Wednesday, October 17, 2001
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Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
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Flat Rock A.M.E. will have Youth Summit Oct. 26-28 Flat Rock A.M.E. Church in Fayetteville is planning a youth-oriented weekend Oct. 26-28, with special speakers and music geared specifically toward today's youth and young adults. Youth choirs from all over the greater Atlanta area are scheduled to perform. Events begin Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. with a "Pep Rally for Jesus." Special guests include ministers Paula Edwards and David Rocker and the Forest Chapel Praise Team. Saturday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., youth workshops and "rap" sessions will be featured, with discussions about current issues and problems. Special guest panelists are scheduled to appear. Saturday at 7 p.m. the ICG Choir Music and Praise Anniversary Concert gets underway with a youth "explosion" of gospel music. Youth choirs from all over Atlanta will perform and entertain. At 11 a.m. Sunday morning, the event will continue with a Youth Worship Celebration. Refreshments will be served throughout the event. Guest minister Paula Edwards. Friday's speaker, is a native New Yorker who now lives in Atlanta. She is founder of Faith Generation, Inc., an urban youth development agency based in metro Atlanta which focuses on youth and young adults. She says her mission is to reach out to youth who are at risk and to troubled teens. Edwards, herself, struggled with child abuse, drug abuse, and mental abuse as a teen and now says if she can help guide or lead one in the right direction, she has won a nation. "My one desire is that all youth know about the goodness of God and what He can do in their life," Edwards says. "I have ministered to youth from all walks of life: from the preacher's kid to the addict's kid; from the pews in the church to the alleys in the ghetto. Seeing through the eyes of today's youth is what I minister." Accompanying Edwards Friday will be David Rocker, founder of Fayetteville's own Gibralter Ministries. Rocker is a former NFL football player who says he traded in his "hoorays" for "hallelujahs." After retiring from the NFL and taking off his helmet, he says he put on the "helmet of salvation." Another former NFL player, Darnell Walker, is scheduled to speak. Walker, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers, is highly involved in his church and volunteers monthly to work in the church nursery. He lives in Lawrenceville. All youth in the community are invited. Flat Rock AME is at 148 Old Chapel Rd., just off Ga. Hwy. 54 near Adams Farm. For more information, call 770-461-0283. |
