EDUCATION MONTH
Vol 18, No. 10 • March 2019
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This well-rounded college freshman Emma Baxter keeps running to busy serving the Lord encourage young students to get fit stays By Lucy Weber New Birth Community
measure their steps and play games By Lucy Weber that emphasize the day's lesson. Runner Emma Baxter is helping eleBaxter said she teaches about the mentary students in Corinth and importance of warming before Alcorn County schools get fit exercising and how to get heart Baxter, 27, who has been a runner rates up, making running fun, since she joined the Kossuth cross learning how to set a consistent country team in seventh grade, is face and eating healthy fit. working with fourth- and fifth "I've gotten good feedback graders to teach them about the benfrom the teachers who say efits of a healthy lifestyle and regthe students have said ular exercise in the Coke 10K they are learning," Kids Get Fit Initiative. The Baxter said. "I'm a four-week program that high energy person takes Baxter to schools so it's easy for me Mondays through to keep the stuThursdays is a dents engaged." way to encourage Baxter started students to parher running career ticipate in the by going with a May 4 Coke 10K friend to join the in Corinth. cross-country team "They use this as a in middle school. build-up for the Coke But that first day, "I 10K. I don't know how was really bad at it," she many of these kids will parsaid. "The assistant coach ticipate, but I'm excited to see told my mom I wasn't any how many will come," said good but they could make Baxter, who was a co-winner me better." of the Coke Gold Standard Baxter's mom, who she Bearer Award in 2018. describes as "cut and dried" Each Kids Get Fit weekly asked: "Honey, you're not class focuses on a specific topic good, do you want to do this?" as the students run, walk and jog When Baxter told her mom to get in shape. The students Emma Baxter that she was committed so they wear pedometers in the class to went to get the proper running Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835 shoes the next day. That was what she needed. Baxter finished the season as one of the top two runners POSTAL PATRON on the cross-country team that year and the first middlesee BAXTER pg 4
Jonathan Tucker II may be busier than the typical college freshman, but there's nothing typical about this New Albany resident. There was a reason friends called him a Renaissance Man in high school. A Biblical Studies major at Blue Mountain College, the 18-year-old is celebrating his first anniversary this month as an associate minister at
Church where his father is minister. He is committed to using his multiple talents in youth ministry. He runs the media ministry at his church. He preaches when called upon, and already has plans to preach at a Children's Day in June and a gathering of youths in August. He will say yes to a challenge as long as it won't cause him harm or get him wet. He draws, acts, plays the baritone and sings a little. He has a growing Jonathan Tucker II
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Men with addictions find help at Broken Lives Rescue Ministry in Nettleton was charged with DUI and other crimes By Lucy Weber and facing 40 years to life in prison. "I For five years, Broken Lives hit on my knees in that jail cell and gave Rescue Ministry has been helping my life to Jesus Christ." men addicted to drugs and alcohol Sober since Dec. 23, 2010, Scribner find their way through Jesus committed to finding a way to help othChrist. ers. "The Lord laid on my heart to The rehab facility, housed in a open a faith-based ministry." former National Guard facility at With the five-year anniversary 7314 Will Robbins Highway in in April, Broken Lives has Nettleton, runs on the belief that seen over 1,600 men go addicts can be restored to through the program. "We abundant life through Christ. have a good success rate Founder Shane Scribner with the men who stick wants the men who take with the program," he classes, study the Bible and said. find work while at the facilSince its inception, ity to share the joy he found the non-profit has in Christ when he was at grown from a 2,000rock bottom. Shane Scribner square foot facility to "I was hooked on drugs the current location with 16,000 square and alcohol for 20-something years and in and out of jail," he said, when in 2010 he see MINISTRY pg 4