Proclamation No. 2024-15 Pastor Manuel Appreciation Day
Proclamation No. 2024-15D
WHEREAS Pastor Tommy L. Manuel was a founding member of Phi Beta Sigma, a social service fraternity on the campus of Sam Houston State University. The fraternity has provided many service
projects to the Huntsville community from toy drives, visiting nursing homes, mentoring, and tutoring; and
WHEREAS Pastor Tommy L. Manuel established and organized a East End Community cleanup in conjunction with former Mayor Andy Braunger and the city of Huntsville’s Solid Waste Department;
and
WHEREAS Pastor Tommy L. Manuel has pastored three churches over his forty years of service. Central Baptist, First Missionary Baptist and Ministry of Light Baptist, all of them in the
Huntsville community. Through Pastor Manuel’s preaching and teaching Godly principles, lives have been changed for the better. Better lives lead to a better community; and
WHEREAS Pastor Tommy L. Manuel led his church and church members to purchase a building and renovate it for their place of worship; and
WHEREAS Pastor Tommy L. Manuel, is celebrated for his 40 years of ministry and service to the Huntsville Community
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell Humphrey, Mayor of Huntsville Texas,
DO HEREBY PROCLAIM May 18, 2024, as
Pastor Manuel Appreciation Day