Friends and colleagues continue to share memories of the Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts. The leader of Harlem's historic Abyssinian Baptist Church died Friday. tvjessi spoke with a Brooklyn-based pastor who followed in his mentor's footsteps.
"He has been, I think, one of the foremost models that we've seen nationally, particularly in a Baptist church, with what he has been able to do across the wide spectrum of his engagement at all levels for the advancement of our people," Bachus said.Bachus' grandfather once took a young Butts under his wing at the National Baptist Convention, a gesture returned when Rev.
Bachus quickly took interest in the Abyssinian Development Corporation, and took over its $2 billion portfolio. "What did you learn from that experience at Abyssinian and bring back to the church you once led?" Mitchell asked.
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