Bridgeport honors Bishop Ronnie Brayboy for 70 years of service

A big milestone today as one community honors a local religious leader who is celebrating seven decades of serving his church and his community. Our friend Frank Recchia joins us now with all the details. We are on Stratford Avenue here in the East End of Bridgeport at Bishop Ronnie Brave Boy Way. Bishop Ronnie Brave Boy, more than the name of a street, it's the path one man has paved over seven decades of leading his church and the parishioners who make it up by following a very simple mission. To direct them in the right way, tell them what is right and what is wrong. I think that's a good thing. Amen House of God Community Church holding a big 70th anniversary party with supporters saying his influence reaches well past the four walls of a church. His leadership helping young people stay in school and off the street. I feel good about it. The bishop in his 90s is also celebrating 70 years of marriage. His wife, Mildred, saying her husband helps kids battle everything from illicit drugs to gun violence. And you will overcome these things if you believe that it can be done. It will be done. Bishop Brave Boy telling us he is very proud to have completed an extraordinary journey. Well, it's not over. No. I pray that it's not over. And state and local leaders honoring Bishop Brave Boy this week for helping to light the way for generations of young people. On the East End of Bridgeport, Frank Recchia, News 12.