CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION providing an honorary designation of South Jackson Street between 28th Avenue South and 29th Avenue South as "Dr. RL Manaway, Sr. Way."
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WHEREAS, Reverend Dr. Robert L. Manaway, Sr. is the Senior Pastor of Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Seattle, Washington, where he has faithfully served for over four decades; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Manaway began his pastoral ministry at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Ellisville, Mississippi, before accepting the call to Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church (MBC) in 1983, since which time, under his visionary leadership, Tabernacle has grown from 125 members to a thriving congregation of more than 1,700, launching men and women into ministry across the nation; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Manaway has had a significant community impact through is founding of Manaway Evangelistic Ministries (MEM) and Tabernacle MBC by founding in April of 1987 an initiative called "Daily Bread," a three-day-a-week unhoused feeding program serving the Central District of Seattle and Pioneer Square; and
WHEREAS, through MEM, Dolly Austin was founded in November 1991 as a transitional housing project for homeless young adults that now serves women with children and single adults, and went on to establish "Samuel House," a staffed residential home in South King County that serves as a Behavioral Rehabilitation Facility for at-risk teenage boys, ages 12-17; and
WHEREAS, in 2001, Pastor Manaway established the "Bridge Project," a collaborative initiative with ULMS (Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle), providing reentry and post-treatment transitional housing for men and women at two separate locations; and
WHEREAS, the Pastor has partnered with other organizations and individual to launch services, such as a rehabilitation home for women in addiction recovery and homelessness and a licensed chemical dependency program, offering outpatient and intensive outpatient, and DUI programs; a...
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