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Monday, February 05, 2018
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2
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Call to Action: (a)
Russells CD Release, (b) MSBC Inaugural of President Russell, (c ) Darnell
Davis, (d) Nat'l Baptist Convention USA, (e ) Social Media
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This Week's Schedule -
(a) Mon, (b) Tue, (c) Wed, (d) Thurs., (e) Fri, (f) Sat, (g) Sun
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Upcoming
Engagements/Event Dates
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5
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Other Announcements -
(a) Birthdays, (b) Talent Acquisition Manager
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Scripture & Prayer
Requests
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1a
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1 Timothy 3:11
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New International
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11 In the same way, the women[a]
are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and
trustworthy in everything.
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1b
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Prayer List (Chaplains
- E. Paster, J. Brown, J. Champs)
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Jordon B.
Sister Francine Gladden & Family Sister Pat Porch & Family Valerie Stookey & Family |
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Roxanne Erhardt & Family
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Stacey Yates & Family
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Caretha Taylor (Mother of Deaconess Gail
Henderson)
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Bertha Swingler
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Denice & Shem
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Rev. Juan Turner & Family
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Deaconess Janice Porter & Family
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Sister Tanesha Nixon & Family
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Sister Daisy Lee Family
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Mother Margaret Johnson Family
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Bro. Garland Lowell Francis, Sr. Family
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Sister Francine Gladden
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Sister Linda Sawyer & Family
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Sister LeAnn Hicks & Family
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Mother Joanne Clinton
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Anyone want to be
added?
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Please send an email
to with subject "Prayer List" to:
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Prayer Line Request?
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Prayer offered day or night, 24 hour
availability for prayer
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Call: 612-559-0061
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Call to Action!
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2a
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Happy Black History
Month!
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16 Trailblazing Black
Minnesotans You Should Know More About!
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See Section 5d
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2b
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"In His
Hands" Now Available!
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Support MSBC Scholarship
Fund!
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2c
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After School Job
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2d
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Claiming Our Voices!
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Claiming Our Voices![]()
Thousands of people of faith, dedicated to justice and public love, will flood the caucuses this year. They are leading a path throughout 2018 to ensure that the legislative session and the next Governor of Minnesota are accountable to moral clarity through our agenda.
Why Caucusing? Through caucusing, we have the power to shape the issues and political environment. We can elevate our shared vision for Minnesota by moving candidates to talk about a better agenda for all people and have them commit to working on those issues. We can shape the campaigns and hold candidates accountable.
Building a world that justly serves people requires that we all step up and participate, starting with political participation. Real change starts at the grassroots. Precinct caucuses are a grassroots, ground level way for you and me to get involved and be heard, even if we have never participated before. To Sign up to Caucus, click here: www.tinyurl.com/isaiahcaucus
What’s a Faith Agenda? Our Claiming Our Voices House Meetings throughout the fall were the first step in our formation of boldly proclaiming our faith and our vision for a just Minnesota through 2018. Hundreds of ISAIAH leaders and our partner organization, Faith in Minnesota, have come together throughout the last month to develop our 2018 Faith Agenda in response to the concerns and issues that emerged from our House Meeting conversations. This Faith Agenda represents our shared values and our proposed policy priorities for the next Governor of Minnesota.
ISAIAH is publicly announced our faith agenda January 14-18 through several events across the state, unifying the multifaceted nature of Minnesotans, geographically, denominationally, and racially. There are several planks of this agenda, but it is all ONE AGENDA. Just as people of God are called to act as one body, their concerns for justice cannot be separated from one another.
Faith Agenda: https://is.gd/ClaimingOurVoicesAgenda
Governing Priorities: https://is.gd/ClaimingOurVoicesAgenda2
What’s a Faith Delegate?
Faith Delegates are leaders who are committed to put racial and economic justice at the heart of our politics through 2018 by committing to bring our faith agenda into the center of public decisions through caucuses all the way to party conventions in June of 2018.
We need YOU to join us on this path. There will be Faith Delegate Trainings across Minnesota throughout January. To commit to be a faith delegate and to find a January Faith Delegate Training near you, click here: www.tinyurl.com/faithdelegate2018
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2e
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National Baptist
Convention in Mpls September 3-7, 2018
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2f
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Nexus Community
Positions
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2g
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Xcel Energy Employment
Opportunity!
