MLK Prayer Breakfast 2024

Keynote Speaker

Efrem Smith is a pastor, consultant, speaker, and author. He is passionate about life transformation, multiethnic development, faithful and fruitful churches, and community development. He also serves as a catalyst for African American and Multiethnic Church Planting, Revitalization, Disciple Making, and Metropolitan Missional Movements.

Efrem was the founding pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church in Minneapolis, MN, He served as the Superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He also served as the President of World Impact, an urban missions organization. Currently, Efrem is the Co-lead Pastor of Midtown Church, a flourishing, multicampus, and multi-ethnic community in Sacramento, California. He is also Co-Owner of Influential LLC, a speaking, consulting, and coaching ministry. Efrem is the author of Raising Up Young Heroes, The Hip Hop Church, Jump, The Post-Black and Post-White Church, and Killing Us Softly.

Efrem is a graduate of Saint John's University and Luther Theological Seminary. He completed the Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and received an honorary Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary. He is a certified administrator and interpreter of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated. Efrem is married to Donecia and they have two daughters, Jaeda and Mireya.

Rev. Dr. Efrem Smith

Mountaintop Awardees 2024

  • Derrick Wheeler Smith

    Community Award

    Director of Office For Civil Rights | City of Seattle

  • Dr. Dwane Chappelle

    Education Award

    Department Director at City of Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning

  • Eddie Rye Jr.

    Lifetime Service Award

    Community Leader/Activist Urban Forum Northwest

Event Co-Chairs 2024

For eleven years Seattle has presented The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast to the community with the mission of uniting businesses, non-profit organizations, and church families together to celebrate the spiritual legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor community education, business and community leaders who model Dr. King’s work in justice and reconciliation within their individual reach.  

The founders of Seattle’s MLK Prayer Breakfast, Donnie Griffin and Rev. Allen Belton, realized the importance of not letting Dr. King’s dream fade away, and in 2019 they passed the torch to new co-chairs, Romanita Hairston and Rev. Harvey Drake and in 2022 the torch was passed to Rosa Nicole Booker and Mike Davis.

Rosa Nicole Booker

Rosa Nicole Booker was born in AZ, educated in Orange County, and has deep roots in Seattle's Southend. Her ministry is to serve underrepresented families of color. She launched www.myRCBevent.com in 2019 to support local nonprofits. This fun-loving, kind hearted, local creative, is also the author of The Monster in My Room, Tot’s BIG HOUSE, and Porrington, sharing written story and live discussion on mental health. You can find samples of her work in the Debbie Macomber and The Anchor Gathering magazines, learn more about her work on her Rosa Nicole Booker YouTube channel, or visit her website at www.rosanicolebooker.com.

Mike Davis

Originally from Kansas City, MO is an electrifying performer and motivational speaker who reflects the knowledge of self, collective creativity, cultural consciousness and most important to him, the Gospel.  Davis started his journey in 1998 as a motivational speaker and in 2002 began to marry the art with the message. In 2009, he moved to Seattle and has continued his endeavors as both artist and minister to provide opportunity for youth and young leaders to encounter community, opportunity and the presence of God through a program he founded called “Cultured” a performing arts based, outreach ministry in South Seattle, www.redeemedculture.org.

Our Sponsors for 2024

 

Community Partners

 

Our Purpose

“To unite communities to celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

honor leaders who model his work, and promote justice and reconciliation in the greater Seattle community.”

The  12th  Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast  is presented by the MLK Prayer Breakfast Planning Committee, MLK Breakfast Business Advisory Committee, Urban Impact and Community Partners  - C3 Leaders, King County Youth Chaplaincy, Olive Crest, Seattle Pacific University John Perkins Center, Seattle Youth for Christ, World Relief, Fellowship Seattle, Community Passageways and Vision House and Acts on Stage, in cooperation with the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee.