WEDNESDAY
AND
THURSDAY NIGHTS
AT
7:00 P.M.
*Thursday Night Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.
Until further notice!!!!
Monday, April 30, 2012
GLIFE'S SUMMER CAMP LUNCH PLATE FUNDRAISER
LUNCH PLATES
TUESDAY, MAY 8th, 2012
11 AM TO 1:30 PM
$8.00
This week's menu:
SPAGHETTI
CORN ON THE COB
SLAW
GARLIC TOAST
GARLIC TOAST
BEVERAGE
DESSERT
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES
1542 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38107
*Call in orders: (901) 272-7337
Walk-ins Welcome
*****Proceeds To Support G’Life’s Summer Camp
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 29 - MAY 5, 2012
**Announcements must be submitted to Minister Bernestine Sanders no later than Wednesday evening at 10:00 pm @ bernsanders@att.net or 730-0155.
Please contact the church office to select dates for any ministry activity. YOU MUST BE ON THE CALENDAR TO HAVE AN EVENT. Please schedule your event during the times in which the building is open.
If you are in need of a van ride to church on Sunday mornings, please call CaSandra Bradshaw at (901) 859-5922 by Thursday night at 9:00 pm.
The Young Masters are looking for a few good adults who are interested in seeing young people succeed to join the BPC "BOOSTERS & PARENTS CLUB" The BPC will be committed to providing support to the Young Masters as well as all young people within their reach. Please call Rev. Glenn Carter-Ministry Leader 272-7337 or Alonzo Gwynn & Alphonzo Gwynn-Coaches. The Young Masters is a ministry designed to teach young people about the word of God through basketball and caring. Sports and athletics teach kids about the discipline and control needed in everyday life as well as when they are in friendly competition.
Election 2012 is approaching quickly. TN law now requires you to have State/Federal issued ID in order to cast your vote. If you don't have ID, please begin the process now... If you have any questions, please see First Lady Lisa Jones Johnson.
The Klondike Smokey City CDC receives job posting on a regular basis. These job listings will be posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, please contact Quincey Morris at the Klondike Smokey City Resource Center, 901-527-9491.
The new job listings are posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall.
Get Ready for SUGAH Retreat, July 14th Registration begins @ 9:30am Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols, will be our Unity Speakers- "Sisters Gone Wild, Seeking Wisdom"
THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month is "DRESS UP SUNDAY!!!!! Pastor Johnson would like for everyone to DRESS IN THEIR SUNDAY'S BEST!!!!"
SUMMER CAMP FUNDRAISER, LUNCH PLATES, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, 11 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M., $8.00. ALL PLATES INCLUDE: This week you get the choice of Oven fried/baked catfish fillets, cheesy rice & broccoli, and summertime squash, or Baked chicken leg quarters, mashed potatoes w/gravy and English peas, beverage, and dessert. Here at the church *call in orders: (901) 272-7337 and Walk-ins Welcome. Proceeds to support G'Life's Summer Camp.
**Announcements must be submitted to Minister Bernestine Sanders no later than Wednesday evening at 10:00 pm @ bernsanders@att.net or 730-0155.
Please contact the church office to select dates for any ministry activity. YOU MUST BE ON THE CALENDAR TO HAVE AN EVENT. Please schedule your event during the times in which the building is open.
If you are in need of a van ride to church on Sunday mornings, please call CaSandra Bradshaw at (901) 859-5922 by Thursday night at 9:00 pm.
The Young Masters are looking for a few good adults who are interested in seeing young people succeed to join the BPC "BOOSTERS & PARENTS CLUB" The BPC will be committed to providing support to the Young Masters as well as all young people within their reach. Please call Rev. Glenn Carter-Ministry Leader 272-7337 or Alonzo Gwynn & Alphonzo Gwynn-Coaches. The Young Masters is a ministry designed to teach young people about the word of God through basketball and caring. Sports and athletics teach kids about the discipline and control needed in everyday life as well as when they are in friendly competition.
Election 2012 is approaching quickly. TN law now requires you to have State/Federal issued ID in order to cast your vote. If you don't have ID, please begin the process now... If you have any questions, please see First Lady Lisa Jones Johnson.
