Cherokee To Come Together For MLK Unity Breakfast
The annual breakfast, which promotes unity and tolerance among Cherokee County residents, will be held next Saturday in Canton.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Cherokee To Come Together For MLK Unity Breakfast
The annual breakfast, which promotes unity and tolerance among Cherokee County residents, will be held next Saturday in Canton.
Cherokee County's annual event to recognize the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will take place next weekend. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Breakfast, coordinated by Allen Temple AME Church in Woodstock, will be held 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday Jan. 19 at the Northside Hopsital-Cherokee Conference Center in Canton. The event is free and open to the public. The unity breakfast will bring together local elected officials as well as "hundreds of residents from all racial, political, social and religious backgrounds to promote unity among the citizens of the county," according to the church's press release. Sherri Monger, the chair of the event, said about 600 people are expected to attend this year's festivities. Fox 5 Atlanta …
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Nominations Sought For MLK Unity Award
The recipient will recognized at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Nominations Sought For MLK Unity Award
The recipient will recognized at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast.
There are only 11 days to submit your nominee to be considered for the 2013 MLK Unity Award. The award, which will be given during the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Breakfast in January, was established in 1999 and recognizes an individual who has made a positive impact on the community by encouraging positive racial and cultural relations. The nominee must be a resident of Cherokee County or someone who has contributed to the county by engaging in positive racial and cultural relationships on a local, regional and national level. The deadline to submit nominations is Dec. 31. Submission forms can be mailed to Allen Temple AME Church at 232 Arnold Mill Road in Woodstock. Forms can also be faxed to (770) 926-1103 or emailed to …
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Woodstock Church To Open Lactation Room
The new room at Allen Temple will be available for nursing mothers attending church events.
The North Georgia Health District this morning will host a ribbon cutting for a new lactation room at Allen Temple AME Church. The ribbon cutting will be held at 11 a.m. at the church's nursery. The church is at 232 Arnold Mill Road in Woodstock. Dr. Orin Gill of Allen Temple said the room will be available for any nursing mother who attends an event, ceremony or service at the church. He added the room's opening coincides with the health district's breast feeding awareness campaign. The ribbon cutting also coincides with the church's health fair in partnership with the health district. Allen Temple and LA Fitness will host its "Pass It On -- Good Health" festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Park at City Center in downtown Woodstock.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Church To Host Free Health Fair
The event is part of statewide initiative to promote healthy living
A Woodstock church will hold a health fair as part of a statewide campaign to encourage an active lifestyle among Georgia residents. Allen Temple AME Church's Pass It On - Good Health Celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday Sept. 29 at the Park at City Center in downtown Woodstock. The event is free and open to the public. The initiative is part of September as Georgia SHAPE Month, which was designated by Gov. Nathan Deal earlier this year. It encourages residents to participate in a slew of health and fitness activities during the month. LA Fitness will be on hand to provide instructional classes and activities for families while the North Georgia Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will promote healthy cooking …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
MLK Breakfast Moves to Canton
Since 1999, the breakfast has been held at Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Woodstock.
Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Woodstock, which has hosted the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast since its inception in 1999, is moving the event to the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Conference Center in Canton this year. The breakfast, set for 9 to 11 a.m. Jan. 14, is open to all Cherokee County residents. In the past, about 200 people attended, mostly event organizers and county leaders. Organizers hope the new venue will encourage a larger turnout from church and school groups and area residents. "The vision that Pastor (Carl) Moore gave us is to take it outside the walls of the church," said Sherri Monger, event chairperson. "We don't just want to community leaders to attend. We want the community to attend." The Allen Temple …
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
He Exchanged One Classroom for Another
Pastor Carl Moore’s path to Allen Temple A.M.E. Church started in education, corporate worlds.
Pastor Carl Moore is the grandson of a Baptist minister, and grew up attending church. He led music programs, directed church choirs. But it wasn't until he was 40 that he came to know the Lord. "My son was in middle school when I came to the Lord," Moore said. "He was 13 or 14, my oldest daughter was 11. They had seen me in church, leading the choir. At home, they had seen the other side of me, the hypocritical side." His path to salvation in 1982 wasn't an easy one. Moore grew up in Beloit, AL, during the civil rights era. Beloit is less than 10 miles from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of one of the movement's seminal moments: Bloody Sunday. Moore was expelled from Montgomery's Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) …
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Artist's Corner
Poet Shares Book with Allen Temple
Published poet Willie Mae Crump signed copies of her book Rhymes for Reasons: A Personal Journey of Prose and Prayer last week for fellow congregants of Allen Temple A.M.E. Church.
Willie Mae Crump will always remember the day in 1972 when she made her friend Clella Pranty cry, perhaps because it was the same day she began to fully understand the true power of her own poetry. As a new bride who was getting ready to move to New Jersey with her husband Lionel, Crump had received the departing gift of a huge dictionary from Pranty, a colleague from the Silver Burdett Publishing Company. "I wrote a Thank You note to her in the form of a poem," Crump said. "And I remember to this very day the last sentence in the poem: 'My experiences may come, and my jobs may vary, but I'll never forget who gave me this beautiful dictionary.'" Crump said she read the note, and tears started streaming down her cheeks. "At that moment, I …
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Tomi Johnson
11:09 am on Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Thomasena Morris Johnson We bought several books and had Sis. Crump autograph for family members. When they read some of the poems, tears welled up in their eyes...truly an emotional gift. Thanks for covering this event. more ›