[singing] [organ music] [singing] [choir singing] [organ music] [choir singing] this is a celebration of life for george floyd. We are in celebration of life for our brother. [singing] [singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [organ music] [applause] [organ music] please be seated at this moment so that the family may enter. As you are seated, please respect social distancing. Appreciated. Ly god bless you and thank you. [organ music] please move to your seats swiftly so the service may begin to honor the memory and legacy of mr. George floyd. Your presence here is greatly appreciated. We are asking everyone please be seated at this time. Lived up thine eyes into the hills. My help comes from the lord. Suffer he they keep its made shall not slumber, behold he they keep its israel shall not slumber nor sleep for the lord is the keeper. The lord is the shade on my right hand. Lord shall preserve the from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. The lord shall preserve thy going out and coming in. From this time forward even forevermore. In the sick is sacred place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. He is my refuge and my fortress. He is my god. In him will i trust. Me. Ly, he shall deliver hishall cover me with brothers and underneath his wings shall i trust. History shall be my shield. The shall not be afraid of the arrow by day nor the pestilence that walked in darkness nor the destruction that wasted as noonday. Thousands shall fall by the side. 10,000 by the right hand. But it shall not come near you. Oh lord you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth even though has formed the earth and of the world, thou art god. I will bless the lord at all times. Phrases shall continually be didactic. Thy bounty. For god is our refuge and strength. A very present help in time of trouble. ,herefore, we will not fear though the earth be removed, though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters be raw and troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof, there is a river streams shall make glad the city of our god. Holy places of the tabernacle of the most high. God is in the midst of earth. She shall not be moved. God shall help her. [singing] for the earth is the lord. World that dwell therein, he has founded upon the city and established it. Ascend, whoshall shall stand it is holy place. He who has clean hands and a pure heart. He shall receive the blessings of the lord. Righteousness from the god of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him. That seek by faith in jacob. Lift up your hands. Lord. Ted up everlasting king of glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory . Lord strong and mighty. The lord mighty in battle. Lift up your hands. Be lifted up. The king of glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory . The lord of hosts, he is the king. For god is our refuge and strength. A very present help in a time of trouble. Therefore, we will not fear. Though the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into though the sea,. Ountains shake bless him lord. Strengthen him lord. [singing] [singing] [choir singing] george floyd [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [organ music] [organ music] [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] we have a lot of people still getting in here, we have been asked so much for social distancing today. Obviously, there are a lot more people than i thought. If you are in the house today without a mask, you need to get a mask or you cannot stay in the house. Amen. [applause] i say this all the time. I believe that the church is an essential place of worship, but our people are not expendable. We need to be sensitive to that. If you can, keep some space between you or someone else, especially if you did not come in a family setting. We ask that you keep moving right on through. He is the keeper of my soul. [choir singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] men, you may be seated. We give honor to god who is the head of our lives and we greet each other everyone of you who are watching by way of television and stream on those of you who are here. T observe the ongoing celebration of brother george floyd and certainly let me say that his family, our hearts and prayers are with you, we trust that god will strengthen you. In times like these, we need a savior in times like these, we need an anchor. Be very sure that your anchor holds and grips the solid rock. We want to bring greetings to everyone who is within the sanctuary walls as well as those watching via stream or some platform today. I am reminded of the Summers Family and a time of trouble and he said, this poor man called out. And he lord heard him saved him out of all of his troubles. Those whoamps around fear him and he delivers them. His word is what helps me and blesses me in such a manner that i can never move out of my pain without remembering this, that the lord is close to the brokenhearted and he saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 37 giving hope to the floyd family and all that are here, to our of the people, to the clergy and the leaders of faith in our committee and dignitaries on elected officials who are here and everyone who has taken time to join us by stream. We are all connected. This is a moment of conductivity. God hasa moment which gathered people are all around the world to connect us around the life of brother george harry floyd. Listen, today there is a few things we want to encourage you to expect. Can we help you today . We ask you to keep your mask on within the sanctuary. If anyone is in distress, you can stop raise your hand and our ushersules will help you. In the tradition of an advocate american church, this will be an ongoing celebration. I want to say it again, this will be an ongoing celebration of brother George Floyds life. That means footstomping, toetapping and praising god. We are celebrating his life. Just before we begin this homegoing celebration, let me thank publicly all of those people that helped make this come to pass. I want to begin with esquire benjamin crump. Thank you for watching