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16th Ex-Con Reunion
Mentors For Ministry 10-Year Reunion Production Termed A Huge Success!
Is An Effort To Win
Souls For Christ
BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor
The 2017 event will focus on women who have been incarcerated and would like to share their testimonies.
Minister Brennon Bat- tles and his wife, Sharon Battles will be hosting the 16th Annual Ex-Con Reunion on Saturday, August 12, 2017. The event will be held at Manifestations Worldwide, 3102 E. Lake Ave., Tampa (33610). Dr. Mark Jones is the pastor. The theme for 2017 is “Empowering Change Within Us All.”
The previous reunions have focused on men, Mrs. Battles explained, and some women felt offended. “But this year we want to have the testimonies of some women to help some others to get on and stay on a straight path,” she said. “Our goal is winning souls for Jesus.”
The Ex-Con Reunion was birthed by 8 men who were incarcerated at the same time at the same facility. They were at Marion Correctional Insti- tution. Minister Battles, Dr. Darrell Tolbert, Noble Washington (founder), Jamie Robin- son, Bishop Mike Ma-
MINISTER BRENNON (BB) AND SHARON BATTLES
hone, Pastor Willie Allen, Oliver Shockley and Min- ister Joseph Suggs, put their ideas together to come up with the reunion. They are all busy sharing the Word of God in some form of ministry.
Minister Battles, known as “BB,” is an electri- cian, who owns Beast Electrics. He said he and his wife formed a ministry, “Sons and Testimony of Deliverance Ministry.”
“We travel about the country with our ministry,” Mrs. Battles said. “Minis- ter Battles brings the Word and I sing.”
Those who would like more information about the reunion and would like to share their testimony, please call (813) 391-2746 or (813) 494-8282.
Ms. Dorothy Moore with the banner that has the faces of most of those who were participants in “Mentors For Ministry” through the pro- gram at Christ of Calvary Community Church.
“Bring me all my flowers today, whether white, yellow or red. I’d rather have one little rose now than a truck load when I’m dead!”
Pastor P. Tucker- Johnson On Friday, July 14th, Pas- tor Tucker-Johnson says her flowers showed up at the Inkwell Center to support the Mentors For Ministry
Members of the cast preparing for the stage production.
Members of the cast acting out the production.
10-year reunion production! The 6 p. m. production was held at Inkwell Center.
“We had a full house. Standing room only!,” she said. The production told the story of how and when the Mentors For Ministry was formed at Christ of Cal- vary Community Church,
and the path that the youth took.
“This production was an enlightment to spiritual war- fare at its best. Lives were touched during the produc- tion, as was evidenced after Adria Johnson sang her rendition of “The Battle Is Not Yours.”
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