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2h
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3
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Monday, February 05, 2018
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3a
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Monday, February 05, 2018
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6:00 PM
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Hospitality Ministry
Meeting
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1st Monday of Month
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6:30 PM
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Usher Ministry Meeting
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2nd Monday of Month
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7:00 PM
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Bible Study w/Rev.
Lewellyn Wilder
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Single Creek Commons
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4600 Humbolt
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3b
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
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6:30 PM
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GFMBC Thespian
Ministry
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Easter Play Production
Rehearsal
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7:00 PM
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PACT II (Friendship
Community Services)
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Support Services Meeting
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For those reestablishing lives disrupted by:
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incarceration or addiction
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(New Members Classroom)
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Email: fcs2600@gmail.com
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10:00 AM
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BOYS2MEN
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Start a New Career & Take Control of Your Life!
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For African American Males 18 - 32 Years Old
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St. Paul or East Metro Resident
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Progressive Baptist Church
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7:00 PM
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Education Equity Team
Meeting
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GFMBC Friendship Hall
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3c
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Sunday School focused
Bible Study & Prayer Service
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Faith Without Works
Is Dead— Jamess 2: 14-26
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Email: SundaySchool@greatfriend.org
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Young Men of Christ
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Workout & Wisdom
Wednesday
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Where: Meet in GFMBC
Workout Room
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Bible Study &
Prayer Service @ GFMBC
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Facilitated by Pastor
Billy G. Russell
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Bookstore Email:
gfmbcbooksandmore@gmail.com
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Email: ChristianEducation@greatfriend.org
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3d
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Thursday, February 08, 2018
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The Beat!
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5:00 PM
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Minister Darnell Davis
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● Tune in to soarradio.com
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● Or download Live365 Radio App on your Smartphone
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6:00 PM
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Doves Rehearse!
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[Thursday b4 1st & 3rd Sunday]
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6:00 PM
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Men of Praise
Rehearse!
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[Thursday b4 2nd & 4th Sunday]
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6:00 PM
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(YPOP) Practice!
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[Thursday b4 2nd Sunday]
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6:30 PM
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Faith Bible Institute
Registration Open!
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Teacher I Want to Be
Training
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Fireside Room
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7:00 PM
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Fortress (Teen) Choir
Rehearsal!
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[Thursday b4 2nd Sunday]
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3e
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Friday, February 09, 2018
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6:00 PM
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Agape Ball Social
Hour
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7:30 PM
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Agape Ball Dinner -
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Dance & Dessert
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Hilton MSP Airport
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3800 American Blvd East
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7:00 PM
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Friday Focus
Fellowship
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Minneapolis, MN
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3f
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
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2nd Saturday
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9:00 AM
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Trustee Meeting
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10:00 AM
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Deacons & Deaconesses
Meeting (Ch'd from Feb. 3rd)
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10:00 AM
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Deacons, Deaconesses & Mothers Meeting
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Foreign Mission, Evangelism, Women, Men, and Bread Ministries
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10:00 AM
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10:30 AM - Noon
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YPOP (Young People of
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Busy Bees Meeting
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12:00 PM
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Adults & Teens Movers 4 Christ (Praise Dance) Ministry
Rehearsal in Gold Room!
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ALL are welcome- children, teens and adults
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Questions: See Sis. Cynthia Taylor
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1:00 PM
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Children Movers 4 Christ (Praise Dance)
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Ministry Rehearsal in Gold Room!
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3g
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Sunday, February 11, 2018
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2nd Sunday!
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6:00 AM
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Bro Pete Rhodes
Presents: "Urban Perspectives"
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Comcast Channel 937
BMA Networks
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7:30 AM
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Song review &
Devotion
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Deacon Brown Choir Room
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8:00 AM
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Call to Worship ---
Worship Leader
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8:20 AM
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Sings!
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Attire:
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Sermon
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Rev. Dr. Billy G.
Russell, Sr. Pastor
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8:59 AM
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Facilitated by Executive Pastor, Eddie Bolden
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Marriage Ministry
Presents…
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Marriage Built to
Last: Living Intentionally & Loving Biblically
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Email: MarriedMinistry@greatfriend.org
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Facilitated by Rev. L. Wilder & Sis. Jean Wilder
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9:01 AM
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Sunday School
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Faith Without Works
Is Dead— Jamess 2: 14-26
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Email: SundaySchool@greatfriend.org
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10:00 AM
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Bro Pete Rhodes
Presents: "Urban Perspectives"
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Comcast Channel 937
BMA Networks
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10:15 AM
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Worship Leader
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10:20 AM
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TAKOVER (Fortress
-Youth Praise Team) sings!
