Every year, PCC honors the folks in our church who are graduating from schools and universities with a full fledged cap and gown graduation ceremony.
The keynote speaker was Bradley Wallace. Bradley uses his own past experience of feeling “less than…” to encourage the graduates to be “more than…”.
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PCC scholar and graduate, Shiekera Pinnock, delivers a graduation message to the graduating students of Pioneer Community Church
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Former PCC student and UF Graduate, Dr. Tamar Carter, delivered the keynote address to the Pioneer Community Church’s high school graduates.
Tamar Carter grew up in our church, first at MGC Worship Center and then later at PCC. While at PCC, Tamar served in a number of areas, most notably in our Nursery Department prior to attending the University of FL to pursue a degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences.
Upon graduation from her Undergrad, Tamar decided to pursue an advanced degree in Genetics at the University of Florida Genetics Institute, where she received her PhD. While initially planning on doing genetics research in hypertension, Dr. Carter developed a passion for studying certain malarial disorders suffered by people in Haiti. The outcome of her research is being used to advise the government about how to organize policies aimed at helping malaria sufferers, and which drugs ought to be administered.
During her time at University of FL, Tamar’s research led her to be the recipient of the United Negro College Fund Dissertation Fellowship, one of only 12 students a year receive the prestigious award.
Tamar is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics. Prior to that, she did some work for the Centers for Disease Control.
Tamar has a passion for:
• Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
• Education
• Health
• Human Rights
• Poverty Alleviation
• Science and Technology
Most importantly, she has a passion for Jesus Christ.
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Dr. Tameka Hobbs, author, professor, and PCC member, delivers the commencement speech at PCC’s annual Graduation Ceremony.
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Pioneer Community Church demonstrates its commitment to its youth and to education by recognizing them with a graduation ceremony full of pomp and circumstance. In the commencement speech, Dr. William Hobbs counsels the graduates on avoiding many of the pitfalls that can come from moving from one stage of life to the next.
Dr. William Hobbs is a professor of Creative Writing at Florida Memorial University.
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