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Mistakes Can Make You Better

There Are No If, Ands, Or Buts About It!

A Letter From The Editor

One of the hardest things for me to do is to admit that I made a mistake. It is not because I think that I’m perfect; it’s because I try A Letter from the Editor real hard to get things right the first time. If only I had listened when I was instructed to slow down and take my time, chances are I would be blemish free. Yet, how much fun would that have been? It would tomorrow didn’t arrive? mistakes All of your plans, hopes deny meWhat from if the experience of making and learning from wouldn’t have a street to park to on.prevent What ifthem them,and anddreams the challenge of developing methods everything again. that you decided to put off until tomorrow never from happening happened? There would be no reason to save for a rainy day,we and you could someone the ittrouble When can admit tospare our shortcomings, says a of lotmaking about our promises.

What if your last opportunity seemingly expired character. It reveals that we are not too prideful or ashamed.

It also do? that can often consume us when helpstoday? us to letWhat loosewould of theyou burdens we allow tough situations to become perpetual.

I’ve been told that I often seem like I do too much.

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Relinquish your pride in me Hesomething doesn’t bless just so that we can go around with and our nose acquireabout life. what we have. He does it so that others in thereturn air, boasting can see His work through us. Just as a young boy watches his father shave and for work or a young girl that helps Theprepare best advice evereach givenmorning, to me happened when someone her mother prepare a meal for their family, there are others who told me to make my tomorrow happen today.

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I would importantly make it count. rather live my life, trying to find Life is but a whisper and ways to lovewe everyone, even those who must put ourselves in a don’t give it back, than to waste position to hear what it is an opportunity live and never know tellingtous. what it feels like to love.

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CONTENTS

A Ray Of Hope

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Dr. Erika Hendrix

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Divine Lemonade

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Brown Girl What Do You See

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The Roller Coaster of Life

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The Food Truck Takeover

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Caring For Your Family

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Classy Meets Fabulous

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Back To School Wisdom

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Consultation For Non Profits

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Kisha Mitchell

Demetra Moore Patricia Neal

One Care Inc. Subira Boutique

Attorney Candace Morton

Antonina Griffith

Paul Gilmer

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J Murphy Consultants

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Educator & Assistant Principal

Kisha Mitchell Asks

“Brown Girl, What Do You See?”

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isha Mitchell says she was inspired to write her book, ​ Brown Girl, Brown Girl What Do You See?​after starting a girl’s mentoring group for her middle school students. She noticed a trend within the 7th graders girls of how they weren’t very confident and tended to lack interpersonal skills to communicate with others due to the insecurities that they had within themselves. Her passion for writing this book was furthered even more after giving birth to her first daughter.

“It was my personal mission to instill pride in my daughter from the time she was born. I told her that she was beautiful and that her hair was beautiful and she believed me,” says Mitchell.

All too soon, her efforts had been undone at the

age of three when someone in her daughters pre­school class told her that her brown skin was not beautiful; that child challenged her daughters belief. How could this happen so early, Mitchell asked herself. “My family and I were devastated and a result we went into brown is beautiful overload,” she says. When she is upset about things, Mitchell tends to write. Brown Girl is what she wrote during her time of heartbreak. It was a love letter to her two daughters and all of her former brown students, to let them know to love themselves and that their brown skin is amazing.

She feels that it is important to keep books in front of our children at a young age that resemble who they are. “Just as Marley Dias stated, all of the books that our children are exposed to at elementary ages are largely not about the brown girl. Diversity in reading is pertinent to the development of reading skills. It is important to

the literacy of our children to have an option of reading things that reflect them to peek his or her interest in reading,” she says. “In today’s society it is so difficult for children to gain a positive self­ image with what is presented to them in media as it pertains to brown women, girls and beauty. It is imperative that we begin speaking life into our daughters and girls in our lives at an early age and Brown Girl is a great place to start the dialogue.”

As the production of this book began, it was apparent that there is a movement occurring among brown women. Many are proudly standing up realizing that they are beyond classically beautiful; they are intelligent and more than enough. This book is a perfect tool that helps young girls begin building the confidence that adult women are experiencing. h

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The Roller Coaster of Life

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n your best days things are great, the perfect time for starting your business or taking your certification. The next day it seems as of the sky is falling and you can’t get a break. This period is what I call the roller coaster of life.

Many of us would like for our lives to be predictable and remain steady. But, storms exist for everyone and they can’t be avoided.

You don’t have power of the situations, but you do you have power over your responses. In most cases panicking is the first response, but understand it’s not your only choice. Panicking can cause you to walk away from situations feeling defeated.

To better cope with the cycles of life understand everyone gets knocked down from time to time, but the important thing is to not get counted out.

If you would like to better position yourself during difficult times you will have to: Stay Focused- Be consistent in your drive and ambition toward your goals. Keep a list of your accomplishments. This kind of list will provide positive inspiration. Keep the big picture clear and don’t get absorbed in the mundane routine of life.

Be firm in your stance – Show confidence in what you are working toward. If you feel as though you can’t move forward, hold tight to your current position. Most importantly don’t waver because things didn’t turn out the way you planned.

Commit to your goal - Life will continue to have ups and downs. In each uncomfortable moment you have an opportunity learn something, but giving up is not an option.

Take the lessons from each situation and apply to your repertoire of professional development.

