February 2009 * Volume 2 Issue 2 ew ion Baptist Church] || THE CHURCH BUILT BY FAITH PEACE STARTS WITH =A SMILE SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30AM MORNING WORSHIP 11:00 AM WEDNESDAY FELLOWSHIP 12:00 PM & 7:00 PM eee Be £so35 | Ree i New San 5 Annual Usher's Day Celeb Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 3 :30 p.m. a Chu h. Mission The theme this year is “It’s Not an Impossible Challenge” (Philippians 2:13-14). “We are servants of the wise and unwise indebted seth ti cians 1] this fellowship of Christian faith USHERS , until it Rev. France Davis, Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City eo will be our guest speaker. covers the earth.” Please contact Sis. Jackie Jones, Usher’s President, for additional information. Celebrated February 15 — 28% Black History Month is the successor to the Negro History Week which was initiated on February 12, 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a pre-eminent historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson was concerned that the contributions of Black Americans were overlooked or misrepresented and he began OS EE Ee OTe ea A Word From Our Pastor ..eo oe _ Sunday School Ministry a lobbying for Negro Week as early as 1915. He selected February because it included birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12%) and Frederick Douglas (February 14*) whom he believed had dramatically impacted the lives of Black Americans. Bruce Davis Mini seeeeeees sseceeee 3 es Life and History, successfully lobbied to extend Black History Week into a month-long observance. | Christian Education & ee une © Each year, a new theme is chosen for Black History Month. The path toward empowerment. eee : Se. e ee What’s Going oe a : Ministry, National Black AIDS Awareness Dey,”oe In 1976, Woodson’s legacy, now renamed the Association for the Study of Afro-American oS oe : SS Military Listing & © oo — Recent Event Aeknowkedgments ae ee Youth Happenings .. ee: oe ona Pastor& First Lady. “Special Thank You”, . 1. ee S a ae Sunshine & Publicity Ministries oe : & Business Directory a a “Weekly Reminders & Church .. Back ua tulecageme| . . oo a . . . . 3. Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? 4. Guy Bluford is the first African American... a) James Baldwin b) ToniMorrison a) _ killed during the Civil War 0. Benjamin a) = . . Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win an Academy Award in a leading man role. For which picture did he win Best Actor? a) ToSirWithLove b) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Se Deacon’ s Coon: denisdiscdssndeeeegia (test your knowledge of African American History) _ Who was the first African American to appear on a postage stamp? a) Paul Robeson b) Frederick Douglas cc) Booker T. Washington . 2. a 2009 Tax Tips, Bichens & oe : Anniversaries & Shut-in Listing = ; Black History Quiz The 1998 theme was African Americans and Business: b) c) togotospace c) Richard Wright cc) to receive a tenured professorship O. Davis was the first African American General in the US Army. 1919 b) 1940 cc) _Lilies of the Field What year was he appointed? 1961 on page 4) (answers