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Betty J. Shepard
Ministry Leader
Welcome to Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church's
Family Support
Ministry. Our mission is to serve God by providing
support and encouragement to our Emmanuel family. Our objective
is to strengthen our church family by effecting change in the
everyday lives of people by providing counseling and education
in wellness, family relationships and personal finance.
Welcome!
Our discussion of
The
Five Love Languages continues every third
Thursday from January 15 thru April 16, 2009. Please contact
Rev. Savannah Jackson if you’re interested in participating in
this discussion. The first group discussion will be an overview;
so if you haven’t yet begun to read, don’t worry!
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This Month |
Wellness
Book Club: The Secret Life of Bees
The Health And Wellness Book Club Begins
30 Million Steps To March
Get stepping to a healthier you!
Article Of The Month
Walking The Road They Paved
What Our Civil Rights Cost Us
Healthy Family Relationships
The Five Love Languages
Cultivating Relationships through Commitment and
Communication
Copies Available Now! Discussion
Group Begins January 15th
Family
A Meditation On Making Important Choices
Financial Freedom
Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace
University
Excerpts From This Award-Winning Course
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Wellness
TEAM LEAD: SISTER ADRIENNE McMILLIAN |
The Secret Life Of Bees
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The Health and Wellness Book Club will have their first meeting
Friday, January 9, 2009 at Adrienne McMillan's home.
Contact us for
directions. The book club will be reviewing Chapters 1-10 of
The Secret Life Of Bees,
but you are welcome to attend even if you have not read the book
or completed the assignment.
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine”—
Proverbs 17:22
30 Million Steps To March
LEARN ABOUT 30 MILLION STEPS
Thanks to the 60 plus persons who signed
up and are stepping!
Hello Steppers!
We have almost reached our goal! Thus far you have contributed
28,075,315 steps towards the goal of 30 Million. Final numbers
are due; and we will be having a closing event on March 7, 2009
at 10:00am in the Fellowship Hall. Please be sure and attend!
The high steppers for this month are:
Helen Chapman - 557,214
Kim Fly-Finch - 467,780
Carrie Sullivan - 370,484
The most improved stepper was Hattie Richardson. She went from
31,100 in December to 115,282 in January.
The scripture for this month is:
Romans 8:31:
“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us,
who can be against us?”
If you have not reported your steps for the month of December
please
e-mail them to Sherrie Thomas
by Sunday, February 15th.
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Average steps a day =10,000 (without exercise)
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7 days in a week x 10,000 steps = 70,000 steps a week
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2000 Steps = 1 mile
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70,000 steps divided by 2000 steps =35 miles
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Average miles per week =35 miles
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35miles x 4.333 =152 miles a month
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152miles x 6 months =909 miles (1,819,860 steps) per
person
Thanks to the 60 plus persons who signed up and are ready to get
to stepping.
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Article Of The Month |
Walking The Road They Paved
What Our
Civil Rights Cost Us by Sherrea
Elliott
In the
spirit of the New Year,
with a new president, and in observance of
Black History Month, it is important that we think about
sacrifice. It is rare that I think about the sacrifices others
have made for me, but when I do, it is overwhelming. Men like
James Meredith, the first African-American student at the
University of Mississippi, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young,
Georgia Congressman John Lewis and President Barack Obama do not
know me, yet they’ve all risked their lives to help me. The
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. died so that I could have a
fair shot in this world, so that anyone and everyone could have
the opportunity to be something great. It was not until the
first Sunday of the month, during communion or after I myself
made some sort of sacrifice that the word “sacrifice” came to
mind.
Recently I received a college letter,
“Dear Sherrea: Congratulations on your recent acceptance.”
As I read the remaining part of the acceptance letter I became
teary eyed; a feeling of, “I made it,” swept over me and that
feeling reminded me of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he referred
to the Bible and said, “… we as a people will get to the
promised land.” Although Moses was referring to the land God
promised the people of Egypt, Martin Luther King, Jr. was
referring to a time when Black men and white men, Jews and
Gentiles could get together, a time when everyone would have
equal opportunity and are not judged by the color of their skin.
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You may
say I’m late because it is 2009
 and everyone has had equal opportunity for a long time, but it
was not until now—the realization of “I made it!” overcoming
me—that I am beginning to understand the many opportunities that
would not have been available had others not made sacrifices for
me.
As glasses clinked together after toasts, the congratulations
poured from my family. I sipped sparkling Welch’s Grape juice,
not giving a single thought to the sacrifices others made for me
and for future generations. The sad thing is not that I failed
to think of the sacrifices people made, but that, when I began
to researching this piece, my 15-year old sister was filled with
questions of who is he? Who is she? And why are they important?
I was saddened by how unaware she was of the people who
sacrificed so much for us and how much more I had to research
because I did not know the answers to her questions. And I too
had questions. It is amazing, how easily we can forget about
lives lost and things others have sacrificed for us.
By no means am I saying we should be extremist in knowing every
detail of every historical figure, nor am I saying we should
over-analyze those sacrifices that were made for us. I am
saying, life is filled with opportunities presented through or
because of tremendous sacrifices. It is vital that we realize
that there are people who have paved the way for us and for
those to come.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. said, in his I Have A Dream speech,
“We must not walk alone. As we walk, we must make a pledge that
we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.” Everyone must
remember that we have not walked this life alone. We should not
think we did all the work and that it is we who have made things
happen for ourselves. We, as a people, have been walking with
our past to our future. In saying that I mean, every day that we
are allowed to go to the school of our choice, we walk with our
past. In being accepted to the college of our choice, we are
walking with our past because civil rights leaders like The
Little Rock Nine, James Meredith, and Martin Luther King, Jr
risked their lives and freedoms to pave the way for us.
As you walk, do not forget to stop and be grateful for the
sacrifices people have made for you. Like Martin Luther King
said, “We shall always march ahead.” But as you march ahead. do
not forget what part of your past walked first, making it
possible for you to walk into the promised land.
Sherrea Elliott
8 February 2009
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