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YPOP (Young People of
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Greater Mt. Nebo would like the Men's Choir to render an A &
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CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST - WORLD HEADQUARTERS
POSITION DESCRIPTION Business Title: Administrative Assistant Ministry/Team: CRU Inner City/Twin Cities Reports To: National Directors of Operations and Twin Cities City Director FLSA Status: Non-exempt Prepared By: Janet Beich Prepared Date: 9/27/2010 (updated 1/9/2018) Approved By: Carrie Castino, 10/5/2010, Ada Morgan, 1/23/2018 Job Code: AA3- Administrative Assistant 3- (UN2/7) MISSION: Cru is a caring community passionate about connecting people to Jesus Christ SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF POSITION: Perform a wide variety of administrative functions to assist the National Director of Operations and local Twin Cities Inner City team. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. As an employee with Cru: ● Actively and intentionally grow in his/her Christian faith ● Maintain a positive witness for Christ ● Express a dependence on the Holy Spirit ● Share what God is teaching him or her ● Consistently attend and participate in team/ministry devotional times. FOR THIS ROLE: • Maintain and update Twin City databases/assist other cities in setup and maintenance of MPDX • Establish and maintain filing systems • Use, manage and clear One Card each month. • Assist in preparing Annual Fiscal Plan, city and national • Input local and national budgets into budget tool • Coordinate all Fellowship Dinner mailings and assist with other Fund Development (FD) administrative needs; lead FD registration onsite/ Manage Table host lists & mailings • Process donations to Cru Inner City Twin Cities and update database accordingly o Write thank you notes for donations o Send donations to Cru, make copies of checks • Help prepare city communication pieces including: appeal letters, newsletters, brochures and mailings, emails, fellowship dinner pieces, work with printer and bulk mailer to get communication pieces printed and mailed • Update give.cru.org sites to reflect current appeal • Prepare materials for and conduct regular mailings/emails to partners and donors • Update Inner City Twin Cities Facebook account • Coordinate all administrative needs for Cru Open • Coordinate communications with MJM • Update NLT org chart as needed with National LD/HR • Assist with registration at CIA events • Process staff office expense sheets bi-monthly OTHER DUTIES: • Assist with receptionist duties as needed • Perform related duties as assigned SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES None QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. KNOWLEDGE OF: Record keeping and filing techniques. Correct English usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary. Oral and written communication skills, Excellent aptitude for using computers and Internet technology, including Microsoft programs, Mailchimp, and social media platforms Analyze situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action. Strong organizational skills Pursue understanding of God’s heart for the poor and embrace uniqueness of all people groups. ABILITY TO: Ability to work independently and identify and initiate tasks and procedures. Problem-solve and troubleshoot issues that arise Interact professionally with a wide variety of people Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others. 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6 trailblazing black Minnesotans you should know more about
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Black Minnesotans made headlines across the nation even before the state was admitted to the Union in 1858, and any number of black explorers, advocates, teachers and preachers played crucial roles in launching many of the state’s earliest institutions.
Some now have buildings named after them; others are lesser-known.
February is Black History Month, a fitting time to recognize black trailblazers who helped open doors for future generations of Minnesotans.
From the state’s first black millionaire to its first black lawmaker, this list — by no means exhaustive — is meant to highlight a few men and women whose names you probably don’t hear as often as Prince or Gordon Parks.
GEORGE BONGA![]()
Born near Duluth in 1802 to an African-American father and an Ojibwe mother, George Bonga is believed to be one of the first people of African-American descent born in Minnesota.
Following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps, Bonga became a respected fur trader for the American Fur Company in the 1920s and later a wilderness guide out of his homes on Leech and Otter Tail lakes, said Barry Babcock, a historian from Bemidji who has spent years researching the Bonga family for a book.
In that sense, Babcock considers Bonga to be one of the first “resort operators” in northern Minnesota. “Many luminaries would go and stay with him. … He would take them out in his birch-bark canoe and paddle them around the area,” Babcock said.
Fluent in English, Ojibwe and French, Bonga, who married an Ojibwe woman, also worked as an interpreter and was an influential advocate for the fair treatment of American Indians. He served as a witness to the 1867 treaty that created the White Earth Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota.
