2014 youth mag special edition by Jacob's Heritage

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A look at what spiritually minded youth are saying about their history according to the bible

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The Purpose of Youth Expressions: The purpose of the magazine is to enlighten our youth; to discover, create, develop and express the gifts, talents, skills and life experiences of our youth while presenting a parentfriendly youth-oriented magazine in the spirit of God. Moving soon? Please let us know before you go. Email us your old address and your new address to: manworkin@hotmail.com. Subject box: Address Change

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Greetings and Thank you for taking the time to read our youth magazine. We are a faith-base community organization and we like to be brief about our vision for the Grand Crossing Community and Riverdale, IL township. Our focus is youth development and making sure that our youth are guided from adolescent to adulthood. Our presence will insure a better life style for our youth with hope that our teens utilize the life skills thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed for them to be successful individuals. With our efforts, we are inviting you to become a part of our mission and goals as we develop a powerful team of caring adults that has a passion for our youth. It is their Time, our youth, and as we look at the weekend news its majority negative publicity. We believe that we can not stop the negativity but we will balance the publicity that our teens are due to receive. Nevertheless, marching and talking about solutions to violence is not solutions in the making. We want to see organizations engage the communities, and political figures about job creation, which it is documented research That unsupervised time puts youth at risk for such negative outcomes as academic and behavioral problems, drug use, gang activity and other types of risky behavior.

On the positive side, young people benefit when they spend time engaged in structured pursuits that offer opportunities for positive interactions with adults and peers, encourage them to contribute and take initiative, and contain challenging and engaging tasks that help them develop and apply new skills and personal talents. Therefore, what better structured pursuits like job creation to get them off the streets. We can all put our money where our mouth is as a community, and because of sequesters and government uncertainty, it is time to be a community force without gaps or any breaks in our programs because funding ran out.

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Every person on the planet is called after a country on a continent. Where is the country called black on the The month of February has been designated Black History Month. The world tell us that Black History Month is set aside to recognize the contributions that black people have made to this country and to the world. When people talk about the contributors, names come up like Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Boise, Sojourner Truth and a host of others that have been recognized in the month of February. CONSIDER THIS! Every person on the planet is called after a country on a continent. For example, Mexicans are from Mexico. Chinese are from China. Sudanese are from Sudan. Nigerian origin is from the country on the African continent called Niger. Russians for Russia, Germans for Germany, so on and so on.

Q: What does black history mean to you? A: Black history means a lot to me now, because it is a higher form of learning to me. What I mean by higher form of learning is that studying the Bible has informed me that this is a history book about a lot of people, especially black folks.

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When it comes down to black Americans or African Americans, they are referred to as just black folks. Each group of people has their own country. Where is the country called black on the continent of Africa? There are African Americans, but where in Africa did they come from. Africa is a big continent with 47 countries; and counting the African country of islands, the total is 53. Which one is YOUR origin? You can’t just go back to your native land while there are tribal wars and ethic cleansing taking place in Africa. Even black-onblack crime in Africa is on a higher scale of destruction, and is far worse than we would ever imagine it to be in comparison with black communities here.

Furthermore, black folks have this story that has not been told, and is only understood on a spiritual level. Your mothers, your fathers, teachers, and your pastors have not shown you how your ancestors proliferated and were sold throughout the Mediterranean lands of Asia and Africa and were brought here against their will, into a land called America, which was not their own. Let the truth be told to all that have an ear to hear. Your history is no longer a mystery.

What we would like to do is take you on a journey in a six-part series, titled Black History told by the prophets of the Bible. We ask that you follow along with us and consider the whole matter as we bring forth a new way of learning black history. Here are some topics to consider: color, slavery, spiritual death and resurrection, the priest of God, and when we were kings. Class Times are 10am & 1:30pm (SHARP) Every Saturday in February and extends in March. Were online too! 4

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Workforce Ministries coming soon

Workforce Ministries purpose is to get our youth working and to establish trust in God. One man once stood up at in a room of about thousand males who signed up to be mentors, and said, how can we get our youth back in the church? I was in attendance but didn't have a answer but the idea has been festering inside me for a long time. To make this happen we have to give our youth incentives, like rewards for their works. Since jobs are scarce among our teens why not create jobs for the unemployed youth.

To pull this off all hands must be on board to invest in our youth. The concept is establishing training a workforce of chefs in culinary arts, sanitation workers, food preps, cashiers, inventory specialist, caterers, customer service personnel all in the restaurant industry. Our vision is to continue to establish restaurant locations as we anticipate outstanding growth in the restaurant industry.

According to the restaurant association of America, it is the #1 private sector in America and Le Cordon Bleu culinary arts school has forecast 1.3 million industry jobs will be created in the next ten years. How Workforce Ministries will work

Must be a participant of Dedicated Mentoring Program Download a questionnaire about the bible (questionnaire comes with an application for work) Attend a Question & Answer location to complete your questionnaire Attend a Saturday service to fellowship about your questionnaire Attend a scheduled lesson on the subject matter (will be posted on page as WFM followed by title Scan, fax, email a copy to us with a head shot of you and turn in your originals at lesson location 1 point is equaled to 1 working hour and schedules are given within 30 days of submissions

Participants have their choice on how they will complete their questionnaire. Becoming a part of steps 3, 4 and 5 are the three ways to really get ahead of learning and completing your questionnaire in time to be a consistent worker. Your participation will also open the door for other workforce initiatives we have on the drawing board, so become a donor of this great concept and allow us to create a workforce of youth who trust in God. We need your input on our concept in the making. Email us at manworkin@hotmail.com and input all caps, WORKFORCE MINISTRIES in the subject box.

