(Jan. 27 2021 – Houston, Tex) The Lighthouse Church and Pastor Keion Henderson present The Virtue of Justice, with special guest, Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, President and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University. The dialogues will be built around Bryan Stephenson’s Equal Justice Initiative and its educational components, which were formed to help people learn, share, talk, and teach about America’s history of racial injustice and its legacy. Speakers will explore Christian moral theology, Justice being a quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. The dialogues will be filmed privately, and streamed online through Youtube and Lighthouse Church 2.0, and all concurrent social channels, with an estimated one million weekly viewers. Interviews are available beforehand, and the content can be reformatted in text for syndication. The sessions with be filmed Feb. 1 & 2, and streamed on Tuesdays in February, totaling four programs.Keion Henderson is Founder, CEO and Senior Pastor of The Lighthouse Church & Ministries, a church community headquartered in Houston, Texas. With more than 20 years in active ministry, and speaking for thousands worldwide, Pastor Henderson is a formidable thought leader, bridging cultural divides with relational armchair dialogues, and leading practical applications for success, via his accelerator for entrepreneurship, L3. His first book The SHIFT: Courageously Moving From Season to Season, has inspired people of all genres and backgrounds to face life’s challenging stages with tools, courage, and purpose. Founded in 2009, The Lighthouse Church encompasses five campuses and 30 ministries, as one of the fastest growing churches in the nation with over 12,000 members and climbing, welcoming viewers worldwide. The Lighthouse Church will open The Dream Center in 2021, an adjacent 40,000 square-foot facility.
Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette has been President & CEO of Huston-Tillotson University since July 2015. She is a strong proponent of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and civic and community engagement. She currently holds leadership positions in her community as co-chair of the Mayor of Austin’s Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities, chair of the Central Texas Collective for Racial Equity, and treasurer of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas. She serves on numerous boards and committees including the Greater Austin Area Black Chamber, Greater Austin Urban League, Austin Transit Partnership, Austin Community Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Advisory Council, and Urban Roots Advisory Council. Previously, she served as board chair of Leadership Austin, and as a member of the National Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities of The United Methodist Church.
The HMAAC mission is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations. In fulfilling its mission, HMAAC seeks to invite and engage visitors of every race and background and to inspire children of all ages through discovery-driven learning. HMAAC seeks to be a cultural portal through which people share and converge histories and contemporary experiences that acknowledge and expand the African American experience, and from such interactions come together to build a common future. ###