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(Brad Davis/The Register-Herald) Keynote speaker Dr. Geoffrey Cousins, a West Virginia-based heart surgeon and a national pioneer of robotic-assisted heart surgery, leads a special Swahili ceremony in which congregants would say the name or names of loved ones lost, and a small amount of water is poured in their honor as the word "ashe," meaning "so be it," is spoken in unison by the congregation during Heart of God Ministries' Black History Month celebration Sunday evening.