Author: Asondra StarN'air Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098009045 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 290
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Listen up, everybody out there, especially if you are a parent. Our youth is in real big trouble! All across America, we are losing young black men due to drug trafficking and street violence. Many of them are lucky to see their eighteenth birthday. And today more and more African-American males are being gunned down in the streets while their schools and mothers weep! Souls crying out RIP! Along with that, and very sad too, prisons nationwide are full of young black men who decided to take the streets to sell drugs, become thugs, carry guns, and commit crimes. God's watching. He's not blind. Stop the madness! Your lives matter! We also have "rappers" and rapists too, exploiting our black female queens with their lewd jokes and violent rhymes. "Stop the music!" God's watching! Some too are behind bars doing time. Last but not least, now we have young women and girls caught up in the criminal system. That's right, for the first time in history, females are entering the prison system in record numbers doing all kinds of things, following the wrong crowd. "For crying out loud," there is a much better way to live your life today. Young America, no matter creed or color, your life matters! Listen, there is another way! Streets Out, God and Education In: That's How We Do It, That's How We Win will help set you on a righteous path. All you have to do is "make that change" and welcome God in! This book is for all those young folks out there, the millennials who need guidance, and to all those who want a second chance at success! I am here to tell you, "Your life matters!"
Author: Francis Collins Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1847396151 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
Author: Apostle Stephanie B. Scruggs Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662461879 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 210
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This is a survival story of a single mother having thirteen children. The father runs off and leaves. She has no high school diploma and no college degree. After the father disappears and leaves her for dead, she gets well and picks herself up. We are born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois. She goes downtown and registers to take college courses, and she starts working on her GED. She gets her GED, and she completes an associate’s degree in auto mechanics. Then she takes a part-time job at the little corner store after school. So they are left to take care of the children—cook, clean, and make sure the kids do their homework. It is tough because we are children ourselves. But we make it through the hardest times of our lives. Out of thirteen children, eleven graduate and two refuse to go. Mother graduates again with a degree in teaching. Now she is able to get off food stamps and welfare. She has a job in teaching, and now she is able to support the last six kids on a salary. Father shows back up when the last six are in high school. Mother refuses to take him back after he tried to kill her. It is a long, hard journey. But we make it through the toughest of times. I have no children of my own, but I raised a niece and a nephew and two more adopted children in Columbus, Ohio. I have been in ministry for forty-three years. I drive buses and trucks for thirty-four years. I used to take the children on the bus with me and allowed them to see what is going to happen to them if they don’t go to school and get an education. They see me get cursed out many times when I have to tell people what the fare is. This is what takes place when you don’t have God and education.
Author: But God, His Story in the lives of Reverend Roosevelt Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 294
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This is the story of Reverend Roosevelt Matthews and his beloved wife, Mary, whose work saved many in one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side. But as Roosevelt emphasizes, it's not his story but God's story. In 1952, Roosevelt and Mary came to Chicago from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, as part of the Great Migration of six million Southern Blacks. Shortly after they married, Mary became a sixth-grade Chicago Public School teacher at Faraday Elementary where she taught for thirty years. With his teaching degree and certificate in hand, Roosevelt headed out to the Chicago Board of Education to be assigned the school he would teach in. But God had other ideas. As he walked down his front steps, he saw troubled youth in the street where gangs and drugs were prevalent. He suddenly came to an abrupt halt; struck with the Lord's call to help these young people. Forging a career as a schoolteacher, Roosevelt founded the Albany Youth Center and Albany Baptist Church, which he and Mary ran for the next forty-five years. As one youth center attendee stated, "The gangs in the area did not bother the kids who attended the youth center. They respected the efforts of Reverend Matthews and his wife to make the life of those kids better." With the violence and racism in our country today, the work of Roosevelt and Mary is a big part of the solution. This book documents the "But God" moments where the Lord provided their needs: But God, when Roosevelt went to buy a defunct factory as a place to put his youth center's outdoor basketball court, the owner looked him in the face and said, "I'd rather burn the factory down than sell it to an N-word". A few months later, Dr. King was assassinated and in the resulting riots the factory was burned to the ground. The factory then became property of the City of Chicago and sold to Roosevelt for a much lower price. But God, teaching Interracial friendship by living in each other's homes, Roosevelt established the Friendship Outreach program between white churches and Albany Baptist Church in 1972. White children came to live with Black families on Chicago's West Side and vice versa. In 2018, one of the original exchange students from Minnesota returned to Albany Church with her own children, continuing this wonderful long-term friendship. But God, Mary got the smooth transition she prayed for after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She never suffered from the ravages of the disease. Looking as beautiful as ever, she played piano in church just three days before she passed from her beloved Roosevelt's loving arms to God's kingdom. But God, as Roosevelt said, "The Lord directed such fine people to help us along the way". One was "Mother" Vera Stephens, who taught Roosevelt and Mary child evangelism. Vera later felt the call to go to Liberia, where she established the Bethesda Christian Mission School that is still inspiring the lives of many children today. In 2011, "Mother" Stephens was posthumously honored for her work by both the president and vice president of Liberia. But God, while Mary and Roosevelt were not able to have biological children, many former pupils, attributing much of their success to "Mom" and "Dad," still call, send letters, and emails. Several have become Bible teachers and ministers themselves while others include a college president and a corporate executive.
Author: Joseph Roberts Publisher: ISBN: 9781956134070 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This heartfelt true story, takes you on a journey through the lives of a teenage mother and her beloved son, who was conceived by way of an affair with a married man. Together they form an unbreakable bond, while bearing witness to God's grace and mercy creating pathways to victory that surpass human understanding.
Author: Joseph T. Reese Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426951086 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 82
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What comes to your mind when a person knowingly or unknowingly walks up to you and says, I got something I want you to read. In simple language, do you take the time to envision their expression, or do you shun the idea that someone else is trying to stuff an idea, thought, or some way-out story into your mind? No matter what your answer may be, I took the chance and read the material handed to me through the person of Joseph T. Reese, and to my surprise, I was captivated by the passion and open-heartedness of this vibrant writer. To pen the words to paper will continue until the end of time, for the KJV Bible declares in Ecclesiastes 12:12, And further, by these, my son, be admonished of making many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh. This book that you are holding and contemplating on purchasing for self or some close friend should stimulate your drive and desire to see how the God of heaven can take an eager and inspiring young man from the atmosphere of Street Life as we call it, to a profound dreamer, visionary, poet, and author. I believe, like myself, youll see perhaps some images of yourself in these writings and in turn, will stop to give God glory for allowing Joseph T. Reese to tell the story from his view on life. Elder Joseph L. Reaves Jr. Pastor, Greater Faith House of Prayer
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