Many influential and successful people attend Trinity.

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  • Many influential and successful people attend Trinity. - JS

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Not bad for a town whose population is 70,000 people.

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Michelle and Barack Obama's association with Trinity Unity church dates back to around 1988 (Obama, age 27) when they were civil right attorneys in Chicago and engaged in voter registration drives in South Chicago.  Being young, biracial and a recent graduate from Harvard Law School with international heritage and early life experiences, he was searching for the meaning of black identity in America.  It seems like a black church would be a reasonable place for a Christian to take that search.  Trinity Unity Church in South Chicago engages in the following ministry programs of common interest to both himself and his wife, who were active in that community at that time.     

1.    Seniors activities.

2.    Adopt-a-student. 

3.    Economic development and health education in Africa.

4.    Sports, career development.

5.    Caribbean cultural education. 

6.    Social justice advocacy. 

7.    Bible study. 

8.    Individual, family, group and grief crisis counseling. 

9.    Children, youth, men and women modern dance, ballet and interpretive dance, including African roots of dance in worship. 

10.   Domestic violence support services. 

11.   Drama.

12.   Drill teams. 

13.   Drug and alcohol recovery. 

14.   Fine arts and literary guild. 

15.   Food share. 

16.   Girl Scouts.

17.   Health advisory for the prevention of physical and mental illnesses. 

18.   High school counseling. 

19.   HIV/AIDs education. 

20.   Housing seminars, including tax sales, avoiding foreclosure, purchase of HUD homes, finance mortgages. 

21.   Christian, cultural and social focus groups on "coming into womanhood."

22.   Information technology, self determination for the physically, mentally and/or emotionally handicapped. 

23.   Legal counseling. 

24.   Marriage counseling. 

25.   Math tutoring. 

26.   Instruction in audio, visual, print, photography and telecommunications. 

27.   Men's groups and fellowship. 

28.   Development of spiritual, economic, social and political viability of the African American community.

29.   Partnership programs across ministries.

30.   Messengers of Faith high school choir.

31.   Little Warriors for Christ choir for ages 6 years to 8^th grade.

32.   Men's Chorus.

33.   Sanctuary choir for adult men and women.

34.   Women's Chorus.

35.    Walaika Choir for 3 to 5 year olds.

36.    Newness of Life guidance for life's spiritual journey.

37.   Prison ministry weekly visits to prisons to provide support for prison families and engage inmates in rap sessions and training programs. 

38.   Christian role models and mentors for boys and girls of elementary school age. 

39.   Reading/literacy program.

40.   Sign language- Bible studies and other programs for the hearing impaired.

41.   Singles groups for never married, divorced, widowed, single parents and same gender.

42.   Women's groups.

43.   New member orientation and financial aid for members enrolled in seminaries.

44.   Tangeni adult dance rehearsals, seminars and retreats.

45.   Taped worship services/visitation for members and extended family, who are hospitalized, shut-ins or in extended care facilities.

46.   Computer classes.

47.   Church usher program, all ages.

48.   Women's guild volunteers for nursing home resident visitation.

49.   Yoga physical, mental and spiritual fitness.

50.   Young adults/teenage groups.

51.   Christian character development of cultural and spiritual awareness.

52.   Youth Christian education, music, prayers and crafts activities groups.

Pretty sad.  At least the consevatives here weather the storms and stay.  That pretty much says a lot about you and them, too.  It's sure not like you guys never took pot shots over there. Of course, I am sure it wasn't YOU. Right.

She just got announced.  I am not saying that there is anything in her background, but it is early and I am sure if there is one iota of a person in her background then we will here about it.  For this whole experience thing, what have we got in the past 8 years and the past 8 before that with all of the so-called experience the Rep. think we need. 

Why are we still bring up Rev. Wright?  Can't we just move past that?  We've heard it all. 

focused on outward appearances?  It is a person's heart that shows true beauty......not their face.  A face can change over time, but a pure heart remains and that is what is important.

is the line Hannity uses to introduce such wild statements without accepting responsibility for stating them.  The post says the GROUP endosed McCain -- did not libel McCain.  Simply an example of how people are willing to run with any statement that supports their beliefs against a candidate.

Slice and dice in the womb - 2.1 million babies murdered.....fanatical ravings indeed

I'm cutting and pasting from an email my friend sent me.  Thought it was interesting enough to post here.  I really hope the spacing is okay.  The title of the email was "how to become a former columnist"

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the  Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
                                       
  545 PEOPLE
  By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget.  The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.

The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, nine Supreme Court justices = 545 human beings out of the 300 million who are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.   In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority.   They have no authority to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.   I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.   The politician has the power to accept or reject it.   No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.   They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.   No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.   The president can only propose a budget.   He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, (supposedly) the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving
appropriations and taxes.   Who is the speaker of the House?   She or he is the leader of the majority party.   She or he and fellow House members, not the
president, can approve any budget they want.   If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and
irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.   When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Marines are in  IRAQ , it's because they want them in  IRAQ .

If they do not receive Social Security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's be cause they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they
can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.   Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses,  provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.