His biggest claim to fame, though, may be the role he played in Minnesota’s first criminal court proceeding. Bonga spent days tracking the man accused of killing Alfred Aitkin in 1837. He eventually caught him and brought him to Fort Snelling bound on a sled, prompting the state’s first murder trial, Babcock said.
Bonga was widely admired as a man who “took the high road,” Babcock said.
Editor’s note: Through Feb. 28 at the St. Paul History Theatre, Carlyle Brown’s new play “George Bonga: Black Voyageur” takes some pages out of the life of its title character, a voyageur of African-American and Ojibwe descent who was one of the first African-Americans in what is now Minnesota. Tickets are $38-$20; for more information call 651-292-4323 or visit historytheatre.com.
HARRIET ROBINSON SCOTT![]()
The U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857 helped propel the country toward civil war. What sometimes gets left out of the telling is the story of Dred Scott’s wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, a fellow slave who, like her husband, sued for her freedom and lost.
The Scotts met and married while held at Fort Snelling around 1836, which was then a part of the Wisconsin territory.
While stationed away from Fort Snelling, U.S. Army surgeon John Emerson leased the Scotts to other slave owners, effectively introducing slavery into a free territory. Harriet gave birth to a daughter, Eliza, on a Mississippi River steamboat between Illinois and Iowa, another free territory.
After Emerson’s death, the Scotts attempted to buy their freedom from his widow, who refused their offer. They took the case to court.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court found that despite congressional legislation to the contrary, the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in its growing territories and that African-Americans, whether slave or free, cannot be U.S. citizens.
The controversial decision helped fuel the financial panic of 1857, and the Civil War erupted four years later. The Scotts were eventually freed, but Dred died nine months later.
THE REV. ROBERT HICKMAN![]()
Born into slavery in 1831, the Rev. Robert Thomas Hickman led fellow slaves on a harrowing river journey to freedom in 1863.
Details of his escape from Missouri to Minnesota remain murky, but various accounts all confirm that Hickman convinced as many as 75 fellow slaves — his self-described “pilgrims” — to board a raft or makeshift boat with him and head up river.
Reports have it that the steamboat Northerner found them adrift and towed them to safety past jeering dockworkers, and a second group of escaped slaves joined them 10 days later. On Nov. 15, 1866, Hickman and his followers formally organized Pilgrim Baptist Church in St. Paul. Two white ministers led the church until 1877, after which Hickman became the congregation’s official minister in 1878. He died on Feb. 6, 1900.
The church, at 732 W. Central Ave., hosts services every Sunday.
J. FRANK WHEATON![]()
Once upon a time, a shoeshine boy became an attorney, and an attorney made Minnesota political history, only to die in tragedy.
Born in Maryland, John Frank Wheaton became the first African-American elected to the Minnesota Legislature in 1898. A graduate of Howard University and the University of Minnesota Law School, Wheaton served a single year in office, representing Minneapolis’ Kenwood neighborhood and what’s known today as Eden Prairie, Edina and Excelsior.
He introduced the 1899 civil-rights statute that guaranteed people of all races access to saloons, which previously had been able to exclude customers based on race. Wheaton twice represented Minnesota at the Republican National Convention.
He abruptly changed course and opened a life insurance company in Chicago and then a law firm in New York City. Facing financial ruin after the disappearance of a client out on bond, Wheaton died by suicide in 1922. He was 55.
CLARENCE “CAP” WIGINGTON![]()
Architect Clarence “Cap” Wigington is responsible for some of St. Paul’s most iconic public buildings.
His designs include the administration building at Holman Field airport, the Highland Park Water Tower, Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Wigington Pavilion on Harriet Island and several local schools.
Although he had little formal training, Wigington spent three decades in the St. Paul City Architect’s office. He was the first black person in the United States to serve as a municipal architect.
Several of his buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Born in Kansas in 1883, Wigington moved to St. Paul in 1914.
During World War I, he successfully petitioned Minnesota’s governor to create the all-black 16th Battalion of the state’s Home Guard, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. He earned his nickname, “Cap,” after being commissioned the battalion’s captain.
In addition to his many permanent buildings, Wigington also designed five ice palaces for St. Paul’s Winter Carnival.
Wigington retired in 1949 and died 18 years later in Kansas City.
BOBBY MARSHALL![]()
Of all of the great athletes in Big Ten history, Bobby Marshall was arguably the best of all time. The former Minneapolis Central star was the first person of color to ever play football in the conference once known as the Big Nine, in 1904.