Coping with the roller coaster of life can be tiresome at times. Most people don’t like being outside of their comfort zone. But take a minute compose yourself, and get prepared you have what it takes and lots of resilience. h If you have additional questions about handling lives 336-834-2654 situations send a detailed email to info@mooreoutoflife.com

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​ tonina Griffin travels the n world telling her story and promoting her business.

Today she’s a highly sought after inspirational speaker and business advisor. Some might even say she’s living the good life. However, it wasn’t that long ago that her life and everything she knew was a perfect example of the polar opposite.

By most accounts there was nothing magical or magnificent about her childhood and certainly wasn’t indicative of the blessed life she now enjoys.

“I spent the first 20 years of my life in what some would call the hood, projects or low income/noincome housing,” said Griffin. “My mom passed away when I was nine years old and my father was never around. My grandmother, Ruth Barrett, did her very best at raising my younger brother and myself. Growing up in a poverty stricken environment; life was tough.”

“I was molested by a close family friend. I witnessed my mom being physically abused.

Violence was all around me, but so was love. My grandmother loved me dearly. She loved me all the way up until her last breath. She died when I was 18 years old.”

When her grandmother died she felt her world ended. However, Griffin said it was her son who kept her alive. However, even that wasn’t quite enough. She couldn’t find the answers to the hard question that were constantly racing through her mind. What was she supposed to do? How could she be a good mother? With only a high school diploma, no guidance, or encouragement, what could she do?

After having her son, Griffin suddenly found herself stuck. With no money, real family or friends to depend on, she began doing whatever she needed to do to survive and to maintain some semblance of a decent life, including selling drugs. The heartache that she endured as a child only compounded as she grew older. Instead of finding the love and satisfaction that she so desperately sought after, she found their counterfeit counterparts.

Before Griffin knew it, she was a single mother of four children with three different fathers. She became haunted by the unsavory names people chose to call her and soon thereafter began to play the role in which she was cast. As determined as she was not to, she began repeating the cycle and lifestyle that she witnessed as a child with her own mother.

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Pictured with Antonina is her husband, Darin.

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Even after trying multiple times to “get her life together” by going to church like her grandmother had taught and raised her to do, she always found herself back in the same rut and engaging in her old activities and tendencies. “I started hanging out in a different project. It was there where I learned about life. And it was there where I started searching for love in all the wrong places,” she said. After a night of partying and clubbing, Griffin chose to hang out with a guy at a hotel. Once she got there her intuition told her that something just wasn’t right and she made a decision to leave, but her friend refused to accept her change of heart. In the blink of an eye her life was forever changed. It was several years later before she revealed to anyone that she was raped that night. “I kept the rape from everyone for years and the first person I told was my childhood friend of 30 years,” she said. As difficult as that night was and coupled with all the other issues she held, Griffin said, “Instead of dealing with molestation, rape, feelings of abandonment and rejection, I swept it under the rug and I looked to men more to validate me.”

Pictured above are Antonina’s and Darin’s family. From (l to r) are Kyijha 17, Kwanye’ 20, Raven 25, Kwamez 22, and Kyizhay 15.

It took a great deal of time for Griffin to come to terms with her past, but eventually she did. However, it wasn’t something she did on her own. As a matter of fact, it took an intervention. God intervened and changed her life. “When I discovered Jesus, I discovered Antonina. I understood that it was all a part of my purpose. It was God that got me through it. The pain of life was sometimes unbearable and so I had to rely on the Word of God,” she said. “When I made the decision to stop clubbing, hustling, and devaluing myself by sleeping with men to make myself feel better, which by the way made me feel worse, and made the decision to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior, then I realized He was all the man I ever needed. That one decision changed my life for the better!” Her relationship with God not only helped mend and repair all the broken and dysfunctional areas in her life, but it paved the way for her to develop and cultivate, other functional and healthy relationships, especially with men.

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Continued from page 10 Today Griffin is happily married to Darin Griffin, whom she met at church. She credits her God-sent husband as the one who helped her “unpack” all of the “baggage” in her life.

“God sent me a man that helped me. Some stuff I needed to hold on to like the lessons behind the pain and other stuff I needed to get rid of, like excuses that caused the pain,” she said. “Now that I understand that the pain led to my purpose I’m in a thriving state of mind. When I was trying to figure Antonina out I was a survivor because I continued to live despite the hardship and danger. However, when I started walking into my purpose I started to flourish, prosper, grow, develop, bloom, blossom, succeed and profit. I became a thriver. It wasn’t easy, but it’s safe to say I’m in a great state.”

She’s not just in a great state; she’s in greatness overdrive. Her energy has changed; her effort has changed; and her motivation has changed.

Griffin is currently a national director in Total Life Changes, a natural health and wellness business that simultaneously promotes increased health options for consumers and offers opportunities for those same customers to change their socioeconomic status through a rewarding compensation plan. In fact, the plan is so rewarding and has been such a blessing to Griffin and her family, she has been able to add to her net worth by purchasing Prominence Funeral Services in Thomasville, N.C. Now a certified, legitimate businesswoman, walking in her purpose, Griffin uses every opportunity she has to not only tell her story, but help others, especially women, discover their purposes all while taking care of their health. She uses her book, “Perfectly Out of Order” as well as what she calls purposed “connections.”

“My amazing mentor told me that what you go through determines the type of people you minister or talk to. So I connect with people through their struggle. I know everything I went through wasn’t for me, but it was for me to help others come out,” she said. “I don’t have a lot of “friends” that I hang out with, but I have a lot of purpose that I must fulfill. I can only fulfill my purpose by praying and asking God to connect me to the people that he wants to connect me to.”