The Klondike Smokey City CDC receives job posting on a regular basis. These job listings will be posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, please contact Quincey Morris at the Klondike Smokey City Resource Center, 901-527-9491.
The new job listings are posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall.
Get Ready for SUGAH Retreat, July 14th Registration begins @ 9:30am Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols, will be our Unity Speakers- "Sisters Gone Wild, Seeking Wisdom"
THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month is "DRESS UP SUNDAY!!!!! Pastor Johnson would like for everyone to DRESS IN THEIR SUNDAY'S BEST!!!!"
SUMMER CAMP FUNDRAISER, LUNCH PLATES, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, 11 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M., $8.00. ALL PLATES INCLUDE: This week you get the choice of Oven fried/baked catfish fillets, cheesy rice & broccoli, and summertime squash, or Baked chicken leg quarters, mashed potatoes w/gravy and English peas, beverage, and dessert. Here at the church *call in orders: (901) 272-7337 and Walk-ins Welcome. Proceeds to support G'Life's Summer Camp.
Monday, April 23, 2012
GLIFE SUMMER CAMP 2012 LUNCH PLATE FUNDRAISER
LUNCH PLATE
TUESDAY, APRIL 24th ,2012
11 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M.
$8.00
ALL PLATES INCLUDE:
Baked Chicken Leg quarters
Scalloped Potatoes
Broccoli &Cheese
Beverage
Dessert
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES
1542 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38107
*Call in orders: (901) 272-7337
Walk-ins Welcome
*****Proceeds To Support G’Life’s Summer Camp
HISTORIC VIOLENCE MAKE APRIL A BITTERSWEET MONTH
By Milton W. Hinton, Jr.
April, often appreciated as the month we fully transition into spring, can also be one of the most bittersweet months of the year.
Amongst all the earthly beauty and life awakening around us after a winter of muted sunshine and long nights, April can hit like a wave of cold sea water crashing down on us.
Although it has a perception of blossoming like a rose, it is often one hidden in a fisted glove, as historically April is a violent month. The Oklahoma City bombing, and the shootings at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech University were just a few April events.
Many years ago, I walked home one April afternoon after a day in school. On this particular day, the weather was excellent and I remember homework, dinner, and my parents watching the television news broadcast. After the evening news ended, I recall the announcer returning to the air with a “Special Report” informing that the “Negro leader” Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn.
One witness informed us that King was standing on his hotel balcony when “a bullet exploded in his face.” Little did I realize how this single event would impact the world.
Read more here:
AMERICA'S 'ANGRIEST' THEOLOGIAN FACES LYNCHING TREE
By John Blake, CNN
(CNN) - When he was boy growing up in rural Arkansas, James Cone would often stand at his window at night, looking for a sign that his father was still alive.
Cone had reason to worry. He lived in a small, segregated town in the age of Jim Crow. And his father, Charlie Cone, was a marked man.
Charlie Cone wouldn’t answer to any white man who called him “boy.” He only worked for himself, he told his sons, because a black man couldn’t work for a white man and keep his manhood at the same time.
Once, when he was warned that a lynch mob was coming to run him out of his home, he grabbed a shotgun and waited, saying, “Let them come, because some of them will die with me.”
CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories
James Cone knew the risks his father took. So when his father didn’t come home at his usual time in the evenings, he’d stand sentry, looking for the lights from his father’s pickup truck.
“I had heard too much about white people killing black people,” Cone recalled. “When my father would finally make it home safely, I would run and jump into his arms, happy as I could be.”
Read more here:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 22 - APRIL 28, 2012
**Announcements must be submitted to Minister Bernestine Sanders no later than Wednesday evening at 10:00 pm @ bernsanders@att.net or 730-0155.
Please contact the church office to select dates for any ministry activity. YOU MUST BE ON THE CALENDAR TO HAVE AN EVENT. Please schedule your event during the times in which the building is open.
If you are in need of a van ride to church on Sunday mornings, please call CaSandra Hall at (901) 859-5922 by Thursday night at 9:00 pm.