He was an All-American end for the University of Minnesota in 1905 and 1906. He was part of two Big Ten championships, including an undefeated 13-0 season in 1904. Marshall also earned all-conference honors in baseball and ran track for the Gophers.
In 1907, he graduated from the U with a law degree and became a practicing attorney in the Twin Cities. But he still had an appetite for athletic competition. He started playing semi-pro baseball for a segregated team in Minneapolis, and later in St. Paul.
His career on the diamonds lasted for more than a decade. Marshall also found time to be one of the first black players in the NFL (1920-24) and he played professional hockey and boxing. He died at age 78 in 1958, after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Marshall was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
LENA O. SMITH![]()
Lena Olive Smith was the first black woman to practice law in Minnesota.
As one of six children, she moved to the state in her early 20s with her family from Lawrence, Kan., in 1906.
Before deciding to pursue a law degree in 1916, she worked several jobs to support her family after her father died, including in real estate. She fought for the equality of her clients to live in white neighborhoods. After attending Northwestern College (now part of William Mitchell College of Law), Smith opened her own firm and became a prominent civil-rights attorney and activist in the 1920s and ’30s.
She helped found the Urban League branch in Minneapolis in 1925 and was the first female president of the local chapter of the NAACP in 1935.
She was still an active attorney when she died at age 81 in 1966. Her legacy, along with that of Minnesota’s first black lawyer, Frederick McGhee, helped pave the way for other legal pioneers such as Alan Page and Wilhelmina Wright, the first African-American man and woman elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court, respectively.
The Lena O. Smith House, where she once lived, at 3905 Fourth St. S. in Minneapolis is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
I. MYRTLE CARDEN![]()
When black families from St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood needed basic services or just a place to hang out, they turned to I. Myrtle Carden.
For 20 years, beginning from its founding in 1929, Carden led the Hallie Q. Brown Community House, a social-service agency inspired by the era’s settlement house movement. Carden, a social worker from Pittsburgh, mentored a generation of young girls shut out from white school groups and social programs.
Named after an Ohio educator who led the establishment of black women’s clubs across the country, Hallie Q. Brown soon became St. Paul’s second-largest neighborhood center. Among other activities, teenage girls taught nutrition and home economics to other teens.
The community center, which grew out of the St. Paul Urban League, started at the site of a former YWCA and is now part of the Martin Luther King Center off Dale Street and Marshall Avenue.
In Minneapolis, Carden’s ideological counterpart was W. Gertrude Brown, who ran the Phyllis Wheatley House, a magnet for famous guests such as Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson and W.E.B. DuBois.
NELLIE STONE JOHNSON![]()
Nellie Stone Johnson got her first taste of activism growing up on her family’s Dakota County farm in the early 1900s.
Her father, a union organizer, would send her to school with an armload of fliers to hand out on the way.
Johnson grew up to be a key figure in Minnesota’s labor and civil-rights movements, as well as a founder of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Johnson joined the ranks of political radicals as a student at the University of Minnesota, where she met lifelong friend and collaborator Hubert Humphrey. She became a member of the Minneapolis NAACP in 1934.
As an elevator operator at the St. Paul Athletic Club in the 1930s, Johnson organized her fellow employees under the Minneapolis Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union.
In 1945, she became the first black person in Minneapolis elected to a citywide office as a member of the library board.
Johnson continued to advocate for people of color and the working class until her death in 2002 at age 96.
“I’ve never known hunger, or being without clothing or shelter a day in my life,” she told the Pioneer Press in 1995. “I want that for everyone.”
FREDERICK JONES![]()
If you wanted to haul produce from one coast to the other before 1940, your best bet was to drive really fast.
Frederick Jones changed that with his Thermo King portable refrigeration unit, which allowed truckers to keep their cargo cool on long trips.
This invention, and the more than 50 others he patented in his lifetime, won him a place in the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Jones moved to Minnesota from his native Ohio in 1912 to work on a farm in Hallock owned by James J. Hill. He moved to the Twin Cities in the early 1930s, according to the Minnesota Historical Society.
A workaholic, Jones would routinely toil until 2 or 3 in the morning, his wife told the Pioneer Press in 1971. His inventions included a portable X-ray machine for hospitals, an ice cream machine and soundtrack equipment used in movies and television shows.
Jones was the first black person to be inducted into the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers and the first to be awarded the National Medal of Technology.
He died in 1961 at age 68.