over this family. In times of devastation, someone has to stand up and take the lead and thank god you have done just that, brother. And also the reverend al sharpton, thank you through North Carolina and minneapolis, continuing to sound the trumpet and let people know that this is about injustice and we want to see justice served. And then locally come i want to thank our mayor and mayor pro tem who have done a wonderful job in making all of the resources of this city available to have the viewing yesterday. We had a viewing yesterday with tens of thousands of people that came through these doors. And it came off without a hitch because we made sure hpd was here and the Fire Department and people were here who were emt specialists. We had people from everywhere giving out water for all of those that donated your services, your resources, we want to thank you on behalf of this family. We thank you, thank you, thank you. To brother george anderson, our chief operating officer of the church and brother dallas jones working together in tandem to make sure everything was pulled together, thank you. This is an enormous task. This is a gigantic responsibility. And for people that look at it and think i would not have done it this way, you dont know how you would have done it if you had this many people. [applause] this many people funneling through your doors but thank god we did not have any problems. Everybody was respectful, everybody was sensitive to what the family is facing and we are just glad to know that we have such a great team here in houston. I think we are ready to have some church. Its time for us to celebrate his life. We may weep, we may mourn, but we will find comfort. We want to follow the program that has printed but for those who do not have programs, the musical selection will be less led by pastor kim burrell and the singers have blessed us already. Reverend Arthur Rucker will do a part of the scriptural reading, the Old Testament. Of greater st. Matthew Baptist Church in houston will read from the new testament. Reverend dr. Mary white will lead who leads the prison ministry, she will offer prayer of comfort to the family. After which, there will be a Video Montage that i think all of you will enjoy. In that order, we are asking you to say amen. As historical as this is, we recognize this is a real family with real feelings. There are a lot of us in here who are in that position and it hurt. We want you to know the moment the world announced that george floyd had left the earth physically. We became family. Everyone in this room just center our love around this family because no one needs to her to live it, to have a loved one leave. We stand here and celebrate his life. But i want to leave you with these words do not dismay , whatever be time. He will take care of all of you. God bless you floyd family. Giving honor to the family, george floyd, to the dignitaries in the house and all of the clergy and to the great pastor of this house, we offer you the reading of the word in the Old Testament according to the book of amos. Verser five, beginning at 16. Therefore the lord, the god of hosts will come of hosts, the lord saith thus whaling shall be in all the say in on the shell all all the highways, alas, alas. And they shall all call the farmer to morning and such as are skill over our skillful lamentation to whaling and all the vineyards shall be wailing for i will pass through these, saith the lord. To you who desire the day of the lord, to what end is it for you, the day of the lord is darkness and not light. Man flee from alliant in a bear met him or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent fit him. Shall not the day of the lord be darkness and not light even very dark and no brightness in it. I hate and despise your feast and will not take the light in your solemn assembly. Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meal offerings, i will not accept them. Neither will i regard the piece. Take away for me the noise of your song for i will not hear the melody of your harps but let justice run down like waters in righteousness like a mighty stream and this is the word of the lord. Thanks be unto god. , Pastore Floyd family ronnie booker, want you to know we are still praying for you. God hasyou to know that the himself available to in person of jesus christ to help you in times like these. God bless you. Thessalonians, chapter four, beginning at verse 13 but i would not help you to be ignorant, brethren and consigning them that are asleep that ye sorrow not given that others who have no hope. For we believe that jesus died and rose again. Even so also them which sleep in jesus will god bring with him. For they say unto you, by the we remain untod, the coming of the lord shall not event them which are asleep. For the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of god and the dead in and christ will rise first. Then we reach our lives and remains shall be called us together to meet the lord in their so shall we ever be with the lord. Comfort one another with these words. God bless you. To all of the dignitaries and our pastor in the sanctuary for the celebration. Acknowledge sherita who was a valued member of our prison ministry. We had letters coming from those who are incarcerated and as far away as angola, louisiana because of what shes done for the kingdom. In a momentou love of prayer, gather with me, lets talk to god for a minute. My hands toretch father, no other help do i know and god, if you withdraw yourself from us, where shall we go . We acknowledge you as the master, the creator, the sovereign god, the ruler, the god that is higher than high, more majestic than majesty, greater than great, more loving than love itself. God, you were god and your sovereign. We welcome your presence thats already in this place. Master, we thank you for the celebration, we thank you for the life of george floyd, that at a moment when he called out for his mama, we believed the ears of mamas across the nation, that the ears of mamas across the world heard him cry even though for one mama, all mamas begin to weep. Begin to wail for our grandchildren. We wailed for