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NEWS FROM THE PRODUCERS
- NEW INTERVIEWS: November 2011: We are pleased that we just completed filming 14 great, High-Definition interviews for the documentary, bringing our total interviews to 27. Click here to see who we interviewed.
- NEW PRESS COVERAGE: October 2011: More press coverage from Bill Boyarsky in LA Observed. Click here to read the article.
- NEW FUNDING: May and June 2011: We received two generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, which enabled us to complete the 2011 filmed interviews.
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Grandpa your gone now but not forgotten I have many regrets from not meeting you. When I came to your funeral it truly broke my heart to hear all the stories about you and not to be included that hurt. My mom still tells me not to look for rejection from your family and I truly wasn't I just wanted to see my grandpa Love always your granddaughter Cathy.If only we would have took the time valuable lesson learned.
I have been blessed to have known William "Bill" Elkins and to have been known by him all of my life. I grew up in Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles along with his sons, William III and Larry and accordingly knew him as a Church Trustee and Sunday School teacher who had, himself, grown up in Second Baptist Church. I also attended Jefferson High School and knew him as a faithful alumnus who attended many of the basketball games. I also had opportunity to know him as Executive Director of the Teen Post Inc. Thusly I was exposed to him as a faithful Christian; also along with his wife, Eleanor, a nurturing parent; a person committed to the interest of the youth of our community; and then with Mayor Bradley, a significant civic leader. I later pledged Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., and again, was exposed to him encouraging young college me toward achievement.
Bill's life was a wholistic response to Jesus Christ and he was ever involved in supporting the leadership of Dr. Thomas Kilgore Jr. in pushing the church forward to express the demands of the gospel in service in the community.
As I called into ministry and ultimately into the Pastorate, Bill was ever present encouraging, supporting, and urging me to live out the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ in making a positive difference in the life of the community and to do so with intelligence and uncompromising vigor to invest myself in the behalf of the good of others.
William Elkins was truly somebody who helped and enabled others to know that they too were somebody.
He now stands as an ultimate achiever and the beneficiary of the gift of eternal salvation that he has through our Lord, Savior and Liberator, Jesus Christ.
Pastor William Monroe Campbell
Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church,
Los Angeles, California
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