South Carolina H 4482: Housing Attainability Protection

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2025-2026 Bill 4482 Text of Previous Version (May. 01, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4482

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A house RESOLUTION

TO COMMEND PASTOR MICHAEL R. CANNON UPON HIS 
INSTALLATION AS PASTOR OF CHERRY GROVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN DARLINGTON 
AND to extend heartfelt congratulations to him on this significant milestone of 
conducting his recent installation service.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is pleased to recognize Pastor Michael R. 
Cannon on the occasion of his installation as the new pastor of Cherry Grove 
Missionary Baptist Church in Darlington and to recognize his dedicated service 
to faith and community.

Whereas, reared in 
Greenwood, he is the fourth of five children born to the late Roscoe Cannon Sr. 
and Virginia Wilson Cannon. He grew up in a loving home with siblings Jacquline, 
Roscoe Jr., Ronny, and Dexter; and

Whereas, in preparation 
for a career of service, Pastor Cannon earned a bachelor's degree in business 
administration and management from South Carolina State University in 1991 and 
a master's degree in human resource development in 2002; and

Whereas, he furthered 
his studies for ministry with a Master of Divinity in theology and religious studies 
from Shaw University's School of Divinity in Raleigh, North Carolina, and he 
has accumulated one thousand six hundred hours in post graduate studies of 
training in clinical pastoral education from the school of Pastoral Supervision 
and Psychotherapy; and

Whereas, he has served 
in ministry for twenty years with nineteen years as the pastor of Piney Grove 
Missionary Baptist Church, and he has recently begun serving as the senior 
pastor of Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Darlington; and

Whereas, Pastor Cannon 
currently serves as a regional clinical chaplain with the South Carolina 
Department of Corrections where he oversees the chaplaincy services in the 
institutions. He has also served as senior clinical chaplain III at Kirkland 
Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, senior clinical chaplain at Evans 
Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, and chaplain at Lee Correctional 
Institution in Bishopville; and

Whereas, Pastor Cannon 
has served as a group facilitator for batterers' treatment of domestic violence 
through the Pee Dee Coalition's Alternative to Violence program. He has also 
served as a substance abuse counselor for Innovative Solutions in Columbia. He 
currently serves in the South Carolina Baptist Educational and Missionary 
Convention to oversee the convention's prison ministry; and

Whereas, his passion to 
serve as a chaplain in corrections began as a youth choir member at the Second 
Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood, where the youth choir would participate 
in prison ministry by singing at the detention center. In 2006, he was blessed 
with the opportunity to serve as Chaplain for the South Carolina Department of 
Corrections; and

Whereas, Chaplain 
Cannon has two fine daughters who inspire him in his ministry, and his other source 
of inspiration is from the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? 
Everybody can be great because everybody can serve." Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, commend 
Pastor Michael R. Cannon upon his installation as pastor of Cherry Grove Missionary 
Baptist Church in Darlington and to extend heartfelt congratulations to him on 
this significant milestone of conducting his recent installation service.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Pastor Michael R. Cannon.

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