men across this world because of one mamas call, god thank you. Thank you, god today, master. We thank you for what you are doing in this place, father. I ask that you would ignite upon us cloven tongues. Because cloven tongues of fire were to and declared righteousness. But fiery tons come out in anger, ignite in tongues of fire. God, right now, we are in a singge land and how can we in a strange land . I can sing because i know who rains. We can sing because we know who god is, where god is and what. God is about thats how we can sing in a strange land. God, its a strange land when we have to make a law to have empathy for her brothers and sisters. The empathy is not self mende vetted but it has not become motivated. God help us in this place today. We pray for the family of george hasd who time after time borne private grief in public places. I remember you said you bore our grief, you bore our sorrows. The name of jesus, remind him of your everlasting arms, remind him that this shall be in ebenezer, a time of remembrance, the shall be up to everybody to remind the nation that this is our ebenezer. We speak and we decree and we declaim that right now, lord, there shall be justice. Right now, there shall be a remnant you have raised up. Lord god, give them strength of this time of sorrow, encourage them and put your arms around them and let them know that my god is here, that my god is a we willr and above all, celebrate, we will remember these days and we will call on god because our god shall come with a vengeance. Will avenge us. Our god will come. Hail to king jesus. We believe it. In, we lay hands on it jesuss name amen. [choir singing] god bless us all. Brother, that shows true skills right there. Thank you, amen and for that wonderful selection. At this time, we are going to have resolutions read by one of the daughters of this house. She has gone on to do some phenomenal things for god and gods blessing her all over the world i speak of not other than iv mcgregor. Greet her with a hearty amen right now. [applause] you, pastor wright and copastor me aright and certainly to this family, to reverend sharpton and for all dignitaries and to all officials. To the family, on behalf of the fountain of praise church, our prayer for the family in this season and this unexpected time is to draw comfort from the fact that while this incident in the untimely incident, it is no surprise to the heavenly father, the bible says in psalms 46 and one, god is our refuge and strength. In trouble. Help we stand fast in our faith that in her bracesyou to prop you on every leaning side. May you feel the closeness of his comfort in the warmth of his presence as you cope with his heart rendering transition. We are praying for you. We are interceding on your behalf and want each of you to know that our love extends to you from houston to all parts of the world. Mcgee tate, a spiritual daughter of this house, or family members and all of the family members, we await the joy that comes in the morning after the weeping season. The bible says that our god will wipe away all tears from your eyes and soon, your sorrow shall be swallowed up in joy. This is given on behalf of mia right. Us and in his own way and for his own purpose, god has reached down into his garden to pluck one of his fair flowers. Recently, god called the spirit of a recently departed george home to be with him throughout eternity. Whereas, we the officers and the members of the greater st. Matthew Baptist Church, desire to express our love and respect to our departed brother. We make these resolutions a copy which will be kept in our records. Butte also resolved that even as we mourn his departure, we resign to the will of an allknowing and kind heavenly father. We sure the family of the deceased that they have everlasting, heartfelt sympathies. This is on behalf of the greater st. Matthew Baptist Church, reverend Ronald Booker senior, senior pastor. On behalf of jack yates, senior high school, the resolution is 1993. Orge floyd, class of where as we are deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved jack yates lien, george floyd, whom the father has called from labor to reward. Where as george floyd was a member of the legendary jack ates class of 1993, was respected leader among all liens, served with character and distinction as an athletic, gifted member of the mighty lyons, 19 92, runnerup state Championship Football Team as the starting tight end and was a member of the highperforming mighty lyons Basketball Team who inch at a six foot, six power forward, able to dunk with both hands and whereas, george floyd lovingly known as big floyd and the gentle giant, was steadfast in his kindness and devotion to helping his fellow jackie eights liens succeed ofough his genuine example love, faith and generosity. Floyd has left a legacy of love, loyalty and service to dear old Jackie Jack Yates high that will live on forever in our hearts. Be it resolved that Jack Yates Senior High School embraces the floyd family because of the love that we share. George floyd and his big smile and sense of humor can never be replaced but his legacy as a , as aa father, a brother friend will be honored each time his family jack yates alumni are gathered. His beloved Third Ward Community and friends and all other standup and fight for justice in his name, humbly submitted on the this ninth day of june by the Jack Yates Senior High School. [applause] the family of george floyd like to acknowledge the message of solidarity resolution and visual excellency, the president of ghana. During the memorial yesterday, a video produced by the people of ghana was broadcast for thousands of mourners as they pay their final respects to mr. Floyd. The family is honored by the president , the decision to have mr. Floyds name permanently mounted in the historic wall at the Diaspora African Forum and Dubois Center in africa. They are grateful that the country of ghana stands with the floyd family on the struggle of all families to change the status quo of racism and prejudice. The family is deeply moved by the generous act of the ghanaian government to solidify George Floyds legacy.