CityLight/Catalyst Prayer Breakfast

Guest Speaker J.T. McLawhorn

Of the Columbia Urban League

 The CityLight/Catalyst Prayer Breakfast has served as a networking platform for Pastors, Corporate, Community and Government leaders to create a vision for our community. CityLight Prayer Groups seek to transform local communities by partnering with Churches and other organization to provide hope with our words and help with our hands. 

Mr. McLawhorn has been president and chief executive officer of the Columbia Urban League since 1979. Under Mr. McLawhorn’s leadership, the Columbia Urban League has been recognized locally and nationally as a pacesetter for its advocacy and programmatic expertise in promoting youth leadership development for disadvantaged and foster care youths, along with its advocacy and leadership efforts in the area of equal opportunity and social justice. Known as the largest non-profit provider of youth career work experience in South Carolina, the League and its leader have received several awards for its youth leadership development programs.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Order of the Palmetto, the highest award given to a citizen in the state of South Carolina. Additionally, Mr. McLawhorn is an eagle scout and an inductee in the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame. Mr. McLawhorn received his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from North Carolina A&T University, Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami at Coral Gables, and an Honorary Doctorate degree from the College of Charleston.

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