While Griffin is making purpose driven connections, she’s also looking to reach her personal goals, including opening a charter school in the very near future as well as conducting more of her “Loving My Inner Me” women’s retreats in the mountains of Pigeon Forge. However, Griffin says there’s much more to be done and she’s determined more than ever to get it done. Quoting one of her friends, she says, “I’m here for my dreams to evolve and not evaporate.” h

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“My amazing mentor told me that what you go through determines the type of people you minister or talk to.

So I connect with people through their struggle. I know everything I went through wasn’t for me, but it was for me to help others come out.”

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A Ray Of Hope Ministries

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hristianity looks different in different areas. Ministering, pastoring and preaching follows suit. If anyone knows how to navigate and relate to different people and different styles of worship its Pastors Perry and Angelene Hill. From Nebraska to Germany to Oklahoma to Georgia and Colorado then back to Germany, the two former U.S. military and federal government employees have faithfully served their country, as well as their Lord.

Beginning in 1992, the Fayetteville, N.C. natives spent 15 years pastoring a military church in Germany. The ministry was under the Church of God in Christ governing body in connection with the military. Although designed and instituted especially for members of the military, local German civilians often joined the congregation. There was nothing average or typical about their assimilated congregation, but to the Hills it was an amazing testament to the universal message and power of Christianity. “It was very refreshing and encouraging. It made us aware that it wasn’t your everyday cultural church setting,” said Angelene. “We learned to accommodate different cultures and people that worshipped God in different forms. One person may raise their hands in worship while another might be more jubilant. We embraced the different cultural types of worship. It was good for the natives as well as the Americans.”

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As the senior pastor, Perry says that it took some time getting used to delivering a sermon with an interpreter if locals were involved in the service. “You had to wait for the interpretation and the interpreter had to be as enthusiastic as you were,” he said. “We learned how to deliver a message in all different forms and fashions. However, it was a great experience to see the same spirit and God move on different people even though they all didn’t speak the same language.”

Nonetheless, there were military-related issues that the pair had to adjust to dealing with that wouldn’t be as prevalent in standard churches. Spouses were often left alone while their counterparts served their country in a foreign land. The associated temptations and issues were constant causes for counseling and teaching sessions. “It’s easy to introduce infidelity in that type of environment,” said Angelene. However, as a military wife herself, she was able to relate to the women and understand their unique perspectives, as could Perry with the men.

While members were committed to their faith they were also committed to their country and station, which often meant, due to the rotation cycle of the military, the church experienced large amounts of families joining and leaving the ministry every three years. It seemed by the time the pastors and congregants got used to one another a rotation would occur and they had to constantly prepare themselves to minister to new people and often, new problems.

Pastoring the church in Hohenfels, Germany, in addition to Angelene’s sevenmonth stent as an interim pastor of a military-only church, was training ground for the ministering duo. The Lord began preparing them for the time in which they wouldn’t be pastoring, but still preaching and teaching the Gospel. In 1997, A Ray of Hope Ministries was birthed in Nuremberg, Germany. As the Hills transitioned back to the U.S., the new ministry took root and nearly 20 years later it has grown and expanded throughout North Carolina and across the United States.

“When we came back to the U.S., I pastored a church in Mooresville, N.C. for about four years. During that time God took us to another level in prayer,” said Angelene.

“God would get us up early in the mornings for intercessory prayers and conference call prayers. That was 10 years ago and we still do it to this day. Bits and pieces of the ministry we do now originated during that time.”

The Hills spent many years as faithful pastors and shepherds of churches, but God called A Ray of Hope Ministries beyond the four walls of a traditional church. They describe the ministry as “a bit of everything” for the Lord. “We literally take church with us. God has given A Ray of Hope Ministries a special anointing for prayer. We love doing prayer vigils or what used to be called shut-ins,” said Angelene. “We were recently called out to California to do a 72-hour shut-in. We went in at 6 p.m. on a Thursday and left at 6 a.m. on Sunday. It was beyond powerful.”

Pastors Angelene & Perry Hill A Ray Of Hope Ministries 336-290-2360 www.arayofhopeministries.org

Through the ministry, the Hills organized what they call The Prayer Chapel. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6:15 a.m. believers from across the country unite together in prayer for 15 minutes via conference call in order to command what the Lord has designed for that day. In fact, the prayer is called, “Divine Aligning Your Day.” The Prayer Chapel: “Where Intercessors are Developed” occurs every Sunday morning from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Coordinated by Angelene, the goal of the prayer time is to intercede on behalf of others.

Having studied intercessory prayer, the Hills believe God has revealed unto them the premise of intercessory prayer so that they can reveal it unto others. “We also spend time with those who show interest in being intercessors, teaching them and giving instruction via the prayer line. Intercessory prayer is different it’s not just about me and my four and no more,” said Angelene. “The prayers are focused on the world and society at large, political situations and whatever the Holy Spirit leads us to pray about.”

Although A Ray of Hope Ministries takes the Hills across the country sharing the Gospel, they are both active members of New Dimensions COGIC in Mebane, N.C. and both lead various ministries within the church and humbly submit to leadership. A nondenominational ministry, A Ray of Hope conference call prayers are open to anyone and everyone seeking to gain a greater relationship and knowledge of God. According to the Hills, prayer is one tool that God has given unto believers to literally change situations and circumstances.

