Black clergy give Elizabeth Warren prayerful Senate send-off

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In a rousing prayer session in a small brick church in Dorchester Sunday evening, Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren asked the city’s black ministers and church members to pray for her as she heads to Washington, D.C., and vowed to fulfill her duty to represent the least powerful.

The hourlong service at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church reflected the close relationships Warren built with black church leaders during her campaign, and her presence cemented their faith that she will fight for them, they said. Preachers and members from a dozen churches gathered for the send-off.

About 100 people attended the service at the Humboldt Avenue church, near the Roxbury line, filling a dozen rows of plain wooden pews. They listened intently when Warren came to the pulpit, thanked them for their prayers, and asked them to continue praying for her . . .

Criticized for a sometimes cautious approach in her campaign, she seemed at ease in the Dorchester church, interrupting her own remarks to ask, “Can I have an ‘Amen’ on that?” (The crowd responded with laughter and a loud “Amen.”)


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