Discerning God’s Voice as We Build Strong Witnesses in Changing Times 1 Kings 17:8-24

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Stephen A. Green, Youth Day Service Speaker
Come praise the Lord with us as we rejoice for all He continues to do in the lives of our Youth.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7th
Gospel Skate Night
6:30pm-10:00pm
Skate Palace
3132 Branch Avenue
Temple Hills, Maryland

FRIDAY, JUNE 7th – SATURDAY, JUNE 8th
Youth Lock-In
10:00pm-11:00am
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
1518 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH
Scholarship Endowment Luncheon
12:00pm-3:00pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH
Youth Day Service
10:00am
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
1518 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

For more information, contact a Youth Day Committee member.
Dakarai Aarons (Dakarai.aarons@gmail.com), Teria Drayton (Teria.drayton@yahoo.com), Selena Fizer (Sef11678@aol.com) or Britney Jones
(braej@aol.com)

Stephen embraces his why through his commitment to social justice, Stephen was appointed to serve as the National Youth and College Director for the Empowerment Movement. The Empowerment Movement is a faith-based civil rights organization that is designed to move the African American Community forward in politics, education and economics with the use of Christian principles. As National Youth Director, Stephen has organized and led marches, most notably leading students on a 40-mile march on Easter Weekend to seek justice for Trayvon Martin. Currently, he serves as the President of the Morehouse NAACP Chapter.

Stephen is a Senior Political Science and Religion Major, Honor Student, Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel Assistant, and Student Government Association Officer. Presently, he serves as the Youth Minister at New Bethel AME Church, Lithonia, Georgia.

Stephen A. Green is embraced by a loving family, his parents, Bishop Samuel L. Green, Sr. and Dr. Ava S.B. Green, and brothers Rev. Samuel L. Green, Jr. and Adam Scott Green.

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The 2 week Camp is Monday-Friday, 2-5 pm, August 5-16.  They will demonstrate medical procedures, teach some advanced biology, and have research activities.  At the end, students create a video to show what they learned.  MIM has done this very successfully in previous years.

Registration is now open at:  http://mimvc2-es2005.eventbrite.com

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, the National Cathedral of the A.M.E. denomination whose land-site is the oldest continuously Black-owned parcel of land in the Nation’s Capitol, won a $90,000 grant to restore the stained glass windows on the primary façade. in the recent competition sponsored by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The church was among 14 historic places in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia that will receive grants as part of Partners in Preservation’s $1 million commitment to preservation efforts in the area.

Metropolitan was lauded as “symbolic of the sustained strength of a people and their belief in the equality of all people – the first independent Black religious body in the US – from 1816 to 1896.

Trustee Gwendolyn Kimbrough, who spearheaded Metropolitan’s effort, said:  “We were really blessed by the $90,000.  We appreciate that kind of commitment from those who did vote”

“However,” she added: ”the lesson for AME ‘s is that we have to become a real connectional church whereby we can reach out and touch each other quickly. We may have millions of people but we have no vehicle for connecting with each other and focusing that power in any one direction.

“In order to do that we have to come into this millennium –that’s the social media platforms and embrace it so that we can sustain ourselves as a strong entity.  That means we have to open up to young people for therein lies the expertise and our future.”