“The condition of the world is why God has called for intercessors. The enemy has caused us to become so busy that typically if anything gets pushed to the side its God,” said Angelene. “However, it’s a trick; we have to get back on the wall and in prayer.

The scripture says in 2 Chronicles 7:14, “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” h

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Neal is the founder, owner and operator of Divine Lemonades.

Appropriately named “Divine Lemonades,” since she says she was “divinely” given the name and recipes for her drinks.

“Everything about the drinks is all natural. God gave me the recipe and I’ve been making it for nearly 16 years. It’s a combination of different things that gives it such a smooth and divine taste,” said Neal. “The business just grew out of something I just always did for myself. I’m the baby of eight siblings and whenever we had family functions I always made the tea and lemonade. I’ve always had the recipe. But it just wasn’t time yet for [the business] to be birthed.”

In the process of discovering her destiny and Divine Lemonades, Neal endured heartache and sickness nearly everywhere she turned. At one point in her life she found herself in a rocky relationship, married to a drug addict. The repercussions and ramifications from that alone would be enough to shake even the strongest person, but Neal held fast to her lifeline, which has always been her faith in God. She trusted God and did what she had to do for her three children and for herself.

Little did she know three years ago that her faith as well as her health would be put to the test yet again. After doctors detected a very large tumor in her breast, Neal was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. She had to endure surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, but even in her seemingly dire and desperate situation, God worked a miracle.

The cancer spread throughout her breast and doctors told her she would have to have a mastectomy, endure strong treatment options to keep the cancer from further invading her body and ultimately live a diminished-quality life. But Neal said God worked a miracle.

“The tumor shrunk on its own to the size of a raisin.

The doctors told me I would have to have 20 rounds of chemotherapy; I only had four. They told me I would have to use walkers, bed pans, shower chairs, require a nurse and basically be a vegetable, but none of that happened. God gave me a revelation of the word cancer. Cancer contains the word “can.”

When I saw that I said, ‘no matter what, I can do this. I can beat this,’” she says.

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fter only one taste of Divine Lemonades nearly everyone has the same reaction: Amazing! That tastes great. I need more. It’s usually followed up by a battery of questions and comments such as, How did you make that? What are the ingredients? It can’t be good for you! It has to be full of sugar, right? What’s the recipe? How did you come up with those flavors? The list goes on and on.

Most people can’t quite adequately articulate the rich, yet light and refreshing taste of Divine Lemonades; but to put it quite simply, Divine Lemonades taste…divine. It’s partly how the drinks name was derived, but more importantly it’s because the business and recipe came through “divine” impartation. There are only two problems with Divine Lemonades: once people taste the refreshing drink they simply can’t stop drinking it and owner, master “lemonade maker” Patricia Neal can’t seem to quench their unending thirst. Of course, that’s more of a dilemma for their pockets, but most people are more than willing to pay as long as they can get some of Neal’s “Heaven In A Bottle.”

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Throughout her health issues, God had people strategically introduced and placed in Neal’s life to make sure she was loved and cared for. Although she didn’t have very many blood family members she could depend on, in fact some nearly turned their backs on her, she was blessed with new “just like family” brothers, sisters and even parents. She was given people who not only encouraged her and spoke life into her situation, but literally made themselves physically available to make sure she and her children had everything they needed.

It was people like Tammara “Sissy” Broadnax, who couldn’t be closer to Neal than a blood sister, who stepped into her life at just the right time. Broadnax stood by her side throughout her illness, held fundraisers , assisted with her children and eventually became her business partner, serving as the operations manager for Divine Lemonades.

“I met Patricia when she became a member of the church I belong to. Our friendship kicked off and grew. I don’t have biological brothers and sisters,” said Broadnax. “God places people in your life for a reason and he has given me extended family who I consider my brothers and sisters and Patricia is one of them.” “When Patricia was diagnosed with breast cancer, I saw the fear and uncertainty of the unknown invade her thoughts. I assured her that with advances in technology and with the God we serve, this diagnosis did not have to be a death sentence and we would get through this together. As a true friend and sister, I could not turn my back on her. I was there to support Patricia during this time.”

In addition to Broadnax, Neal’s children, who range in age from 16 to 24, including daughter Morgan and son Sam, pitched in everywhere they could, even running her mobile car wash and keeping the business afloat when Neal simply wasn’t physically able to handle the demands of the job. As she thinks back, she notes so many others who helped her when she was down and sowed seeds into Divine Lemonades, including her brothers and sistersin-law Melvin and Shirley Neal and Leon and Darlene Neal, Tena McNeil, Kay Neal and her surrogate parents Ronald and Margaret Colbert.

With so much help and encouragement around her and a body on the mend, Neal was finally able to devote more attention to her businesses, especially Divine Lemonades, but just when she thought all was well, her health was once again attacked. She became ill with pneumonia, which was readily treated, but when the antibiotics she was given negatively reacted with her chemotherapy medication her body completely shut down. Doctors were seconds away from having to shock her heart back to life, but at the last moment God intervened and yet again she now stands as a miracle.

Just like her miraculous life, Neal says Divine Lemonades is a testament to what God can do in His own timing. Although she has been making the drinks for years, only since February 2016 has it been available to the general public and made available in currently 15 stores throughout Eden, Reidsville and Greensboro, North Carolina as well as Ridgeway, Virginia. To Neal, the time wasn’t right until recently because God had to take her through a process first.

