell there's a smile somewhere there. And you got to
have enthusiasm. I though you probably preached this from you
Sunday to Sunday, from Bible study, the Bible study Wednesday,
the winds, but you know you for anything great to happen,
you gotta have some kind of enthusiasm as you do it.
So I'm I'm hoping for an enthusiastic.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Term for you.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
When is it official when you become actually mayor July
the first, July one? You get it all ratified, certified, true, everything,
just official.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
Come July one, six pm at Hai Leakes City Hall. Yeah.
When is it at six Hall Leacs City Hall at six.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Pm on July one? Okay, July first, Why need you
come out to unpack that place? Yes, sir, justins the wingers.
Give me a friendly, a gentle reminder. Yes, I can
show what you hear the nie. Let me let me
go delicate you mind if we take a phone call
to to yes, sir, let me set this thing up.
I can get some you know, it's your show, doc.
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Let me get these listens on here. Talk to you,
double D. I, come morning on the radio.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Are you there? Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Let me see that kick over double D I. Hello there, Okay, yeah,
you're there. Yeah Jackson, sounds.
Speaker 6 (45:05):
Like you stand bale.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
How you doing serving you will we will skip the
Incholls from now. Talk to uh you talk to the
mayor elect. Yeah, I got something for him.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Jimmy Stokes, brother, brother Jimmy Stokes, how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Good by?
Speaker 4 (45:21):
First of all, congratulations and you're you're representing the Church
of Christ very well. I don't want to get that out.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
You're going to get that out, you know, brother Jackson.
Speaker 7 (45:32):
Yeah, because because I thought that, I thought that you
were going to have both of them in the studio,
and I thought maybe Jimmy Jimmy could baptize doctor Stewart.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Anyways, she's gone, uh yeah, she's.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Now Seriously, she's doing a great job in that area.
You know, I appreciate her, you know that in her
team and uh doctor Stick, agent Stick, very good job,
you know, he wrote, he wrote.
Speaker 6 (46:02):
A song, a very popular song, Adrian Stick.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
But anyway, uh, Mayor Mayor, yes, sir, Mayor.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Of Hornley Stokes, Manor Stokes.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
Please don't please don't respond to this, Please don't respond
to this one. I'm about to say, you know.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
A lot of cities in Desilver County kind.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Of look down on horn Lake. But I appreciate horn
Lake because horn Lake has always worked good with Memphis.
But and I don't know why they looked down the
Horned Lake as the little town way over there. But
horn Lake is doing great things, and I'm sure you're
going to do greater things in that area. Yes, okay,
(46:45):
yes sir, yes, sir. And it's good to see a
face like yours in that area. I thought i'd never
see it, but whether I am, but keep up the
good work, and I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I couldn't gratulate you, all right, thank you, thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Mister Jackson is right, all right, thank you Jackson listening
rights to the subject space Mayor elect Stokes staying let
him know I could not vote for him, but I
got two sisters and other family members in horn Lake
that did vote for him. He's my brother in Christ.
I worship at quinch Road Church of Christ, Brother the
Comus Rogers minister.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
You know that brother Kim Folks. So that is that's
from Canary Irby. Yeah, yeah, because I guess Canary probably
lives in Memphis, I guess. But she has two sisters
and other family members a horn Lake.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
Thank you, thank you. They got you in there.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
That's out standing.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
It's good to hear that you got a lot of
support even in Memphis. You know, you know a lot
of Memphians know you. You know a lot of white
Haven Tigers. You know, listen to the radio show, a
lot of fairly elementary white Haven Elementary.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
And haven View, Yes, Junior High, Havenvy Middle, all of that.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
So you're your homeboy actually uh and and you're the
angel of the house at your church. And you've got
support first ladies with you all the way through. Man,
just man, wish you nothing but the best man as
you consider uh well, actually you can when you consider
to be run from mayor and you got it done.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
No one hates a job well done. So what you
got to do is go in there with sleeves already
rolled up. Shirt, you know, down a little bit of you.
You look at my clean shop over.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
There on that side. Oh, yes, so it was we
looked like twins. Yeah. Great, y'all got great suits on,
big brother.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Thanks for the gott you got. You play football, didn't you? Yes, sir,
I know that about it? Long yeah them days go
back to day. I got a friend number for your
offensive line, and what what was your position?
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Running back, cornerback, running back, quarterback, cornerback, cornerback, corner back. Okay,
you run the fifteen and sixty five? I run, brother,
run bro Man. Let me thank you so much. Man,
anything else you'd like to do, I kind of say,
before you go to your next place responsibility on.
Speaker 9 (49:02):
The radio, man, just thank you to all the volunteers.
It was amazing that you new ax the question earlier.
But that was the difference this time. A lot of
people in Hornlake volunteers. God sent me three young men
what's the name we call them Jay three, Johnny Little, Third, Victor.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
And Eli Man.
Speaker 9 (49:22):
These young men went out there with me every day
knocking on doors. These twenty year olds, man, and they
now I know what I'm talking about running for office
one day so after.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
I got a chance to mentor it.
Speaker 9 (49:32):
And we're not talking about just one African American, two
African Americans, one Caucasian American. And guess what, these young
men love hanging out with Missus Stokes every day. So
I want to thank all these volunteers. All the people
made phone calls, they were owning. My wife managing them.
Nie said, manage them. Zachariah managed them. Even my daughter
Zaria ten years old, going on the campaign tree or
(49:53):
trying to get some money out of there.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
So we enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (49:57):
We had fun doing it, That's what we're talking about.
It didn't feel like we're We went out twice a day.
Thank you all so much, knocking on every door, meeting
every person with a smile.
Speaker 4 (50:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
That's what it takes a team, man, It takes a team, doc,
So you you obviously have a great team. First, Lady Aequila,
thank you so much for coming through and supporting your
husband and just coming to w I be on the road.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah you you you a Memphian, right to no, I'm
from Oxford. Come on, it's a count of.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
What the natives say, and folks who don't know who
just come through, saylia do but y'all get y'all quickly,
get them told.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Yeah, that's my country girl.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
For give me a country I know that country girl, man, Yeah,
a country girl.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
First, lady, thank you for coming by, supporting your husband
and coming to w D I A man, I appreciate you,
all right, yeah, and uh, I know you got a
good father Father's Day gift form and all that good stuff.
Right and the church, she said, and she smiling, he is,
thank you for coming, man, glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Congratulations, man, congratulations. I'm trying to swing by the courthouse
July one, six pm. Right, Yes, sir Bill, we're gonna
have to show up.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Come on through, everybody, come to well, we'll let we
fill up the lobby, he say, where y'all gotta leave
out from. Wow, he's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
This is the Stan Belle Morning Show weekdates from six
to ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis
ten seventy wd I A
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