Two pastors went to City Hall on Monday to sit down with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
The painting behind them — the big abstract one in the mayor’s ceremonial office — has yellow, green, and a thousand colored bubbles. American flag to the left. California flag to the right. Lurie in the middle, hands clasped at the waist, the way mayors stand for photographs.
The Rev. Dr. Leroy E. Adams Jr., senior pastor of Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco, asked for the meeting. He brought the Rev. Dr. Rodney Leggett of Cornerstone Baptist Church.
What they talked about, the Providence Facebook post didn’t say. “A productive conversation,” is how Adams put it. He thanked Leggett for joining him. He said he was looking forward to more meetings — with the mayor, and with the mayor’s directors.
The directors run the city. The pastors know it.
Adams sits on the executive board of the San Francisco NAACP and serves with the city’s African American Faith-Based Coalition. He came to Providence in May 2020 and preached his first sermon — from John 9 — through a phone line and a Facebook stream, because the doors were closed.
The doors are open now. So, evidently, is the mayor’s.
— Sun-Reporter staff