To date she offers 16 flavors of lemonade and tea including, original lemonade, mango, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, lime, kiwi and grape and tea blends including sweet tea, tea and lemonade mix, peach, mango and raspberry tea.

At price points of $1.49 and $1.99 people can’t seem to get enough of Divine Lemonades. Stores stocked with 300-500 bottles a week quickly sell out and as Neal puts it, “panic” until the shelves are restocked. One storeowner who’s been in business since 1977 said he’s never had anything sell out as fast as Divine Lemonades.

Original Passion Fruit Raspberry Tea Mango 1/2 Tea - 1/2 Lemonade Strawberry Peach Pineapple

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Tentatively scheduled to open in mid-October, customers will soon be able to walk into Neal’s own storefront to purchase her delicious drinks. With a goal of one day opening a Divine Lemonades manufacturing and distribution facility in Reidsville, bringing jobs to the area, Neal is literally taking the sour lemons in her life and turning them into Divine Lemonade.

Patricia Neal will be giving a percentage of her sales to help support breast cancer research and in memory of her late mother, Mrs. Mamie Wray-Neal. She also plans to give a percentage of her sales to the American Heart Association. h

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By Terry L. Watson Photos by Sitll Shots Photography i’Nyaa Bunch is not only a person but a brand.

She also has a vision for a business that will accelerate her desserts, Mz. Bunche’z Sweet Eat’z, to be available in a national chain of restaurants.

It all began in the fall of 2013 after Ki’Nyaa overcame many of life obstacles such as spontaneously relocating to Greensboro, N.C. from Ossining, N.Y., and even becoming homeless and unemployed with an 11-year-old daughter. She had a very limited amount of finances, support and resources, and no one to turn to for help after the people who encouraged her to come to Greensboro later turned their backs on her upon arrival.

After being denied assistance from the government and local churches, she had to find a way to provide and stay afloat. It was a “go hard or go home” situation and Ki’Nyaa knew she wasn’t going home. “After speaking to my late, Grandma Annie Bunch, she told me to pray and cook with love. Once I applied her advice to my life, my situation started to change,” she says. “I started meeting people who needed and wanted to eat.” By October 2013, she was so grateful for the people who had helped her and began to think of ways to thank them. Still surviving with very limited resources, she decided to bake everyone a cake. ““I had no clue what I was doing, however I took my grandmothers advice, prayed and did it with love,” she says. “The feedback was OK, but it wasn’t good enough, so I set my sights even further. She started baking for random people including school secretaries, social workers, homeless shelters, and anyone who she thought would appreciate an act of kindness. The responses were so positive that people started contacting her to purchase cakes for the holiday seasons, and she’s been rolling ever since.

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Mz. Bunche’z Sweet Eat’z dessert line is her main attraction which consists of fresh baked cakes, cookies, brownies, cake jars and cupcake bouquets. Homemade ice cream and smoothies are in the works to be added to her inventory. “I have recently started doing weekly meal planning for clients that don’t have time to prepare their own meals. I also do single meals as well as family meals for a week,” she says.

Ki’Nyaa says her life has been mostly impacted by her family, especially her brother Lamont, sister Naomi, and daughter Akiera.

Others who have poured into her include a few friends and her spiritual advisor, Pastor Zeb Talley, lll. She says Pastor Talley saw a business in her and took a chance by allowing her to provide her signature desserts for his book signing. It helped put a jump start into something that she thought would take a lot longer to progress. “My biggest inspirations are the social media sweet groups, particularly the Facebook forum, “The Sweet Success Project”, started by Cydni Mitchell of Atlanta, Ga. “It has helped me with the business portion of my business, from time management, contracts, pricing, and promoting and marketing,” she says.

In the next five years Ki’Nyaa says she would love to see her desserts and meals featured on TV shows and in nationally distributed magazines. Some of the most profound advice she says she has received came from Chef Schonberg of Chef Schonberg’s Sweets in Baton Rouge, LA. She told her to find her niche and perfect it, and her niche is going to be what she loves to do. Another very successful entrepreneur from Greensboro told Ki’Nyaa that her excellence isn’t by accident.​ h

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Dr. Erika H. Hendrix B.S., M. Div., D.D.

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n the opening night of the DNC Convention America had the great fortuity to hear our FLOTUS, Michele Obama, speak to us about how black America has evolved to this place. There where many points that she made that illuminated for black America and on in particular was the privilege to live in house built by slaves. FLOTUS also gave us insight into a life lesson that she and POTUS have taught their girls, and many of us will never forget it. The lesson simply is, “When they low, we go high.”

The plight in Black America is not the absence of significance; it’s the absence of our true meaning of self. We have always been able to rise above any barrier that has been placed before us. The Millennial’s today operate from a place of fear not confidence. Dr. Howard Thurman in his book, Jesus and the Disinherited defines for us, “fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited.” This is nothing new for black America, but we must embrace the urgency to go high when others have tired to keep us low.

I have been given the opportunity to preach and teach for twenty-one years in many places and the one thing that I have observed in our congregational settings is the perpetual presence of praise. We praise not only in our sound, but in our words to those whom we fellowship with weekly. Praise and adoration was birthed out of our tradition to not give up, but to press and keep our head up high. The analogy of going low means we allow others opinion to facilitate the direction in which our lives take. The climate of fear grips us and backs us into a corner and we feel the only way to come out is to fight.

Fighting from a place of confidence is good when you know who you are. But when we fight from a place of fear and lack the assurance of knowing who we are, the target is anything or anybody that will try to stop us.

