In the wee hours of a day in November 2007, the Lord spoke to Jerome Henderson about Barack Obama.
Henderson woke at 2 a.m. and wrote an entire song that day.
When the last note was set, Henderson had composed a nearly 6-plus-minute tribute to Obama, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, called "It's Time For A Change."
Henderson, a native Richmonder who now lives in South Carolina, stars in an accompanying video that he made and posted to YouTube.
A pastor and longshoreman in Charleston, S.C., Henderson, 48, is graduated from Richmond's Thomas Jefferson High School. He spent 30 years in Richmond, and attended St. James United Holiness Church on 28th Street.
Henderson, his wife, Sharon, and their 9-year-old daughter, Angel, who joins in the song and video with her father, met Obama in January of 2008 because Jerome was a representative of the International Longshoreman's Association that endorsed the senator from Illinois.
The video shows Jerome and Angel walking on a beach, Angel and other children drawing posters in support of Obama, Jerome singing in church and images of gas pumps, and damage after Hurricane Katrina.
He croons about giving Obama a chance and that there is hope in the world today. Sings Henderson:
"Jesus told me it's time for a change, oh yeah."
Contact Olympia Meola at (804) 649-6812 or omeola@timesdispatch.com.
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