Q: What type of representation would you give black history month if you were a public speaker?

A: I would represent black history straight out the Bible and let the world know what the prophets of the Bible had to say about black history. And I would make people ask questions because I would inform them of things in the Bible like “My skin is black upon me” in Job 30 or “I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem” in the book of the Song of Solomon. Even I had to ask myself what is this black thing going on in the Bible.

Your mothers, your fathers, teachers, and your pastors have not shown you how your ancestors proliferated and were sold throughout the Mediterranean lands of Asia and Africa Q: How can young people and were benefit from learning about brought black history? here A: Well, I don’t know. I against don’t think young folks want to benefit from black history. their will, It sounds like it would be a into a land boring topic for most teens. Look at it like this: it’s not going to called get them the next high-tech iPod or the latest shoes, or an outfit. But the benefit for America, me from black which was history is not their KNOWLEDGE, and that’s an own. intangible asset that no one can take from me.

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Why should we practice youth leadership?

youth prepare to become adults, their roles change: Instead of BOUT S always being taken care of, they increasingly take care of YOUTH DEVELOPMENT  To produce violence reduction strategies and themselves. While not all youth will assume traditional leadership prevent a repeated relapse into criminal or roles as they grow older delinquent behavior in at risk youth through (e.g. positions of authority, the five aspects of positive youth political titles, etc.), they will all development: learning, connecting, become the leaders of their own thriving, working, and leading. lives, a job that demands “To be successful leadership ability.  To create and mentor a Youth as adults, all To be successful as adults, all Leadership youth will be youth will be required to Counsel for demonstrate self-sufficiency required to selected and initiative, which includes underprivileged making the right decisions that demonstrate communities lead to success.

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To recruit and train available parents as mentors

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To mentor teens from adolescent to adulthood

self-sufficiency and initiative, which includes making the right decisions that lead to success. ”

Our purpose is to teach youth through individual empowerment toward self-improvement in personal, social, academic, vocational and economic skills which would nurture a positive growth in spirituality, responsibility, education, work relations, and family structure.

Furthermore, youth leadership opportunities can give youth the skills that employers most want for their emergent workforce: self motivation, time management, oral and written communication, team work, influencing people, salesmanship, leadership, solving problems, physical skills related to health, and gathering, evaluating, and/or analyzing information. Regardless of the future aspirations of youth, leadership opportunities can help all youth develop the skills they will need in the workforce and for a lifetime of making good decisions.

Source: Engaging Youth: A How-To Guide for Creating Opportunities for Young People to Participate, Lead and Succeed

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Q: Is there anything else in the Bible that might have black written all over it? A: Well, Genesis 9 and 10 will tell us that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Japheth were Caucasians, Ham were Africans, like Egypt for instance, and Shem, the Semitic people. Then out of Shem came Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, then came the 12 tribes of Israel. One of Israel’s sons was named Levi and Moses was born out of that tribe, and he was a Hebrew, that looked like an Egyptian. Not only that, Judah was a son of Israel. Jew is short for Judah. Jesus was a Jew in the flesh. Jesus came out of the tribe of Judah, and the blue-eyed European-looking image of Jesus that hangs on any wall is not realistic. The young brother ran down the lineage of Noah with emphasis on Shem leading down to Jesus. Q: Does that make Paul out of the same lineage of Israel, that Jesus came out of? A: Yes sir, that makes Paul an Israelite because he said in Romans Chapter 11 verse 1: “Have God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Paul also said in Romans Chapter 9, Christ was his brother his kinsman according to the flesh. So, Jesus is an Israelite.

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One of the THOUGHT members spoke about “My skin is black upon me” and “I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem”. Q: What are some other things that were told by the prophets of the Bible that you are familiar with? A: I’m familiar with Matthew second Chapter- when the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and told him to take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and “be thou there until I bring you word,” because Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. Q: Are you knowledgeable about anything else that the prophets spoke about in the Bible?

A: Well, I can remember what was told about Moses. A man from the house of Levi took a daughter of Levi and had a son, and they hid the child. When the mother couldn’t hide the child anymore she put him in a small ark and he floated down the river. The daughter of Pharaoh found the baby in the river and said “This is one of the Hebrews' children.” Now Pharaohs daughter claimed Moses as her son and Moses had to grow up in their house.

At that time Egypt, meaning black, was a nation of Ham seeds, before the Islamic rule of the Arab Empire. You can hide a black baby around some black folks, but you can’t do that now. Jesus would stick out like a sore thumb.

Now pay attention to this- Pharaoh told the midwives to throw all the new-born boys in the river. When the midwives objected to killing these Hebrew children, he even ordered Q: Paint me a mental picture of his citizens to Genesis 50: 1-11 and kill the new born explain your understanding males. about those particular NOW for Moses, passages the Hebrew, to grow up around A: My understanding is that when Pharaoh an Jacob died or Israel died, Joseph’s father, Joseph packed Egyptian, you could not tell the up his house and his father’s house, the servants of Pharaoh, and the elders of his house and the little ones. difference because All of them left the land of Goshen to go back to the land Hebrews and of Canaan to bury Jacob. But when the Canaanites saw Egyptians are Israel approaching them, the Canaanites said, “This is a black. grievous mourning to the Egyptians”.

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