The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Statesboro will include a prayer breakfast, s poetry and literature reading, church services, a community gathering and a parade, said Pearl Brown, president of the Bulloch County chapter of the NAACP. The prayer breakfast is slated for Saturday at 8 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church off Gentilly Road, Brown said. Sheila Francois will be the keynote speaker, and tickets are $12, with proceeds to benefit the Bulloch County Youth Council. As part of the Averitt Center for the Arts’ African Heritage Series, Director Mical Whitaker will present “Behold, Here Cometh the Dreamer,” an evening of poetry and literature readings from the works of renowned African writers, as presented by eight local community leaders.