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Rockford-area faith leaders write: "The Pretrial Fairness Act promotes the freedom, equality and justice that each individual deserves under the law."
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Rockford-area faith leaders write: "The Pretrial Fairness Act promotes the freedom, equality and justice that each individual deserves under the law."
Audio for the feature story. Violet Johnicker is the pastor of Brooke Road United Methodist Church in Rockford. Johnicker said her father was excited about and supported her to decision to be a minister and her mother understood the life because she herself was a preacher’s kid. Brooke Road United Methodist Church. Credit https://www.facebook.com/TheBrookeRockford Johnicker’s maternal grandfather, Reverend Warren Seyfert, was a minister in the United Church of Christ in the 1970s. He died when she was 10 years old. She explained that she attended seminary school after researching his...