There are certain economic, social and political powers that have advantages over us; and when we lack these essential qualities it is hard to fight back when we do not know whom the real enemy is. The elementary fear of death is absent in Black America, because many have not found purpose to live for. I believe the family unit has suffered tremendously, because the family dynamics have changed. We now have more single families, blended families, grandparents that have become parents again raising a generation of Millennial’s. This generation is technologically advanced, but lacks the need for direct communication between each other.

The essence of going high means we look beyond where we currently are and see prophetically the plans that God has for us. Black America has always had a prophetic call from our ancestors. We have been able to see and overcome our plight from our low places and/ or situations by trusting and believing in a God that we could not see, but believed that God was able to deliver us to our high place in Him. The plans that God has for us cannot be comprehended by the natural mind. When we have been given the gift to see it is not just for us, but it is for those who are connected to us. The high places that God will send us are not just for ourselves, but for everyone that God has assigned to us to perpetuate a season of change. The high places in our lives out weigh every low place that we have encountered. We must be grateful for the low places because it pushed us to our next level. There have been times when it was the low places that exposed my inner sight to connect with my current situation and lead me to my destiny in God. Black America has the threat of violence and the presence of it all around us, but we must go high and not low and look beyond the threat and grab hold of the opportunities that we have been afforded.

In conclusion we do not owe this life anything, but we owe everything to God. The best way to leave your mark on this earth is to release those things that have attached themselves to you. The best way to release those things is to bury them and let go. Embrace this new life that God has given you, the deep calls for the deep. The Spirit of God is calling you from your low place to a high place of expectation, opportunity and purpose. There are places you will go and there are people you will meet so don’t limit your destination to where you are now.

Allow the spirit of God to transform you thinking, for it was good that we have been afflicted. Affliction is not crippling, it is freedom from what was and there is hope h in what shall be.

In the book of Romans 8:12-14 (The Message Bible): 12-14 So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God’s Spirit beckons.

There are things to do and places to go!

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By Terry L. Watson Photos by Perfect Lenz Photography aul Gilmer, Jr. is an entrepreneur who is driven and focused on expanding his brand to the next level. As the founder of Progress Fitness Unlimited, he has been active in the fitness industry for the past seven years. He is a certified master fitness trainer (NFPT) and certified senior fitness specialist (ISSA) and an accomplished trainer of kids through his original Kids Fit Club.

Progress Fitness Unlimited was founded in 2013.

After working in the industry for other fitness companies for several years, Gilmer decided to branch out on his own. This pivotal decision gave him the opportunity to use his own ideas and bring his dreams to fruition. Progress Fitness Unlimited has a variety of signature programs. These include mobile personal training services. Whether someone prefers to train in their home, office, apartment complex or at a local gym, their dynamic team can meet their preference.

Some of the programs available include hip-hop boot camps which are designed to encompass all fitness levels. These camps give participants a total body workout that is challenging yet, effective and safe. While training hard, the boot campers listen to a mixture of old and new school hip-hop and R&B music. They also offer a senior fitness program that takes place in a group setting or one-on-one. This training meets the needs and skill level of seniors and they are able to listen to oldies while exercising. “We have partnered with several different senior communities, rehabilitation centers and rest homes. This is a program that seniors truly enjoy,” says Gilmer.

Progress Fitness also offers strength, flexibility and balance (SFB) programs and specialized training for participants with Parkinson’s disease and other coordination impediments. There is a Kids Fit Club Program that promotes fitness and athleticism among the school-aged population. In the course of fulfilling this purpose, the program aids in reducing obesity and diabetes in the targeted population. The company seeks to help fill the gap left by the loss of required PE classes in schools. They have partnered with several different schools, summer camps and after school programs throughout the Triad area.

Lastly, there is KnockerBall, an exciting and new program, which is all about fitness Fun. They are the first and premier business in the Piedmont Triad Area offering KnockerBall, which is the new energetic contact sport that’s fun, safe, and sweeping the entire nation. Anyone can rent KnockerBall sessions for birthday parties, church events, corporate events, fundraisers, team building and much more.

Gilmer says his parents have had a major impact on his life and career.

“They are retired real estate entrepreneurs from whom I learned a strong work-ethic and passion for business. Secondly, my faith has and continues to impact my life because it keeps me grounded,” he says. “I love helping my clients achieve their goals and showing them how to tone their bodies, and lose weight through weight training.

Moving forward, Gilmer hopes to further expand the amount of products and services he offers and also bring continued awareness to his signature programs. “We are Progress Fitness, where ‘Progress’ and ‘Fitness’ go hand in hand,” says Gilmer. h ​

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J Murphy Consulting LLC

Jodie Murphy

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t a very early age, Jodie Murphy knew she was destined to be a business owner. She was that kid selling candy at school. She also got the entire basketball team to buy socks from her, as she was labeled a “go getter” by her friends and peers. Her parents laid a foundation of success for her. Her mom is a hard worker and her dad was a business owner who sold suits to Pastors and Deacons. Before her dad died, Murphy says he taught her the ropes of business and how to sell to people and how to create revenue. “I didn’t understand everything he was teaching me, but as I got older it came back to me as if he was whispering in my ear, advising me on each step to take,” she says.

