Fly-Up Ceremony Traveling at the Speed of God

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The Power of the Month: WILL
While you’re out running errands, will you please pick up
some school supplies that are on sale?
Apostle: MATTHEW • Color: SILVER
Location: LEFT FORE BRAIN
WILL The ability to choose, decide, command, lead, determine. WILL allows me to
choose willingness over willfulness. It is always seeing the good for all. It is your directive power that determines character
formation. It is the great permission giver of
your consciousness. I am open, receptive,
and willing to accept God’s Will.
School backpacks (all ages)
Hand Sanitizer
One-subject spiral notebooks
Washable markers (bold & fine tip)
Two-pocket folders
Large erasers
#2 pencils
Glue sticks/Elmer’s glue
Pens (black, blue & red)
Safety scissors/youth scissors
Highlighters
Pencil boxes
Box of crayons (24-48 count)
Calculators
Colored pencils
Protractors/Compasses
Watercolor paint sets
Three-ring binders
Facial tissues (small packs & boxes)
Loose leaf paper
Fly-Up Ceremony
Sunday, September 6, 2015, will be Youth and
Family Ministry’s Fly-Up Ceremony. The ceremony
will involve four year olds entering Kindergarten in
the fall through Uniteens. Following the ceremony, the graduates
will be honored by the congregation. Flyers will be placed in the
classrooms for the parents where students will advance a grade
and experience the love another YFM Teacher.
September 6th starts our
2015 Fall Curriculum
Sometimes Love looks like a backpack full of school supplies
on the first day of school.
August is here and families are getting ready for a new school year.
Some families don’t have the resources to purchase school supplies.
Children and their families may live in homes, or they may be living in
hotels, doubled up with friends or family, or even in cars.
Traveling at the Speed of God
Together, we can make God’s Love real,
one wonderful child at a time.
This year, Renaissance Unity is partnering with the Macomb County
Department of Health and Human Services to help local youth prepare
for success at school. We are providing backpacks and school supplies
for K-12 youth in our area.
The Star Wars, movies are about the hero/heroines journey from
self-doubt to transformation. The hero/heroine is a regular person living a mundane life and wanting more. It is the story, often
set in motion by tragedy, of how extraordinary things can happen
in ordinary lives.
This is a 12 week curriculum. Currently the story is written for
children 11-18, but we will be revising some of it so that it fits all
ages.
The first day of this new adventure is on Fly-up Sunday, 6, 2015.
The theme is “Divine Discontent: I Don’t Fit Here Anymore” it
explores the polarity of feelings within us. Many times we feel the
Questions/Thoughts/Suggestions? Please contact:
Anicia M. Blake, YFM Director, C.S.E, L.U.T.
ablake@renaissanceunity.org / (586) 353-2326
www.facebook.com/RUYouthandFamily
Here’s how you can help:
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Donate a backpack full of supplies - the list provided above
includes the basics, you can add what you wish!
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Donate funds to purchase backpacks and supplies
The supplies list will be available at the Community Outreach counter
on Sunday.
Important 2015 Dates:
August 16 – Bring backpacks and supplies to church.
(Outreach counter), as well as register in person
August 23 – Last day to bring backpacks and supplies in!
Thank you for your continuing support of children and families in our
community, and with all of our outreach programs.
PLATFORM SCHEDULE
Interesting TIDBITS About Our Presenters
Rickie Byars Beckwith stated, “It never ceases to
amaze me how children flourish when they are
given the space and the freedom to express who
they are.”
Kuumba Shule (“shule” is Swahili for school and
“Kuumba” means creativity). Imagine a school
where a child gets individual attention because
class sizes are smaller and will allow for that; where curriculum is not limited (to ‘Readin’, ‘Writin’ and ‘Rithmetic’) but
where the study of how a community could work together to
achieve a common good is the aim; where activism, dance,
music, kinesiology, nutrition and whatever else a child may
want to learn is the focus. Kuumba is a place where the
unique voice of every child is heard and revered.
Leymah Gbowee founded the Gbowee Peace
Foundation Africa (GPFA) in 2012 to provide educational and leadership development opportunities to women, girls and youth.
GPFA modeled its logo after the Unity Circle sculpture, a traditional West African wood carving of three intertwined figures holding up a shared bowl. It symbolizes community,
cohesion and cooperation. These values underpin GPFA’s
efforts to build a peaceful, reconciled Africa through the inclusive efforts of women, men and the youth.
GPFA focuses its efforts by empowering women and youth
traditionally marginalized from meaningful decision-making
roles—to fulfill leadership positions in their schools and communities.
American journalist and author, Mary Martha Corrine Morrison Claiborne Boggs, best known as
Cokie Roberts, was born December 27, 1943 in
New Orleans, Louisiana. She received the nickname “Cokie” from her brother Tommy, who could not pronounce “Corinne.” She’s an Author, a contributing senior
news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a roundtable
analyst for This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Cokie is
also a political commentator for ABC News.
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August 23, 2015
We can do more than Dream. We can
IMAGINE.
Quotes from Internationally acclaimed Spiritual Author, and Lecturer, Marianne Williamson.
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in
their minds “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
“The world we knew as children is still buried within
our minds Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is
who we really are, and what is real doesn’t go away.”
“I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired
skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will
not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time
our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be
happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep
breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy
about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a
muscle we must use or it will wither away.”
“We are all meant to shine as children do. We are born to make
manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of
us, it’s in everyone.”
His birth name was Kim Owens; the “Kem” spelling
was a mistake on an associate’s part that the singer
adopted because he thought it sounded distinctive
and marketable.
He says when he bottomed out he turned to God.
“He was waiting on me,“ the singer told Ebony.
“There was no flash of light or anything—I was just tired and I
didn’t know how to fix it. On that particular day, I realized I was
not living the life I wanted to live. I’d always had these high hopes
and expectations of what I wanted out of my life and I was nowhere near achieving those.” The first step in Kem’s recovery was
to seek help; he later became a member of the Renaissance Unity
Church in the Detroit suburb of Warren.
The rough spots in our lives give us character,“ he explained to
Jet. “I don’t regret the past...it’s an integral part of who I am.”
“What I’m most grateful for is I didn’t give up,” Kem told the Detroit News. “Don’t quit before your miracle happens.”
In 2014, For her work on Selma, Ava Duvernay,
became the first African American female to receive a Golden Globe Nomination for best Director.
Here’s a personal quote from the American director, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributor.
My name is Jewel, Jewel Kilcher. Yes, Jewel is my real
given name. I have green eyes, like my grandmother
Ruth. My grandmother Ruth was alive to see me succeed. She called me to her one day, and with a shaky
voice she told me that she gave up all her dreams of
being an opera singer and a poet, when she left pre-war Germany.
She believed if her future family had any chance of success, it
would be in a free country.
“I think good publicists are just like good mommies-always
looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making
sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are
She patted my leg with her delicate finger and said that it was
worth giving up her artistic dreams, to see the dreams for her
family come true. The fact that I made it as a writer and singer
meant so much to her.