JAMES GRIFFIN![]()
If you’ve ever been inside St. Paul’s police headquarters, you’ve probably seen James Griffin’s name. It’s mounted above the front door.
Born in 1917 and raised in the city’s Rondo neighborhood, Griffin was the first black St. Paul police officer to reach the ranks of sergeant, captain and deputy chief after joining the force in 1941.
His trailblazing ascent did not come without setbacks, according to an account of his oral history captured by Kate Cavett of Hand in Hand Productions.
Griffin told the historian about enduring years of racism. He had to take the police department’s physical exam countless times before passing and was not allowed to have a squad car when he first became an officer. He also filed a complaint when he initially failed to land the deputy chief job even though he had the highest score on the exam. He later got it because the department created two deputy chief positions.
Griffin also served as a St. Paul school board member and on the board of directors of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center and was active in the NAACP. He died in 2002.
JAMES ‘CORNBREAD’ HARRIS. SR.![]()
James “Cornbread” Harris Sr., a Minneapolis blues and jazz musician, has a storied place in Minnesota music history. He’s mostly known as the father of Jimmy Jam (James Harris III), a former member of the Time and hit record producer for pop icon Janet Jackson with his partner, Terry Lewis.
But Harris performed on Minnesota’s first rock ‘n’ roll record with Augie Garcia’s 1955 song, “Hi Yo Silver.” Garcia, who grew up on St. Paul’s West Side, is known as the godfather of Minnesota Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Harris, who served in the military, continued to make contributions to the local music scene as an artist, mentor and philanthropist for more than 60 years. He was the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame’s first recipient of the Blues Legend Award in 2012.
Both Harris’ parents died when he was 3. He lived with his sister in foster homes until moving to St. Paul to stay with his grandparents as a preteen. About a year later, he began to learn the piano, a skill he still entertains audiences with at age 88. Harris performs at Minneapolis venues such as the Loring Pasta Bar and Hell’s Kitchen.
ARCHIE AND PHEBE GIVENS![]()
Minnesota’s first black millionaire died in 1974, but the family legacy lives on through literature.
Archie and Phebe Givens married in the 1940s, having met while growing up in North Minneapolis. A successful real estate developer, Archie Givens was later dubbed the state’s first black millionaire, and his wife, also a philanthropist, was considered by many to be Minnesota’s black Florence Nightingale.
The couple opened the state’s first racially integrated nursing homes, and Phebe Givens became the first black woman to be licensed within the state as a nursing home administrator.
Founded in 1972 as a scholarship organization, the Archie and Phebe Mae Givens Foundation sponsors emerging black authors and community reading campaigns. The Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African-American Literature spans more than 10,000 rare and first-edition books and manuscripts at the University of Minnesota.
Archie Givens died in 1974, and Phebe Givens died last year at age 93.
LOU BELLAMY![]()
Lou Bellamy, 72, founded the critically acclaimed Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul in 1976 to create a forum for African-American voices in Twin Cities theater.
Penumbra remains Minnesota’s only professional African-American theater and the largest of its kind nationally. It helped launch the careers of several respected playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson.
Penumbra was born out of a desire to bring more authenticity and nuance to depictions of African-Americans, Bellamy said.
“The stories that were being told about African-Americans at that time didn’t have the breadth or richness that I knew the culture to be capable of. … I wanted a place where those more-complicated portrayals of African-Americans could be told,” Bellamy said.
The pioneering company has inspired other theaters across the country to emulate the “Penumbra style,” which Bellamy described as a “real adherence and concentration on the nuance, musicality, gestural language and culture of African-Americans.”
These days, Bellamy serves as co-artistic director of the theater with his daughter, Sarah Bellamy.
SHARON SAYLES BELTON![]()
Born in 1951, Sharon Sayles Belton was the first African-American and first woman to serve as mayor of Minneapolis. The St. Paul native held the post from 1994 to 2001, when she lost her bid for re-election to fellow Democrat R.T. Rybak.
Sayles Belton graduated from Macalester College in 1973 and went on to work as a parole officer for sexual assault offenders and later as a neighborhood activist.
She co-founded the Harriet Tubman Shelter for Battered Women as well as the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault. During her mayoral career, she helped bring Target Corp. to Nicollet Mall and Block E to downtown Minneapolis. The city reversed a crime wave and an economic slide.
Sayles Belton was elected to the Minneapolis City Council’s 8th Ward in 1983 and became council president in 1990.
She serves as vice president of government affairs and community relations at Thomson Reuters.
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