The West Columbia City Council approved a resolution at its meeting Tuesday in honor of Dr. Charles Jackson, who has been pastor of Brookland Baptist Church For 50 years.

“You can’t put into words all that Dr. Jackson has done,” said Mayor Tem Miles.

Councilman Mickey Pringle said Jackson has always been an integral part of the community and he will continue to improve it.

Among other accomplishments, the resolution recognized that “under the leadership of Dr. Charles B. Jack son, Sr., Brookland Baptist has over 60 ministries, over 190 employees, a full-service Federal Credit Union, the Brookland Foundation, the Brookland Center for Community Economic Change, the Brookland-West Columbia Community Housing Development Corporation, the Brookland Community Pediatric Center with Eau Claire Cooperative, and Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center which recently was sealed as the first historically segregated African American school to receive a state marker in Lexington County.”

View the full resolution at https://www.lexingtonchronicle.com/features/ west-columbia-city-councilrecognizes-dr-charles-jackson-50-years-service .