The Young Masters are looking for a few good adults who are interested in seeing young people succeed to join the BPC "BOOSTERS & PARENTS CLUB" The BPC will be committed to providing support to the Young Masters as well as all young people within their reach. Please call Rev. Glenn Carter-Ministry Leader 272-7337 or Alonzo Gwynn & Alphonzo Gwynn-Coaches. The Young Masters is a ministry designed to teach young people about the word of God through basketball and caring. Sports and athletics teach kids about the discipline and control needed in everyday life as well as when they are in friendly competition.
Election 2012 is approaching quickly. TN law now requires you to have State/Federal issued ID in order to cast your vote. If you don't have ID, please begin the process now... If you have any questions, please see First Lady Lisa Jones Johnson.
The Klondike Smokey City CDC receives job posting on a regular basis. These job listings will be posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, please contact Quincey Morris at the Klondike Smokey City Resource Center, 901-527-9491.
The new job listings are posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall.
Get Ready for SUGAH Retreat, July 14th Registration begins @ 9:30am Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols, will be our Unity Speakers- "Sisters Gone Wild, Seeking Wisdom"
THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month is "DRESS UP SUNDAY!!!!! Pastor Johnson would like for everyone to DRESS IN THEIR SUNDAY'S BEST!!!!"
SUMMER CAMP FUNDRAISER, LUNCH PLATES, TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH, 2012, 11 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M., $8.00. ALL PLATES INCLUDE: Baked chicken leg quarters, scalloped potatoes, broccoli & cheese, beverage, and dessert. Here at the church *call in orders: (901) 272-7337 and Walk-ins Welcome. Proceeds to suport G'Life's Summer Camp.
It brings us great pleasure to extend this special invitation to you in joining Pastor Andre E. Johnson and the Gifts of Life Ministries in celebrating our 10 year church anniversary. It has been 10 wonderful years being in the North Memphis community attending to the spiritual needs of the community. Our anniversary banquet will be held on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 2pm at the Doubletree Hotel located on 5069 Sanderlin. The tickets are only $30 but you may also purchase a table for $240. We hope to see many friends and family at this special event. We will be blessed to have the dynamic Rev. Dr. Melvin Charles Smith, senior pastor of Mt Moriah East Baptist Church as our speaker for this occasion. This anniversary celebration is an opportunity to thank God for all of God’s provisions to G’Life over these 10 years. If you are interested in attending, please contact First Lady Lisa Johnson or Deacon Korey Sanders at (901) 272-7337. You can also purchase your ticket here or purchase a table here
Thursday, April 19, 2012
REVISED SUMMER CAMP 2012 FLYER
The Urban Oasis
Presents the:
G’Life Summer Camp
This ten-week camp operates from the theme; “I Am Somebody” and focuses on principles that highlight self-esteem and respect for oneself and others. From the summer camp our aim is to promote what we call a culture of learning that not only engage campers in the arts of music, drama, oratory, poetry, and dance, but it is our hope that we can also promote a desire for learning. Coupled with our scheduled field trips and other activities, we propose to teach by making learning an exciting enterprise.
May 21th –July27th
Monday-Friday from 7:00am-5:30pm (for children 3-15)
The cost is only *$ 50.00 per week per child and includes breakfast, lunch, and a snack.
Gifts of Life Ministries
(Peace Lutheran Church Building
1542 Jackson
For more information on volunteering, sponsoring a child or to make a donation please call 272-7337.
*$25.00 Application Fee/per child
Monday, April 16, 2012
G'LIFE CHOIR AND ROXIE GUNTER SINGERS CONCERT
PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT OUR VERY OWN G'LIFE CHOIR WITH THE ROXIE GUNTER SINGERS IN CONCERT ON SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND AT 4 P.M.
Gifts of Life Ministries
1542 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, TN. 38107
(901) 272-7337--for more info.
Psalm 98:4
King James Version (KJV)
4 "Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise."
Tenth Year Anniversary
Our anniversary banquet will be held on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 2pm at the Doubletree Hotel located on 5069 Sanderlin. The tickets are only $30 but you may also purchase a table for $240. We hope to see many friends and family at this special event. We will be blessed to have the dynamic Rev. Dr. Melvin Charles Smith, senior pastor of Mt Moriah East Baptist Church as our speaker for this occasion.
