The Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc. (CBC) will present the Religion Award to South Fulton County minister, Bishop Shirley W. Cotton, at the organization’s 18th Annual Salute to Black Mothers Celebration Saturday, Oct. 28.

The event begins at noon at the Atlanta Airport Marriott, 4711 Best Road, Atlanta, and will feature as keynote speaker Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and moderator Monica Kaufman Pearson. Tickets are $35.

Bishop Cotton serves as the senior pastor of the Pentecostal Church of God Fairburn Mission, Inc., in Fairburn. She is the presiding bishop and general overseer of the Pentecostal Churches of God Fairburn Mission, Inc. and also is the founder and CEO of the Shirley W. Cotton International Ministries, Inc. which sponsors a weekly television program.

Cotton has conducted numerous healing and deliverance crusades and prayer services ministering to both clergy and laity in numerous places in the United States and across the globe.

She is president of the Southside Ministerial Association which seeks to promote unity and to coordinate efforts to educate, support, and improve communities in South Fulton County.

Additional honorees for the Saturday ceremony include presentations of the Education Award to Dollie Adams; Community Service Award to Janice McKenzie-Crayton; Corporate/Business Award to Shirley Mitchell; Distinguished Merit Award to Dorothy Herring; and President’s Award to Apostle Collette Gunby.

For more information on Cotton and the Pentecostal Church of God Fairburn Mission, call 770-964-0776 or e-mail, pcgodfbrnmission@aol.com.

For tickets or additional information on the Salute to Black Mothers, call 404-755-4900.

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