Yousef Jackson

And I want to ask for the health and success of all the people in this room and especially honorees, the trailblazers and pathfinders all across this city who roll up their sleeves every day to do the often thankless and unsexy work of fire tending from each of their own corners to build the beloved community everywhere.

Now, knowing that we have some incredible speakers this morning,

I thought we could all offer the benediction this morning through song.

And so I want to bring you a song I'm guessing you haven't heard before.

But when I go into a black church that I've never been to before, I can tell you within 15 seconds I'm up on my feet singing some song I've never heard before.

So I want to invite you to please rise.

and to join me in tapping into our resilience, our power, and our purpose this morning.

You can bring those words up on the screen and join me in a little snap here, if you would.

I thank you.

It sounds like this.

All right.

We rise.

Try that, please.

We rise.

All right, here's how it goes.

We rise, humbly hearted, rise, won't be divided, rise, with spirit to guide us, rise.

Next slide.

In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here.

In hope, in prayer, we're right here.

In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here.