This anniversary celebration is an opportunity to thank God for all of God’s provisions to G’Life over these 10 years. If you are interested in attending, please contact First Lady Lisa Johnson or Deacon Korey Sanders at (901) 272-7337. You can also purchase your ticket here or purchase a table here
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Gifts of Life Ministries Lecture/Lyceum Series
Summer Camp Starting May 21
This ten-week camp operates from the theme; “I Am Somebody” and focuses on principles that highlight self-esteem and respect for oneself and others. From the summer camp our aim is to promote what we call a culture of learning that not only engage campers in the arts of music, drama, oratory, poetry, and dance, but it is our hope that we can also promote a desire for learning. Coupled with our scheduled field trips and other activities, we propose to teach by making learning an exciting enterprise.
Monday-Friday from 7:00am-5:30pm (for children 3-15)
The cost is only $ 50.00 per week per child and includes breakfast, lunch, and a snack.
To donate to our camp, please click on the donate button below
Monday-Friday from 7:00am-5:30pm (for children 3-15)
The cost is only $ 50.00 per week per child and includes breakfast, lunch, and a snack.
To donate to our camp, please click on the donate button below
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
SUMMER CAMP FUNDRAISER
LUNCH PLATES
TUESDAY, APRIL 17TH ,2012
11 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M.
$8.00
ALL PLATES INCLUDE:
Meatloaf
Mashed potatoes
English peas
Beverage
Dessert
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES
1542 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38107
*Call in orders: (901) 272-7337
Walk-ins Welcome
*****Proceeds To Support G’Life’s Summer Camp
TN Legislators Fail to Protect Your Right to Vote
From Mary Mancini, TN Citizen Action
LEGISLATORS FAIL TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE
Earlier this afternoon, after failing in the Tennessee Senate several weeks ago, the bill to repeal the photo ID to vote law died in the Tennessee House. Following the committee meeting, we released the following statement:
“We’re extremely disappointed that instead of protecting the fundamental right to vote guaranteed us - not once, but twice - by the Tennessee Constitution, Republicans are taking it away,” said Mary Mancini, executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, “The idea of ‘voter fraud’ is a fraud and they have repeatedly refused to present evidence to the contrary. Here's what's really going on: Republican politicians all over the country are unnecessarily rewriting our election laws to keep students, people of color, the working poor, and seniors from voting against them. And they're manufacturing a problem to explain it away.
“The right to vote is a fundamental American right. GOP-led barriers to voting are unnecessary and extraordinarily harmful to our democratic process. We've never solved anything in this country with less democracy, and we still can’t.”
WHAT'S NEXT?
The people of Tennessee could use your help this year.
The right to vote and choose our leaders is at the heart of what it means to be an American, but conservatives are working to rewrite our laws so it's harder for students, people of color, the working poor, and seniors to vote. Won't you volunteer to make sure that any Tennessean who wants to can exercise this fundamental freedom come November?
Click Here to Volunteer
We will be working all across the state to:
*Register voters
*Educate Tennesseans about the new photo ID to vote law
*Help people to get their photo ID
Please signup below and indicate how you would like to help.
Volunteer with Tennessee Citizen Action!
Questions? Call 615-736-6040 or email mary@tnca.org.
LEGISLATORS FAIL TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE
Earlier this afternoon, after failing in the Tennessee Senate several weeks ago, the bill to repeal the photo ID to vote law died in the Tennessee House. Following the committee meeting, we released the following statement:
“We’re extremely disappointed that instead of protecting the fundamental right to vote guaranteed us - not once, but twice - by the Tennessee Constitution, Republicans are taking it away,” said Mary Mancini, executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, “The idea of ‘voter fraud’ is a fraud and they have repeatedly refused to present evidence to the contrary. Here's what's really going on: Republican politicians all over the country are unnecessarily rewriting our election laws to keep students, people of color, the working poor, and seniors from voting against them. And they're manufacturing a problem to explain it away.
