PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR ALL OUR SICK, SHUT IN AND THOSE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES IN THEIR LIVES AND FAMILIES
Marley Eschoe
Bereavement:
Ms. Sarah Jane Mayes Parker, aka “Teen”, mother of Bro. Curtis (Jennifer) Parker transition on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at the age of 98. Ms. Parker service was held on Saturday, August 8, 2015 at the Macedonia Baptist Church, In Taylorsville, N.C.
Please send your prayer request and prayer concerns to deacons@firstafrikanchurch.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please join the Seasoned Women on Tuesday, August 11, 2014 at 7:30pm in the FAC Community Room.
The FAC Ujima Men’s Fellowship is asking the men of First Afrikan Church to bring new school supply items to be packaged and delivered to a homeless shelter. Please deliver back packs, spiral notebooks, pencils, pens, erasers and any other basic school supplies to Elder James Marble, Bro. Curtis Grier, Bro. Mel Christopher or Deacon Akintunde Lebechi on Sunday, August 16, 2015. Brothers, our homeless sisters and brothers are often forgotten during back to school events, let’s cover the gap for them. Elder James Marble, elbram@icloud.com phone available upon request.
Please join us for our Congregational Meeting on Sunday, August 30, 2015 following the 8am & 10am Worship Services.
Ancestral Walk 2015: The Old Landmark-The Black Church—Spirit Work and Planning is underway for our upcoming Ancestral Walk, Saturday, September 19, 2015 Every year in some way, we bring reconciliation to our Ancestors for the spaces and places we go without recognizing our Ancestors’ walked, suffered, died, fought and lived in those spaces and places. We innocently miss an opportunity to say, ”thank you and we recognize what you did so that we can benefit”. Ancestral Walk is both and educational and spiritual encounter to acknowledge as a faith of community. ”How We Made It Thus Far”….If you are interested in assisting with the “spiritual preparations” —we hold Wednesday teachings in September and/or assisting with the logistics and promotions of the Ancestral Walk. Please email us at fapc@firstafrikanchurch.org or see Mama Itihari Toure or Deacon Rene King
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS:
To Be An Afrikan Teacher Institute, Saturday, August 22, 2015 from 9 am to 4 pm. opens us in the Franklin auditorium on the ITC Campus. The 7th Annual commemoration of the work and legacy of Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III aka Nana Baffour Amankwatia II focuses upon “Raise Up & Teach Excellence” for parents, teachers and administrators interested in rearing and creating learning environments for excellence in character and in scholarship. There are plenaries and work sessions led by the foremost Africentered educators in Metro Atlanta. Registration of $25.00 includes all sessions, lunch and school tool kit. Even if you are not a parent, teacher or administrator, we all have a responsibility to raise up excellence! We look forward to seeing you. For more details see flyers in the Narthex or contact Mama Itihari through church email.
Shaku Dinner Banquet Honoring Dr. Charles S. Finch II, Saturday, August 29, 2015 at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Shake means “seeking illumination”, we as a church family and as Afrikan people have benefited much from Dr. Finch’s work and study on Egyptian and Dogon Cosmology. We take this opportunity to celebrate and remind ourselves of what we have inherited from great African scholars as healers. Tickets are $50.00 and can be purchased online at http: sankofacspe.org or see Elder Charlene Johnson. Libation led by Giwayen Mata, Mausiki Scales and Kevin Kalimbaman Spears are guest musical artists.
Sister Janice Taheera Harper is inviting all parents to enroll their elementary or middle school aged children into a program that helps youth gain cultural understanding by engaging them with stories written by African American authors. Come be apart of it! For further information please contact Sister Janice Taheera Harper at 7065 9340 23 or by email at jnharp5@Gmail.com.
Scholarship Program: Learn User Experience Design or Web Development Immersive
There’s an opportunity for 20 youth (ages 18-25) and veterans to take Georgia Assembly’s full-time, 12 week Web Development Immersive (WDI) and 10 week User Experience Design (UXDI) courses in San Francisco, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. as well as 50 scholarships for an online web design course. The deadline is August 15th. In Summary: $250,000 in scholarships are available to support 20 full time students for Web Development and User Experience Design; as well as 50 scholarships for online web design courses. Candidates should apply here: https://generalassemb.ly/opportunity-fund/fellowships/jump-start
· This is very time sensitive – The deadline for all applications is August 15th.
20th Anniversary –The Million Man March, Atlanta L.O.C. (Atlanta Local Organizing Committee), Saturday, October 10, 2015, Washington, DC. Meetings every Tuesday at 7pm, First Iconium Baptist Church, 542 Moreland Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30316. Convener Rev. Timothy McDonald III, and Co-Convener: Student Minister Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad. For more information visit www.justiceorelse.com, 800-590-5035
Conference Volunteers Needed: Be a Part of History – Share Our Stories – Connect Be an Atlanta ASALH Volunteer September 23 – 27, 2015, Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, 165 Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 30303. ASALH depends on a strong team of volunteers to support our conference. The application to participate in this Centennial Conference is below. Come out and make new friends and support the Atlanta community and ASALH conventioneers. The next volunteer information meeting will be on Sunday, July 26 & Sunday, August 23 at The Shrine of the Black Madonna. Help us share
Atlanta hospitality and history with more than 1,000 scholars, educators, community members, students, researchers and active citizens from around the world who will participate in more than 200 fascinating presentations and informative dialogues about African life and history.
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