Brookhaven native Tex Sample will have his name placed on the Wall of Freedom in Kansas City, Missouri.

Sample will be honored by the black community on Aug. 24 at the “Monument to Freedom, Justice, and Courage Honoree Celebration” in Leon Jordan Memorial Park. The monument was constructed to highlight those whose work significantly impacts the African-American community in Jackson County, Missouri.

Sample was also recently named a Lifetime Trustee at Saint Paul School of Theology, where he taught 32 years on the faculty, and served seven years on the Board of Trustees, three as chairperson.

In addition, Sample will publish his 15^th book in October — “Micro Practices for Justice Ministry,” through Upper Room Books.

Sample is the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the Saint Paul School of Theology. He served 15 years as a pastor, and during the mid-1960s was the director of the Social Relations Department of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.

A 1953 graduate of Brookhaven High School, he is the brother of Patricia Sample Smith, who lives in Brookhaven.