“The right to vote is a fundamental American right. GOP-led barriers to voting are unnecessary and extraordinarily harmful to our democratic process. We've never solved anything in this country with less democracy, and we still can’t.”
WHAT'S NEXT?
The people of Tennessee could use your help this year.
The right to vote and choose our leaders is at the heart of what it means to be an American, but conservatives are working to rewrite our laws so it's harder for students, people of color, the working poor, and seniors to vote. Won't you volunteer to make sure that any Tennessean who wants to can exercise this fundamental freedom come November?
Click Here to Volunteer
We will be working all across the state to:
*Register voters
*Educate Tennesseans about the new photo ID to vote law
*Help people to get their photo ID
Please signup below and indicate how you would like to help.
Volunteer with Tennessee Citizen Action!
Questions? Call 615-736-6040 or email mary@tnca.org.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Finding And Curating The Roots Of Soul Music
BY ED WARD
Some years back, I was driving across the South with a German friend, leaving early Sunday morning from Athens, Ga., and heading to Louisiana. I turned on the radio and found a black church service in progress, and a woman with a remarkable voice singing. "Who's that?" my friend asked. I told him I had no idea. "But with a voice like that, she must be famous," he said. Some miles down the road, when the station had faded out, he still didn't believe me."
Of course, that's no reason to believe that she didn't make a record. Mike McGonigal, whose literary magazine Yeti mixes indie rock and literature, has been collecting gospel 45s on vanity and tiny independent labels for years, and in his spare time he's put out Fire in My Bones and This May Be My Last Time Singing, two triple-disc sets of amazing stuff from his collection. Some of it, like the Mississippi Nightingales' "Don't Let Him Ride," is fairly conventional, but some of it isn't.
Elder Roma Wilson and Family were a man and his three sons, all four of them playing harmonicas, recorded in 1948 at a Detroit record store on the track "Better Get Ready." They weren't even informed that their record had been released until McGonigal contacted them.
Most of these recordings are fairly obscure, but not all of them. Elder Beck's "Rock and Roll Sermon" has long been snickered over as a prime example of a preacher preaching against something that his band knows only too well. For a denunciation of rock 'n' roll, it rocks; in fact, rocking is all over these collections. Witness Little Ax and the Golden Echoes on the track "So Soon."
Read more here:
Some years back, I was driving across the South with a German friend, leaving early Sunday morning from Athens, Ga., and heading to Louisiana. I turned on the radio and found a black church service in progress, and a woman with a remarkable voice singing. "Who's that?" my friend asked. I told him I had no idea. "But with a voice like that, she must be famous," he said. Some miles down the road, when the station had faded out, he still didn't believe me."
Of course, that's no reason to believe that she didn't make a record. Mike McGonigal, whose literary magazine Yeti mixes indie rock and literature, has been collecting gospel 45s on vanity and tiny independent labels for years, and in his spare time he's put out Fire in My Bones and This May Be My Last Time Singing, two triple-disc sets of amazing stuff from his collection. Some of it, like the Mississippi Nightingales' "Don't Let Him Ride," is fairly conventional, but some of it isn't.
Elder Roma Wilson and Family were a man and his three sons, all four of them playing harmonicas, recorded in 1948 at a Detroit record store on the track "Better Get Ready." They weren't even informed that their record had been released until McGonigal contacted them.
Most of these recordings are fairly obscure, but not all of them. Elder Beck's "Rock and Roll Sermon" has long been snickered over as a prime example of a preacher preaching against something that his band knows only too well. For a denunciation of rock 'n' roll, it rocks; in fact, rocking is all over these collections. Witness Little Ax and the Golden Echoes on the track "So Soon."
