Plan & Prepare - Single's Christmas Gala Event REVIEW

On Saturday, November 26th, 2011 I had the priviledge of attending the Planned & Prepare event at the Crosspoint Church. It was a great evening.


SRW Rating: 
7 out of 10 stars

As usual not enough men but who needs men when you got JESUS right.....:)

Seriously speaking I think I have the answer to how we can get more men at single events... will release this information soon.


I was able to capture some of the highlights for the night and a sit down interview with the Founder of Plan & Prepare Rev. Lorne Shepherd. He along with Marlene Mackenzie, Co-Founder of Plan & Prepare came up with coordinating unique seminars for single adults to prepare them for marriage.

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What Every Single Woman Needs To Know Part 1 & 2

PART 2

An Interview With My Diva Sister-in-law Kerry Archer

 

Hi Kerry thank you for having this interview with me. First, I must say that God blessed me with great in-laws, you being one of them.  Now, your husband and I have something very special in common and I know that you will never forget my birthday….(chuckle).

Kerry you have been blessed with a great husband and I wanted to share a part of your story with my SRW friends.

So, how did you meet my birthday twin?(smile)

Kerry: "Rayton and I met through Track and Field.”

Who first spoke to whom?

Kerry: “He said hi a few times but I made the crucial move to set everything in motion, I didn't know it at the time.”

How did you know that he was the One?

Kerry: "Honestly every guy that I spoke to gave me a hard time to visit church.  He was the only one that said "sure what time should I be there and actually came," I thought maybe there is hope for him yet!"

(SRW: Rayton currently serves in the security department at the church they both attend).

Was there ever a time that you felt like ending your courtship?

Kerry: "He was away for school in the U.S. and we both were having a hard time being away from each other.  I prayed if it's meant to be we will be together. We decided to make it work no matter what because Love is a powerful thing!  Now we have been together 20 years, married 12 1/2 years and we have 4 beautiful children."

What color is your toothbrush? and his?

Kerry: "Mine is a light blue and his is a dark blue."

What was the last movie you went out to see together?

Kerry: "Transformers 3"

(SRW: wonder who's pick it was, I forgot to ask)

Was marriage all that it was cracked up to be?

Kerry: "Marriage is whatever you put into it.  It's not easy, after all the excitement of the wedding and the honeymoon is over the real commitment sets in.  Marriage takes Time and Effort from both parties to make it work. It takes Patience for those days your spouse gets on your nerves.  It takes Understanding and Communication to realize how different you both are and how to make life better for each other. It takes Forgiveness, this is a big one! Know that we all have our faults, we make the wrong decisions or even say the wrong things, but always try to see if there is a way to get through it.  Then there is Love, love conquers all they say, that's debatable! But when you truly love someone for better or worse mean it!  For example; Lack of finances may strain any relationship but with love, God helps you find a way.  Make sure there is action behind it because it will not fix itself."   

Any advice for singles?

Kerry: "Don't be afraid to make the first move, sometimes the other person your interested in maybe thinking should I? I don't know, what if I get rejected? Well, what if they are the one for you? You will never know until you try!  I don't believe rejection is a bad thing in life, it just sets you up for the best thing of your life."

Hope this helps!

Love Kerry 

Six Words I Will Never Forget

 

When I saw this picture for the first time. I cried and cried.

The words that came to mind was that of an Evangelist, who preached a message I will never forget. The title: "Impending Danger." If the title alone didn't put the fear of God in me, a true story from his sermon did. 

The Story

One morning he had a vision of a Pastors daughter who was keeping her pregnancy a secret.  When he awoke from the vision he was  terribly disturbed. He was scheduled to preach at this Pastor's church that same evening.  

When he got to the church there she was; the young woman he saw in the vision.  Instead of calling her out before the crowd he finished his sermon and spoke to her in private. He had small talk and then asked if she was pregnant. Her answer "no". He then proceeded to tell her that the Holy Ghost showed him that she was pregnant and if it were true she should bare the shame and have the child. She repeated again, "I am not pregnant."

The Evangelist then left her alone hoping and praying in his heart that she would take heed to the words given to him by the Holy Spirit.

Days later he heard the bad news. This young woman was pregnant, but, she chose to end the pregnancy to avoid the shame. Shortly after her decision,  she lost her mental state of mind completely.

Back to the Service

The Fear of the Lord came over us all.

Then he said..”Saints, do not lie to the Holy Ghost, lest something worse happens to you.”

Read what happened to Ananias and Sapphira here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_and_Sapphira

Why did I blog this story?

Christian singles who are in dating or courting relationships could succomb to temptation and become pregnant as a result of it. 

The truth is this, no matter how we may miss the mark along this Christian journey God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. 

(1 John 1: 9) If you are pregnant, or know of someone that is, won't you share the words of this evangelist with them or share this blog. Who know's it could help to save a life.

 

Here is a closer look at the story behind the picture seen above.

"A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope." The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life."

Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person" Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful."

Bare the Shame Have The Child!

When Michelle Met Barack

By Liza Mundy

In the summer of 1989, Michelle Robinson told her mother she was going to concentrate on her law career and not worry about dating. She was 25 and had just finished her first year as an associate at Sidley & Austin, a corporate law firm in her home town of Chicago. Not long after, the firm assigned her to mentor a summer associate named Barack Obama.

Even then, there was a lot of buzz about this 27-year-old prodigy from Harvard Law School. Sidley didn't usually hire first-year law students as summer associates, so Barack's arrival was noteworthy. Martha Minow, a law professor at Harvard, told her father, Newton Minow, a high-ranking partner at Sidley, that Barack was possibly the most gifted student that she had ever taught. Michelle, who'd graduated from Harvard Law herself in 1988, felt annoyed by all the chattering. Why were people surprised that a black man might be articulate and capable?

Her own skepticism took a different form. His name struck her as odd, as did the fact that he had grown up in Hawaii. She assumed he would be "strange and overly intellectual" and that she would almost certainly dislike him. 

"He sounded too good to be true," she told David Mendell, author of "Obama: From Promise to Power." "I had dated a lot of brothers who had this kind of reputation coming in, so I figured he was one of these smooth brothers who could talk straight and impress people. So we had lunch, and he had this bad sport jacket and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and I thought: 'Oh, here you go. Here's this good-looking, smooth-talking guy. I've been down this road before.' " 

Want to read more go here:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/03/ST2008100302144.html