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 MoreRosh Hashanah 2018
What Is Rosh Hashanah? The Jewish New Year, anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, a day of judgment and coronation, and sounding of the shofar . . . What: It is the birthday of the universe, the day YHWH created Adam and Eve, and it’s celebrated as the head of the Jewish year. When: The first two days of the Jewish new year, Tishrei 1 and 2, beginning at sundown on the eve of Tishrei 1. Rosh Hashanah 2018 begins at sundown on September 9 and continues through nightfall on September 11. How: Candle lighting in the evenings, festive meals with sweet delicacies during the night and day,...
Read MoreThe Triumph of the Kingdom
Why Do Christians Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles? By: Malcolm Hedding, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, 27 Aug 2018 The yearly celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles [also known as Succot] is one of the three great annual and biblically-required festivals; the other two being Passover and Pentecost. These biblical Feasts have great significance in that they all speak of the glorious redemptive plan of God. Passover teaches us about the Door to the Kingdom of God – the salvation from our sins by the spilled blood of a lamb. This serves as a glorious picture of the death...
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...
Read MoreFrederick Douglass, Fatherhood
Two Hundred Years Later, Frederick Douglass Teaches Us That Fatherhood Still Matters Frederick Douglass, born 200 years ago in 1818, was never completely sure of his father’s identity. All he knew for certain was that his father was a white man who had raped his mother. Yet Douglass would become a loving, devoted father of five, who remained actively involved in the lives of his children and grandchildren for his entire life. Douglass wrote at length about how slaveholders deliberately prevented blacks from forming families and tore them apart when they did form. Douglass noted the irony of...
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