Murphy is a wife, mother, entrepreneur and a world changer. She is also a God fearing, strong Black woman who isn’t scared to take chances in life. “I believe God has given everyone all that we need to succeed on the inside. We just have to be open to God and seek His direction,” she says. Murphy is a leader who loves to help people become the best they can be in any situation. “I am a hard worker and vulnerable enough to accept that I don’t know everything, but assertive enough to ask the questions needed to get the knowledge that is needed,” she says. Murphy is also very passionate about her community and helping people live their dreams.

Today, she owns J Murphy Consulting LLC where she offers end to end business consulting. “I want businesses to be able build a brand. That is accomplished with my assistance through a professional business makeover. Whether you need a website, business cards, retractable banner, or one on one consulting, we can provide it to you,” says Murphy. She also offers help with starting a business including filing documents of Incorporation and guidance to building a website, and help with making businesses visible to their targeted market by setting up different streams of social media accounts. She also provides monthly consulting packages to ensure her clients continue to get insight on how their company can grow.

J Murphy Consulting, LLC was established during the early part of this year. “I stumbled upon this business after helping Greensboro based attorney, Jason Keith establish his nonprofit, the Triad Hornets Basketball Team. Through volunteering at the Triad Basketball Academy, I learned a lot about how to establish businesses and non profits,” she says. Keith referred a guy to her who needed help with establishing his basketball organization.

She found herself consulting him through the process of business ownership, and upon completing the session with him, Murphy says she found her passion.

Murphy says she is mostly inspired by leaders because they have a huge responsibility to everyone around them. They are very impressionable to others on a daily basis because what they do, usually makes sense and people want to replicate it. “I aspire to be a leader that inspires people to be visionaries and to follow through on their dreams. My mother inspires me to be a philanthropist, just as she is. She is relentless in giving back to the community. I sit and watch her in hopes of one day being half the woman she is,” she says.

Murphy’s testimony is that she has come from being a mother at the age of 16, to graduating from high school and college. She has defeated the odds that the world set before her. “I went through a lot growing up as a teenager, but I always knew that I wanted to be in a position to help people. Through J Murphy Consulting, LLC, I can reach out to my community and help build legacies for the next generation,” she says. h

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Back To School

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y the time this article is published, school will be back in session and students will be enjoying the “honeymoon� period of their school year. This will include catching up with old friends, creating new friendships and establishing relationships with new teachers. However, time will pass, work will become challenging and friends more frustrating. It is during this period that patience with others will be minimal and tempers will sometimes soar.

The majority of individuals will be able to resolve their issues amicably.

However, there will be times when people will be tempted to resolve their issues in a dangerous and unacceptable manner such as pushing, striking or fighting the person that angered them. In North Carolina, an individual that engage in this type of behavior could find themselves facing a variety of charges including but not limited to simple assault, assault and battery, assault on a female and affray.

All of the above referenced charges are misdemeanors but still can potentially carry a jail sentence. If the situation escalates to a point where the victim is injured the charges can be elevated to a felonious level, it all depends on the facts of the case. Needless to say a conviction for this type of crime can carry lifelong consequences. It is always better to walk away from a situation when tempers flare and emotions run high because that will create the space and time needed to make a wise decision. h

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Resaell A. Haynes Beautiful Queen Enterprise

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By Dawn Cauthen Thornton Photos by Howard Gaither

ne day Resaell Haynes and a friend were having lunch at a local restaurant. During the conversation they noticed a woman sitting alone and eavesdropping.

Without an invitation, the woman joined them and offered her opinion on the topic they were discussing.

The stranger felt so comfortable confiding in Haynes that she offered her phone number and address so they could keep in touch. She felt compelled to write the stranger, turned mentee, a letter filled with Bible verses and scriptures that would help her gain clarity on the issues she had recently been dealing with. “I really thought I was just being His servant,” she says.

The Winston-Salem State and new Liberty University graduate wasn’t sure what her next step would be or how she would pursue her idea, but she felt like she was on to something positive. Not long after her chance encounter with the stranger, she was led to invite a pregnant mother to her church. She prayed with her, advised her on the tumultuous relationship she was in, and encouraged her to change her situation. “That’s when I really felt led to do more. God wouldn’t let me rest.”

Finally realizing what God wanted her to pursue, Haynes visited the small business center at Forysth Technical Community College in Winston Salem, N.C. and registered her name, created a timeline, and started the clock. She challenged herself with tasks along the way and expected a roadblock around every corner. After meeting with a business mentor, she was able to check off each task, with confidence, and on time. Since this practice easily helped her achieve her goals, she now implements the checklist with her clients. “When I create a plan, it’s strictly for them. Its tailor made especially for their situation.”

Haynes also makes sure to include Biblical principles in all of her plans. “If I don’t know anything else, I know that when you call on God, he answers,” she says.

The single mother of a nine-year-old son credits her life experiences for qualifying her to be a life strategist. Well, that, and her two degrees: a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and a master’s degree in Christian ministries. Though her faith has always came first, her education was put on the back burner after giving birth to her son in 2007. She’d lost her drive and motivation for school and found herself being a mother to a new baby and a companion to her son’s father. Soon, she felt left behind, attending the graduations of friends who entered school at the same time as she did years prior.

Finally in 2011, she decided to fulfill the dreams that her grandmother wanted for her. Being from a small town in southeastern North Carolina, Haynes’ grandmother encouraged her granddaughter to get a college education and to be successful at whatever she decided to do. Besides, she couldn’t possibly raise her son to value learning and education if she wasn’t educated herself.

