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2025-2026 Bill 4493 Text of Previous Version (May. 06, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4493

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A house RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND 
HONOR THE REVEREND YVONNE B. SIMMONS GREGG, PASTOR OF GREATER ST. PAUL AME 
CHURCH IN DORCHESTER, UPON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT AFTER MANY YEARS OF 
EXEMPLARY SERVICE AND TO WISH HER CONTINUED SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN ALL HER 
FUTURE ENDEAVORS.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives has learned that the Reverend Yvonne B. 
Simmons Gregg, pastor of Greater St. Paul AME Church in Dorchester, will begin 
a well-deserved retirement in September 2025 after many years of devoted 
ministerial service; and

Whereas, born in 
Charleston to Charles Bonaparte Sr. and Henrietta Gethers Bonaparte, the young Yvonne 
graduated with honors from C.A. Brown High School in 1967. She attended 
Talladega College on a four-year academic scholarship and graduated cum laude 
with a bachelor's degree in 1971, after which she took up her studies in the 
field of medical technology and became a registered medical technologist. Following 
twenty-eight years of service in her field, she retired in 2012 from the 
Medical University of South Carolina Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine; 
and

Whereas, in further 
preparation for her ministerial duties, Reverend Gregg earned her master of divinity 
from Erskine Theological Seminary in 2009; and

Whereas, her parents having 
early instilled in her a love for Christ, a love for learning, and a love of 
family, Yvonne, in time, entered the ministry. She preached her initial sermon 
in June 1995, and in September 1999 she was ordained a local elder. In 2012, 
her status was changed to itinerant elder, and she was appointed to St. Phillip 
AME Church. While serving at St. Phillip, she worked faithfully in the Edisto 
District Women in Ministry, actively participating in all activities. In 2014, 
she became the coordinator of the Edisto District Women in Ministry; and

Whereas, among her many 
honors is Coastal Christian Magazine's article titled "Ministering in 
the Midst of Tragedy," published in 2016. In 2018, the crowning moment of her 
ministry came when she was selected to preach the annual sermon of the 153rd 
Session of the South Carolina Annual Conference. That same year, she became the 
wife of the Reverend Wayne D. Gregg; and

Whereas, after seven 
years of blessed ministry at St. Phillip, in 2019 Reverend Gregg was appointed 
to serve at Greater St. Paul AME Church in Dorchester. She was honored in 2020 
as a recipient of the Seventh Episcopal District's Women of Distinction Jarena 
Lee Award; and

Whereas, grateful for 
Reverend Gregg's decades of committed service to God, the South Carolina House 
takes great pleasure in wishing her well as she enters retirement and trusts 
she will find much enjoyment in the more leisurely pace of the days ahead. Now, 
therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize 
and honor the Reverend Yvonne B. Simmons Gregg, pastor of Greater St. Paul AME 
Church in Dorchester, upon the occasion of her retirement after many years of 
exemplary service and wish her continued success and happiness in all her 
future endeavors.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to the Reverend Yvonne B. Simmons Gregg.

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