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All About You
One Church One Child Of Florida, Inc.
CELEBRATING OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY!
EDDIE JOE AND ANGELA MARTIN
If you want something to last forever you treat it special. You shield it and protect it. We have shield and protected each other 20 years.
Eddie Joe and Angela Martin.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
‘CARLTON AND NIKKI PEASE
June 24, 2017
Happy Birthday’ to Carlton and Nikki Pease.
"We are another year older and much more wiser." Thank God for a blessful year!!
“Consider Adopting or Mentoring Siblings”
One Church One Child of Florida is reaching out to families and individuals in local communities across the state in efforts to help share the truth that there are chil- dren waiting for a permanent home and/or mentor.
Daily, over 700 children are in need of a family to call their own; many of them are minorities. Can you provide a loving, permanent home for these children or consider be- coming their mentors?
Churches are asked to partner with One Church One Child in sharing information with congregations and ex- tending Watch-Care Min- istries to children.
Rev. Beverly Hills Lane,
State President for One Church One Child of Florida and Vice-President for Na- tional One Church One Child, is challenging fellow Pastors to get involved and encourag- ing families to open their hearts and homes to children in foster care.
These series of articles fea- ture children located in com-
MARQUELE By Erica Csatlos
...Children’s Board Gallery Tampa Bay
Heart
matic young man with a big heart. He loves science, and wants to become a chemical engineer when he grows up. He has an insatiable curios- ity, and once he latches on to an idea or interest, he’s de- termined to follow it through.
Marquele is a good and loyal friend, and a diehard Seahawks fan! Although he’s been through a lot in his young life, Marquele still has the simple desire of any kid; to be special to someone. He will thrive in a home with one or two loving, under- standing parents, and will do best as the youngest or only child.
If you are interested in knowing more about Mar- quele and other children in foster care available for adop- tion, or if you would like to become a foster parent, men- tor, partner or volunteer, please contact LaKay Fayson, Recruitment Coor- dinator for One Church One Child of Florida’s SunCoast Region, at (813) 740-0210 or lakay_fayson@ococfl.org.
The website for One Church One Child of Florida is www.ococfl.org.
munities across the state; they have no family identified to adopt them. June’s child is highlighted in this article; he too deserves to have a family.
Featured here in the June series of photographs is Marquele.
“I Like Who I Am!”
Marquele is a charis-
An Evening With An Actor
Progress Village & Local News
Oscar Simmons, center, with his aunt, Gustava Harvey and his dad, James O. Simmons, Jr. at the Ulele Restaurant.
Tampa native Oscar Sim- mons was in town recently. Simmons is a professional actor and a pharmacist by trade. It was a special oppor- tunity to get to know an up and coming actor. And, it was also an opportunity to learn more about the business and what it takes to break into the movie industry.
Simmons was in town to appear in the film, "The Fa- vorite." While in town, he would record the audition for "Queen Sugar" and prepare for an audition for "Green- leaf."
Several local actors/ac- tresses had dinner with Oscar at the popular restau- rant Ulele's in downtown Tampa. The evening was co- ordinated by Geri Kelly, the Director of the most recent plays, "The Fullness of Time" and "The Christmas Post,"
produced at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
The actors present were:
Carrol Ingram, Pavonne Scott, Christina McDon- ald, Alice Santana (Com- munity Program Manager, Patel Conservatory Straz Cen- ter), Andre Ezeugwu, Kendon Drake and Beryl Colbert (Dance Choreogra- pher).
The group was joined by Oscar's father, James Oscar Simmons, Jr., his aunt, Gustava Harvey and his niece, Alaina Gibson.
Oscar's career has taken off this past year. He can be seen in the new series "Tales" on BET on June 27th and in Tyler Perry's "Haves and Have Nots" on July 18, 2017.
Don't miss the opportunity to see a Tampa native in these shows!!! (Photographs by BRUNSON)
Birthday Celebrants
‘Happy Birthday’ to all cel- ebrating June birthdays!
Rockey Vann, 6/23, Lizzie Banks, 6/23, Nathaniel Scott, 6/25, Hosea Daniels, 6/29 and Richard Barr, 6/29.
Sick and Shut-Ins
Lifting up our fellow Vil- lagers and friends in prayer: Mary Hobley, Johnnie Mae Garner, Keith Ennis, Marion Washing- ton, Ernestine Turner, Ernest Kitchen, Odessa and Charles Roberts, Gwendola Small, Bertha Kemp and Robbin Taylor.
Expressions Of Sympathy
This week Progress Village has lost another “Pioneer” of the community. We send our condolences to the family of Stanley Turner.
Also keep in prayer the family of Thomas “TJ” Young.
“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
My Brothers 2 Keep Ministry
To have free greeting cards and Bibles mailed to Florida inmates, send requests to: My Brothers 2 Keep Ministry, P. O. Box 89174, Tampa, FL 33689.
Meals On Wheels Of Tampa Needs Volunteers
Are you looking for a way to help our community? Meals on Wheels of Tampa (MOW Tampa) is in need of additional volunteers to help deliver meals in Hillsborough County.
MOW Tampa is a non- profit community organiza- tion. Volunteers are the heart of the organization. It takes
approximately 1 hour or so of your time and volunteers are able to choose which day, and the frequency, to deliver meals based on availability. MOW Tampa also welcomes one-time, substitute/on-call, drivers.
For more information about volunteering with Meals On Wheels, or for other ways to give, please visit: www.MOWTampa.org or call (813) 238-8410.
Register for the 14th Annual Neighborhoods
Conference!
The conference is sched- uled for July 15, 2017 from 8:30a.m.to2:30p.m.atthe Sheraton Tampa East (in Sabal Park).
Register for FREE: http://www.hillsborough- county.org/en/calendar/04- publicevents/2017/20170715 -neighborhoods-conference.
Be prepared this Hurricane Season!
FYI
Call and share your excit- ing news (birthdays, anniver- saries, special events, reunions, etc.) for Progress Village and surrounding areas to Linda Washing- ton, (813) 741-3604.
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