SOUL FOOD SUNDAY

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PRESENTS

“SOUL FOOD SUNDAY”

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2013

11 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M.

$10.00 PLATES

THE MENU:

TURKEY & DRESSING (or)

BAKED HAM & DRESSING

GREENS

POTATO SALAD

CORN-ON-THE COB

CORNBREAD MUFFINS

DESSERT

BEVERAGE

Gifts of Life Ministries

1542 Jackson Avenue

Memphis, TN. 38107

*CALL IN ORDERS: (901) 644-6668/ (901) 334-6469

*WALK- IN ORDERS WELCOME!!!!

******PLEASE SIGN SIGN-UP BEFORE OCT. 13TH******

LUNCHTIME TUESDAYS

LUNCH PLATE SALE

 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013

11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

$10.00

THIS WEEK'S MENU:

Pulled Pork B-B-Q Sandwich

Baked Beans

Slaw

Potato Salad

Corn-on-the-Cob

Chips

Beverage

Dessert

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

1542 JACKSON AVENUE

MEMPHIS, TN. 38107

*CALL IN ORDERS: (901) 272-7337/(901) 644-6668

WALK-INS WELCOME!!!!!!

FALL FASHION EXTRAVAGANZA

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES 

PRESENTS

A

FALL 

FEATURING FUSION

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2013

4:00 P.M.

Donation : $10 for Adults

$5 for children (4-12)

3 and under FREE

Refreshments

           Live Entertainment

                      Door Prizes

1542 Jackson Avenue

Memphis, TN. 38107

(901) 272-7337

NEW WORSHIPPING COMMUNITY LAUNCH

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

(THE URBAN OASIS)

will start a new worshipping community

on Sundays, starting October 6, 2013!!!!

at

CARITAS VILLAGE

2509 Harvard Avenue

Memphis, Tennessee 38112

LUNCHTIME TUESDAYS

LUNCH PLATE SALE

STARTING THIS TUESDAY, 

OCTOBER 1, 2013

11:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

COST: $10.00

THIS WEEKS MENU:

SMOTHERED OR FRIED PORK STEAK

MASHED POTATOES W/GRAVY

TURNIP GREENS

CORN-ON-THE-COB

CORNBREAD MUFFINS

BEVERAGE

DESSERT

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

1542 JACKSON AVENUE

MEMPHIS, TN. 38107

*CALL IN ORDERS: (901) 272-7337

 or (901) 644-6668

WALK-INS WELCOME!!!!!!

RECOVERY MONTH WORSHIP SERVICE

National Recovery Month spreads the positive message

that Behavioral Health is essential to overall health, 

prevention works, treatment is effective, 

people CAN and DO recover.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Gifts of Life Ministries

1542 Jackson Avenue

Memphis, TN. 38107

(901) 272-7337

**Minister Linda Barnes will preach her first sermon.

COME JOIN US AND ENJOY

FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP!!!!

(DONATIONS ACCEPTED)

TEACHER & SECRETARY APPRECIATION PROGRAM

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

is hosting a 

SPECIAL CELEBRATION.......

THE 

TEACHER AND SECRETARY APPRECIATION PROGRAM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

10:15 A.M. ( during Power Hour)

It’s that time of year again!!!!!  Our teachers and secretaries are starting to reflect on the year that was – all of the good times, the hard times, and the crazy times with POWER HOUR that they got to see, teach, and know once a week, every week for one full year. 

It's a natural time to show our teachers and secretaries that we do, indeed, appreciate all of the hard work, planning, and time commitment that they have put in to POWER HOUR!!!!

DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY

"THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!!!!!"

NETTERS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

FALL 

The Netters Professorship and the Elders of Education will host a FALL REVIVAL starting 9-23-13 to 9-25-13. 

Monday, September 23, 2013

Time: 7:00pm

Where:  Mt. Moriah- East Baptist Church

1248 Haynes St, Memphis, TN 38114

Phone:(901) 743-5600

Speakers for the week include:

Monday: Rev. Charles Elliott 

Pastor of Golden United Methodist Church.