Read more here:
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES 10th ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND
Our 10th Anniversary Weekend will be Friday, April 27th - Sunday, April 29th, 2012. In the spirit of our theme: Perseverance, Character, and Hope: The Making of a 10 Year Legacy, we have a great weekend of events planned. There will be more details to come on the events scheduled for the 27th and 28th. However, on Sunday, April 29th, at 2 p.m., we will have our 10th Anniversary Banquet at the Doubletree Hotel located at 5069 Sanderlin. The cost of the tickets for this semi-formal event is $30.00 per person. Tickets can be purchased no later than, Sunday, April 22nd. Please make all checks payable to Gifts of Life Ministries. Please come out and support this event and celebrate our 10th anniversary. If you have any questions or need tickets, please see any of these Anniversary Committee members: First Lady Lisa Johnson, Deacon Korey Sanders, Rev. Lucian Hill, Dean Dorothy Hill, Min. Carol Seldon, Min. Bernestine Sanders, DIT CaSandra Bradshaw, Knyreessa Hardiman,Keanna Thomas, Stephon Wilson, Ivory Bryant, and Rev. Alma Brown.
To purchase your ticket and support the ten year ministry of Gifts of Life Ministries, click below
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 8 - APRIL 14, 2012
**Announcements must be submitted to Minister Bernestine Sanders no later than Wednesday evening at 10:00 pm @ bernsanders@att.net or 730-0155.
Please contact the church office to select dates for any ministry activity. YOU MUST BE ON THE CALENDAR TO HAVE AN EVENT. Please schedule your event during the times in which the building is open.
If you are in need of a van ride to church on Sunday mornings, please call CaSandra Bradshaw at (901) 859-5922 by Thursday night at 9:00 pm.
The Young Masters are looking for a few good adults who are interested in seeing young people succeed to join the BPC "BOOSTERS & PARENTS CLUB" The BPC will be committed to providing support to the Young Masters as well as all young people within their reach. Please call Rev. Glenn Carter-Ministry Leader 272-7337 or Alonzo Gwynn & Alphonzo Gwynn-Coaches. The Young Masters is a ministry designed to teach young people about the word of God through basketball and caring. Sports and athletics teach kids about the discipline and control needed in everyday life as well as when they are in friendly competition.
Election 2012 is approaching quickly. TN law now requires you to have State/Federal issued ID in order to cast your vote. If you don't have ID, please begin the process now... If you have any questions, please see First Lady Lisa Jones Johnson.
The Klondike Smokey City CDC receives job posting on a regular basis. These job listings will be posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, please contact Quincey Morris at the Klondike Smokey City Resource Center, 901-527-9491.
The new job listings are posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall.
Get Ready for SUGAH Retreat, July 14th Registration begins @ 9:30am Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols, will be our Unity Speakers- "Sisters Gone Wild, Seeking Wisdom"
THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month is "DRESS UP SUNDAY!!!!! Pastor Johnson would like for everyone to DRESS IN THEIR SUNDAY'S BEST!!!!"
Our very own G'Life Choir with the Roxie Gunter Singers will be in concert on Sunday, April 22, 2012 @ 4 p.m. Please come out and show your support.
**Announcements must be submitted to Minister Bernestine Sanders no later than Wednesday evening at 10:00 pm @ bernsanders@att.net or 730-0155.
Please contact the church office to select dates for any ministry activity. YOU MUST BE ON THE CALENDAR TO HAVE AN EVENT. Please schedule your event during the times in which the building is open.
If you are in need of a van ride to church on Sunday mornings, please call CaSandra Bradshaw at (901) 859-5922 by Thursday night at 9:00 pm.
The Young Masters are looking for a few good adults who are interested in seeing young people succeed to join the BPC "BOOSTERS & PARENTS CLUB" The BPC will be committed to providing support to the Young Masters as well as all young people within their reach. Please call Rev. Glenn Carter-Ministry Leader 272-7337 or Alonzo Gwynn & Alphonzo Gwynn-Coaches. The Young Masters is a ministry designed to teach young people about the word of God through basketball and caring. Sports and athletics teach kids about the discipline and control needed in everyday life as well as when they are in friendly competition.
Election 2012 is approaching quickly. TN law now requires you to have State/Federal issued ID in order to cast your vote. If you don't have ID, please begin the process now... If you have any questions, please see First Lady Lisa Jones Johnson.
The Klondike Smokey City CDC receives job posting on a regular basis. These job listings will be posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, please contact Quincey Morris at the Klondike Smokey City Resource Center, 901-527-9491.
The new job listings are posted on the Bulletin Board in the Fellowship Hall.
