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Who is Michael White? Even if you are not intimately aware, you are probably familiar with his voice and music. His past projects, including presenting the “The Conqueror Project” with Michael White and True Praise and writing “Bless the Name of the Lord,” “Great and Marvelous God,” and Reid Temple’s theme song (that we sing every Sun- day), “We’re Glad to be at Reid Temple,” have gained him enough respect and recognition to take him anywhere in the world. However, on any given Sunday, the family and friends of Reid Temple North are ushered into worship by our music ministry led by this awesome and humble man of God. For the past 20 years, he and his wife Cherlyn, along with their children, Dion, Anissa, Mian, and Cierra, have been an integral part of the Reid Temple Family. Since the age of 8, Michael Lorenzo White has A Melody known that music would always be a part of his life. It was at this age that he began praying for the gift to use instruments — the piano and the in the Air: organ, in addition to his voice — to minister to the people of God through music. White’s impetus to move from singing to playing music church in Virginia, his father had difficulty Getting to know Michael White was his father. As the pastor of a small Baptist finding and hiring musicians to come from the and the Reid Temple North Washington, D.C. area to play at their church. White wanted to be able to play for his father Music Ministry and be dependable enough to take care of that Rev. Hilda L. Hudson By Shakisha O’Connor was a piano, this was the first instrument that part of the ministry. Since all the church had he taught himself how to play. When he be- came older, White studied at the Shenandoah 14 • Joshua’s Journal • Winter 2014 Conservatory of Music to further hone his gift. 14 • Joshua’s Journal • Winter 2014