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Trinity Community Ministries congratulates Dr. Bakari Vickerson as one of three Community Honorees for the 2009 Spirit of the League Awards Luncheon.
Atlanta, Georgia, June 29, 2009. On Saturday, June 27, 2009, Bakari Vickerson, M.D. was awarded the prestigious Community Honoree Award at the inaugural 2009 Spirit of the League Award Luncheon. Dr. Vickerson was chosen, along with three other nominees for the “Spirit of the League” award as he embodied the criteria of the award by overcoming life’s challenges and struggles to achieve success and give back to their community.
Bakari’s story is extraordinary as he came from a loving family only to turn to a life of drug dealing and living on the streets at a very early age. His mother Macedonia Vickerson, struggled with the fact that if she did not find help for her son, that he would be lost to a world of crime and drug abuse. She found Trinity Community Ministries (TCM). She took her son to the doorstep of Trinity House-Big Bethel (TH-BB), a transformational residential facility and program of TCM that supports homeless, addicted men to face their addiction, gain employment, regain relationships with family, find a sustainable safe home, begin saving money, and give back to their community.
Bakari embraced the program as well as the motto he now calls his own which he learned in the Oath of Honor at TH-BB, and remains his constant guide “make the place where I am better than the way I found it”. Soon after graduating from the TH-BB program, Bakari became a resident manager at TH-BB, did a term with AmeriCorps and then was accepted into the Atlanta Metropolitan College (AMC), with the ultimate goal of working in the field of medicine. After completing two years at AMC he was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship and then was accepted to Morehouse College where he majored in Biology. Bakari was accepted into the Howard University College of Medicine where he graduated as a medical doctor and then relocated back to Atlanta where he is currently in the Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Program.
Today, Dr. Vickerson often returns to TCM and supporting the resident brothers with his infectious positive attitude and gift of love and fellowship. Even though his residency schedule with Emory University is very full, he continues to give back to TCM and to the greater community at large through a variety of volunteer opportunities.
TCM is proud to be the nominating agency of Dr. Bakari Vickerson.
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