Get Ready for SUGAH Retreat, July 14th Registration begins @ 9:30am Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols, will be our Unity Speakers- "Sisters Gone Wild, Seeking Wisdom"
THE FIRST SUNDAY of every month is "DRESS UP SUNDAY!!!!! Pastor Johnson would like for everyone to DRESS IN THEIR SUNDAY'S BEST!!!!"
Our very own G'Life Choir with the Roxie Gunter Singers will be in concert on Sunday, April 22, 2012 @ 4 p.m. Please come out and show your support.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Dick Gregory on Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and parallels with Atlanta’s missing and murdered children
By Harold Michael Harvey
Mounting evidence has begun to disprove the assertions of George Zimmerman in his version of what happened when he fired a hand gun into the chest of Trayvon Martin. The shot mortally wounded Martin and speculation abounds over the reason why Zimmerman would shoot an unarmed black teenager.
Comedian and humanist Dick Gregory told Allvoices in an exclusive interview in Sanford, Florida, last week that he believes George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin as an act to gain “admittance into some paramilitary or semi-police fraternal order.”
When asked about his comment Mr. Gregory said, “It’s nothing new. They have been killing black boys for a long time.”
Gregory has been a longtime supporter of the theory advanced by James Baldwin in Baldwin’s 1985 essay, “The evidence of things not seen,” that some racist- based group was behind the Atlanta missing and murdered children crisis that occurred in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. Atlanta authorities arrested and convicted Wayne Williams, a black music promoter and independent journalist, for two of the adults who had been murdered and they closed the book on 23 of 28 other murders with the belief that Wayne Williams had acted alone in those cases as well.
Baldwin contended that as late as the summer of 1981 the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) was investigating a Klansman named George Sanders. An informant had told police Sanders stated the killer had “…wiped out a thousand future generations of Niggers.” (See AP, August 5, 2005).
The informant later testified in court that Sanders told him, “The KKK was creating an uprising among the blacks; that they were killing the children, and that they are going to do one each month until things blow up.”
Things were about to blow up when a day care center which catered to black children literally exploded. Atlanta’s black community, frustrated with no end to the disappearance and murder of its children in sight became angry. The city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, reported that the day care center’s boiler had explored. He asked the city to remain calm, offered a million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the missing and murdered children and within weeks Wayne Williams had been targeted for arrest. To this day no one has come forward to claim the million-dollar reward.
Read more here
Mounting evidence has begun to disprove the assertions of George Zimmerman in his version of what happened when he fired a hand gun into the chest of Trayvon Martin. The shot mortally wounded Martin and speculation abounds over the reason why Zimmerman would shoot an unarmed black teenager.
Comedian and humanist Dick Gregory told Allvoices in an exclusive interview in Sanford, Florida, last week that he believes George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin as an act to gain “admittance into some paramilitary or semi-police fraternal order.”
When asked about his comment Mr. Gregory said, “It’s nothing new. They have been killing black boys for a long time.”
Gregory has been a longtime supporter of the theory advanced by James Baldwin in Baldwin’s 1985 essay, “The evidence of things not seen,” that some racist- based group was behind the Atlanta missing and murdered children crisis that occurred in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. Atlanta authorities arrested and convicted Wayne Williams, a black music promoter and independent journalist, for two of the adults who had been murdered and they closed the book on 23 of 28 other murders with the belief that Wayne Williams had acted alone in those cases as well.
Baldwin contended that as late as the summer of 1981 the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) was investigating a Klansman named George Sanders. An informant had told police Sanders stated the killer had “…wiped out a thousand future generations of Niggers.” (See AP, August 5, 2005).
The informant later testified in court that Sanders told him, “The KKK was creating an uprising among the blacks; that they were killing the children, and that they are going to do one each month until things blow up.”
Things were about to blow up when a day care center which catered to black children literally exploded. Atlanta’s black community, frustrated with no end to the disappearance and murder of its children in sight became angry. The city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, reported that the day care center’s boiler had explored. He asked the city to remain calm, offered a million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the missing and murdered children and within weeks Wayne Williams had been targeted for arrest. To this day no one has come forward to claim the million-dollar reward.
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