After juggling school and motherhood for three years, she obtained her bachelor’s degree and was able to cross another milestone off her list. Growing tired of school, she thought she was done but God presented the two ladies that she mentored. They showed her that she could be an invaluable asset to someone’s life by just listening and sharing her own beliefs through God’s word. These interactions prompted her to pursue her master’s degree and she graduated in May 2016.

Resaell A. Haynes, BIS, MACM Life Strategist/Executive Director Beautiful Queen Enterprise 336-483-5596 www. beautifulqueenenterprise.com

When asked about her main purpose for creating this women’s empowerment organization, Haynes boasts, “I want every woman who doesn’t know who she is to walk away from Beautiful Queen Enterprise having an identity and understanding her purpose. I also want her to believe that she is loved at all times and should be respected. Then she should be able to take the information I’ve given her and implement it within her family.”

Resaell Haynes loves what she does and enjoys being a humble servant while doing it. There is no question that God is first in her life while she helps navigate others through troubled waters. She welcomes everyone who seeks her services and lives steadfastly by one of her favorite scriptures, Isaiah 52:7 – “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good news…” I’d say she brings many amazing things. h

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By Terry L. Watson Photos by Howard Gaither Photography a​ ra Davis has an enthusiastic spirit and the faith the size of a mustard seed. She also has a contagious laughter and boldness to do good. These attractive qualities are complimented by her desire to give back to her community and willingness to serve.

A native of Asheboro, N.C., Davis attended the public school system there. After graduating from high school, she earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Phoenix in Charlotte, N.C. After spending many years in the educational field, she realized there was something more she wanted to do with her life. Today she is the CEO of One Care Inc., a company who caters to the needs of the elderly right at their very own home. “We truly understand the stress of hospitalization and the hassle of traveling just to acquire the care you deserve. That is why we have decided to bring our own brand of care at your doorstep,” says Davis.

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Senior years are perhaps one of the most challenging periods in someone’s life. It is during these years that an individual can feel the limitations of their physical bodies; when it is the time to need the assistance of professionals on even the most everyday tasks. It is also the time where they will need the most emotional support to stay strong and keep moving forward in fulfilling their goals.

One Care Inc. wants to provide all around care for their clients; which is why they remain open-minded to new ideas, inventions and innovations in health care, so as to deliver a better, wider range of services which meets each and every single need of its clients.

Their employees undergo classes and training to keep them up-todate with the latest trends of home care services.

Their scope of services for hospital staffing includes ICU, telemetry, medical-surgery, pediatrics, NICU, ER and OR, labor and delivery, PACU, psychiatric, CPR classes and CNA/GNA training.

For homecare services, they offer care of the elderly, mentally challenged and post-hospital discharges. Additionally there are services for private duty, (4-24 hours/live in and live out) from three days and up, IV therapy, enteral and parental nutrition, wound care, post-up surgical wound care, care for AIDS and debilitated patients at home, and teaching and instruction of equipment.

Davis says she was told that she would write her own destiny. As a former employee of a health care provider, she knew first hand of the ups and downs of the profession. “There was negativity all around me but it was up to me to decide which direction I would allow my life to go,” she says. “My father once told me that there would be no gain without pain, and to not give your foe another script to preach. My faith in God allowed me to persevere and become who I am today.”

More than anything, Davis says One Care Inc. profits her an opportunity to be a vessel of hope to the sick and shut in. By working alongside other

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qualified professionals, they are able to alleviate much of the burdens and concerns that families often deal with. “We are a family and quite often we find ourselves being an extension of family for the individuals we serve,” she says.

Moving forward, Davis says One Care Inc. will continue to serve and promote the services they provide. “We will strive to address the challenges of our clients. We will continue to advocate on better care from all parties involved within the system we operate to ensure that our clients are treated appropriately,” she says.​ h

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The Food Truck

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​ If you live in Greensboro, chances are you have seen the blue, Carolina Finest Food Truck parked with a crowd of individuals around it. Owner and Chef, Lasonya Boulware is the reason for the crowd. Inside she is cooking up some delicious entrees that has generated a following amongst food enthusiasts.

Also acknowledged as, “My Girls Catering,” the Cleveland, Ohio native began cooking at a young age with her mother. “There were five of us and I could remember coming home from school and always having a cooked meal waiting for me,” she says. At the age of 10, they left Ohio and settled in Blair, S.C. She began catering five years ago for churches in South Carolina.

Before opening her food truck, Boulware worked for Fresenius Medical Care for 16 years as a certified dialysis technician. Something deep down on the inside kept telling her that there was something else for her to do with her life. “Being from Cleveland, I have always had an infatuation with food trucks. I could walk out my door and there would be two or three trucks parked on the road,” she says. She decided to further her career in education by obtaining a Culinary Arts degree at Guilford Technical Community College. She received her certificate in June 2015, and opened the food truck the following month. Her last day of employment with Fresenius was in December 2015.

Boulware offers a large variety of entrees and food items. Their specialty is soul food; however because of her vast knowledge of food, their menu includes items from several different cultures. Her most popular item are wicked wings and grilled chicken salad with a drizzle of the wicked wing sauce.

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Operating her food truck, Boulware says it’s a family affair. “My husband Chris and daughters, Madison and Haleigh are always willing to help in the kitchen and on the food truck. They both have said that they want to be in some form of the cooking industry once they grow up.

Madison wants to be a Chef and Haleigh wants to be a Culinary Chemist.

I am so proud of them both and I cannot wait to see how they will grow in the coming years,” she says. h .

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