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Pastor Michelle C. Thomas at Easter Sunrise Service, John Wesley Church, Waterford, Virginia 2019. Pastor Michelle C. Thomas is President of Loudoun County, Virginiua’s NAACP. She has gained recognition for her successful efforts to preserve African American burial sites in a rapidly developing county. John Wesley Church, built by its African American congregation after the Civil War, is located in Waterford, a historic village on the National Registry of Historic Places.