Tuesday: Rev. Bonnie Oliver Brandon

 Associate pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Wednesday: Rev. Melvin Watkins

 Co-pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. 

***Proceeds from the revival will go to support the Netters Certificate Program!!!!!!!

CELEBRATION OF LIFE

ORGAN DONOR DRIVE

Join us Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6pm as we celebrate the "Gift of Life" and have an Organ Donor Drive in the name of Ms. Kimberly Fitch!!!! Her liver recipient Candace Flynt will be in the city and is going to tell her story... join us and consider being a gift of life... don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them here!!! 

 Gifts of Life Ministries
 1542 Jackson Avenue
Memphis, TN 38107

(901) 272-7337

See Ms. Helen Lewis or First Lady Lisa Johnson for more information.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

G'LIFE'S SEPTEMBER ACTIVITIES

September 21, 2013

CHOSEN VESSELS MINISTRIES

WOMEN'S GATHERING 

 @ Caritas Village, 2509 Harvard Avenue, Memphis, TN 38112

(901) 327-5246

(11 a.m to 1 p.m.). See Min. Linda Barnes for more details.

September 23, 2013

CELEBRATION OF LIFE (ORGAN DONOR DRIVE)

Gifts of Life Ministries, 1542 Jackson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38107

(901) 272-7337

(6 p.m.) See Ms. Helen Lewis or First Lady Lisa Johnson

The Netters Professorship and the Elders of Education will host a fall revival starting 9-23-13 to 9-25-13. 

Monday, September 23, 2013

Time: 7:00pm

Where:  Mt. Moriah- East Baptist Church

1248 Haynes St, Memphis, TN 38114

Phone:(901) 743-5600

Speakers for the week include:

Monday: Rev. Charles Elliott, pastor of Golden United Methodist Church.

Tuesday: Rev. Bonnie Oliver Brandon, associate pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Wednesday: Rev. Melvin Watkins, co-pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. 

***Proceeds from the revival will go to support the Netters Certificate Program.

September 29, 2013

Teacher & Secretary Appreciation Program

During Power Hour

RECOVERY MONTH WORSHIP SERVICE

Gifts of Life Ministries

1542 Jackson Avenue

Memphis, TN. 38107

Time: 3:00 p.m

*Min. Linda Barnes will preach her first sermon.

*See Min. Linda Barnes for more information.

September is also:

RECOMMITMENT/REDEDICATION MONTH 

@ Gifts of Life Ministries

Work on inviting people you know and people you don't know!!!

Faith without works......IS DEAD!!

"FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM"

BLESS OUR SCHOOLS SUNDAY

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

CHURCHES WORLDWIDE
Praying for Children & Schools
Every third Sunday of September, churches around the world will honor educators in their congregations by praying for local schools, staff, and students.

BLESS OUR SCHOOLS through prayer, please pray for.....

STUDENTS
Pray Christians students will stand firm in their faith, showing God's love on their campus so many will come to Christ this school year.

STAFF
Pray for unity and high moral standards among the teachers, administration, school board and support staff, that all decisions will be based on biblical values, and that God will strengthen, refresh and bless the Christians serving in our schools.

SAFETY
Pray that God's hand of protection will be upon the students, school and staff, that any plans for evil will be quickly thwarted.




Sponsored by Moms in Prayer International
www.MomsInPrayer.org

SUNDAY NIGHT POWER HOUR

GIFTS OF LIFE MINISTRIES

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU 

TO

EVENING  

G-Life Sunday Night Power Hour

September 8, 2013

6:00 p.m.

THEME: "WE CAN RELY ON GOD!!!!"

2nd Samuel 5:7 /Psalms 37

USE THE POWER OF GOD!

God is the greatest POWER SOURCE in the universe. And it is GOD'S power — the power of the Holy Spirit — which moves great WORK forward. Each member has the responsibility of DRAWING ON THAT POWER for the good of the entire WORK. ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART?

