Monroe County Prayer
2019 Intercessory Prayer Calendar Dear Family, Friends, Ministry and Community Leaders, and Elected Officials, Attached please find the 2019 prayer calendar for your use and to pass out to your circles / ministries. Thank you for all of the emails and updates in 2018 as you took your place on the wall and interceded for our community. It makes a big difference. Entering its 12th year (since 2008), the Monroe County-Wide Prayer Initiative allows us to employ a collective, yet flexible strategy of prayer that will result in participants systematically praying for almost every neighborhood in...
Read MoreOur Wonderful 2018 Tree
Christmas is on its way! This year’s community Christmas tree in our Garden Park on Arnett Boulevard has been a great success! From its arrival from Naples and set up by an enthusiastic group of neighborhood volunteers and local Firemen on December 1, to its decorating from top to bottom the following Monday by classrooms of local elementary school students, its been lighting up the neighborhood with the Christmas spirit of unity and harmony. Look for scenes from our community caroling around the tree event on December 11, in the slideshow posted below. We had a bright bonfire going to roast...
Read MoreOne Teacher’s Strategy
“Mining for gold” in the classroom A few weeks ago, I went into my son Chase’s class for tutoring. I’d e-mailed Chase’s teacher one evening and said, “Chase keeps telling me that this stuff you’re sending home is math—but I’m not sure I believe him. Help, please.” She e-mailed right back and said, “No problem! I can tutor Chase after school anytime.” And I said, “No, not him. Me. He gets it. Help me.” And that’s how I ended up standing at a chalkboard in an empty fifth-grade classroom while Chase’s teacher sat behind me, using a soothing voice to try to help me understand the...
Read MoreFeast of Tabernacles
The High Holidays or “Days of Awe” and Rosh Hashanah have just concluded this past week with the solemn fast and deep contemplations of Yom Kippur, and we are about to embark this week (click here for a calendar and brief explanation of this fall’s events) on one of our faith’s most lasting celebrations, Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles. Every biblical holiday given to the Jewish people has these three aspects: Israel was commanded to observe the holiday in the present in order to remember something God had done in the past, and because of some future prophetic purpose hidden within each...
Read MoreInspiring Our Community
Empowerment Conference in October Saturday, October 13 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. residents will have an opportunity to take part in “Inspiring Our Community: Today, Tomorrow and Always”, a conference sponsored by Mayor Lovely Warren, WDKX Radio and MJS Productions. Please see the attached letter from the Mayor for conference details, workshop descriptions, and information on how to register. You may also use the graphic below to post on your social media platforms. Please feel free to share this information with your ministry networks and if you have any questions, please call me at...
Read MoreWhy is it so high?
Let’s Talk About the Black Abortion Rate In New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted each year than born alive. As Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination tees up another national debate about reproductive rights, is it too much to ask that abortion’s impact on the black population be part of the discussion? When the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, polling showed that blacks were less likely than whites to support abortion. Sixties-era civil rights activists like Fannie Lou Hamer and Whitney Young had denounced the procedure as a form of genocide. Jesse...
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