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Apostle Christine Wallace, D.Div is receiving the President's PVSA Lifetime Achievement Award for 40 years of community service on April 9, 2016.

This award  from the most respected and highest office in the land, the President of the United States of America,  is an exceptional honor for this woman of distinction. She was the first African American Postmaster within a 100 mile radius of Augusta Georgia from 1983 until 1985,  a time of constant and unrelenting racist counter pressure. However, she walked into the position and all of the trials and moral battles that it would hold with confidence and courage.

During her tenure she accomplished more than the efficient delivery of mail. She ordered a mural in the hall of the post office depicting slave laborers picking cotton to be removed from federal public grounds. Dr. Wallace undoubtedly received harsh criticism and reverberating backlash from this action. Yet she never wavered, believing that all citizens of the town should feel welcomed on government property without stigma or undercurrents of oppression.

Apostle Christine Wallace is currently in development of a multiphasic ministry campus on 30 acres of land for community enrichment and development in the city of Wrens, Georgia. According to the New York Times (Alan Flippen @alflip JUNE 26, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/upshot/where-are-the-hardest-places-to-live-in-the-us.html?_r=0 ) based on six key data points education, median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy and obesity as well as  income mobility and measures of environmental quality, Jefferson County/Wrens, GA is one of the ten lowest counties in the country and one of the hardest places to live.

The city's statistics and the situation of it's citizens are evidence of Dr. Wallace's commitment to building people and supporting family growth, stability and independence. Programs implemented to that end include focus on youth mentoring, education and career training and employability, accelerated adult high school diploma program, and college preparatory classes which serve the dual purpose of educating the mind and raising the standard from low aim to high ambition.

I humbly request that the First Lady of the United States of America, Mrs. Michelle Obama, a woman of highest distinction, accept our invitation to appear and speak encouragement to the lifelong pursuit of this great woman to affect change for the people most needing an advocate.