PASTOR JOHNSON LECTURES AT 50TH YR. MARCH ON WASHINGTON CELEBRATION

R3 Editor Offers Lecture at 

African American Civil War Museum

R3 Editor Dr. Andre E. Johnson will give a lecture on August 23, 2013 at 7:00 pm as part of the 50th year March on Washington celebration at the African American Civil War Museum located at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW in Washington DC. The lecture, "Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and Reflections on the 50th year Anniversary of the March on Washington," will examine Turner's 1913 reflection of the Emancipation Proclamation and point towards the March on Washington that would happen 50 years later. After the lecture, Dr. Johnson will sign copies of his book, The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition.  The event is free and open to the public. 

Pastor Johnson in Revival at Upper Canaan MB Church

Bio of Rev. Dr. Andre Johnson

Rev. Dr. Andre Johnson is the pastor of Gifts of Life Ministries, The Urban Oasis, located at 1542 Jackson. As a called-centered, mission group oriented, servant leadership church, pastor Johnson leads a congregation that last year served over 5,000 meals, clothed over 150 persons, counseled over 60 individuals and families, and visited many sick and incarcerated people. He was born and raised in Memphis, Tenn. and is married to Lisa who is a graduate of the University of Memphis and currently works as a paralegal. 

                                                                               
He serves in the department of Christianity and Culture as the Dr. James L. Netters Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Religion and African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary. He teaches classes in contextualized ministry, prophetic rhetoric, black church, African American theology, rhetoric and religion, pulpit rhetoric, race, and hip hop theology. Dr. Johnson also serves as the Director of the Netters Certificate Program in Ministry. In addition to his work at G'Life and Memphis Theology Seminary, he also serves as an instructor in Communications and African American Studies at the University of Memphis.

Dr. Johnson attended the University of Tennessee at Martin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Communications. He graduated from Memphis Theological Seminary where he took the Masters of Divinity degree and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communications at the University of Memphis. His dissertation, "The Prophetic Oratory of Henry McNeal Turner," was under the direction of Michael C. Leff. He is currently editing the works of Henry McNeal Turner under the title The Literary Archive of Henry McNeal Turner. He has published two volumes in the series, "An African American Pastor Before and During the American Civil War," Volume 1 (2010) and Volume 2, the "Chaplain Letters" (2012). The third volume, "An African American Pastor During Reconstruction" is due for publication in 2013.  

In addition to collecting of Turner writings, Dr. Johnson has just published The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition (2012). He is also editing a collection of essays on hip hop and spirituality titled, Urban God Talk: Rap, Religion, and a Spirituality of Hip Hop with Lexington Books.

Dr. Johnson has presented academic papers at national, regional, and state conferences winning awards at each level and has published essays in the Memphis Theological Seminary Journal and the Black Theology Journal. The Religious Communication Association recently awarded Dr. Johnson their TopArticle Award for 2011 for his article titled, "The Prophetic Persona of James Cone and the Rhetorical Theology of Black Theology." He currently serves as President of the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association and holds membership in several national, regional and state Associations in the areas of Communication, African American and Religious Studies. He is also the editor of the popular Rhetoric Race and Religion blog. In addition, you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook

When:      AUGUST 7-9, 2013

Where:    UPPER CANAAN  MB CHURCH  

Address:  9090 U S HWY. 51

                 Millington, Tennessee

Time:      7:00 P.M.  (Each Night)

S.U.G.A.H. RETREAT (Saturday, July 20th, 2013 @ 4 pm)

COME AND EXPERIENCE

"THE SWEETNESS OF GOD"

at S.U.G.A.H. Retreat

(God's Extravagant Grace)

Saturday, July 20th, 2013 @ 4 P.M.

Gifts of Life Ministries

Rev. Dr. Andre Johnson, Senior Pastor

1542 Jackson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38107

For more information contact:

Rev. Alma Brown

almabrown82@yahoo.com

(901) 644-5127