Visionary people featured at January prayer breakfast

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. It seems fitting in January – a month when people often envision ways to improve – that the gathering of the Monticello Community Prayer Breakfast featured a number of visionary people in our community. Right after the welcome from Dr. George Pittman, Sr., he asked everyone to stand for a moment of silence to honor Rev. James B. Duvall, an impactful leader who had recently passed away on Dec. 24, 2023. The church he pastored in Monticello, Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, was hosting the Jan. 4 breakfast. During the program that morning, Mary Madison and Pittman also presented a plaque of appreciation to Gary Wright, who envisioned the monthly Mo