Rev. Raphael G. Warnock serves as the Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Ordained by the historic Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, he earlier served the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City. A scholar and activist, he has written on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and their challenge to the Church in their time and ours and is the author of Educating Teens For Positive Peer Intervention. During the 1992 Democratic Convention in New York City, he coordinated, under the auspices of Clergy and Laity Concerned and the Abyssinian Church, an alternative People's Convention, in memory of Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi sharecropper who told the nation in 1968 she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired." Currently, Rev. Warnock serves as Co-Chairman of The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS-Baltimore Chapter.