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The SHIFT Conference presents The Walls Group LIVE with special guest Nate Jackson!

July 12, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Calling all families, youth, parents, grandparents, & young adults! Are you ready to laugh, worship, sing & dance?

For the very first time Multi-Grammy nominated artists The Walls Group will perform live in the Pacific Northwest. Nate Jackson—nationally accomplished comedian will bring comedy—creating an evening of entertainment you will not want to miss!! All are welcome to the SHIFT Conference community night.

The NEW SHIFT CONFERENCE July 20-22

Get ready for a YOUNG ADULT conference unlike any other in the Pacific Northwest! SHIFT has one main goal: to EMPOWER young adults to become high impact leaders in the church, community & family life. Our workshops and activities address the needs of the TOTAL person…Mind-Body-Spirit.

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The SHIFT Conference features:

  • Nationally recognized preachers, scholars, community organizers & clinicians
  • A fresh menu of workshops that will transform participants personally, professionally, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and economically.
  • Food & Childcare!!
  • Social and Networking events
  • Dynamic Worship
  • Entertainment by The Walls Group & Nate Jackson
  • SO MUCH MORE!

A NEW SHIFT is coming….you don’t want to miss it.

Visit  www.theshiftconference.org for all details related to SHIFT weekend!

Grab your tickets for the concert of the summer!

Visit www.theshiftconference.org for more information and to purchase tickets!

Filed Under: African American, Announcements, Community, Community News, Entertainment, Events, Events, Faith, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest, People

The Holy Land Tour with Pastor Chris: A Major Success for the Christ Embassy Church

June 13, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome,

Christ Embassy’s Man of God, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has concluded the 2018 Holy Land Tour. The church planned out the trip meticulously for the benefit of believers of Jesus across the world.

Hundreds of the Pastor’s followers joined him on this spiritual visit to Israel and Jordan. Each day on the itinerary was filled with sites seeing of holy places, considered important to both Christians and Jews. The tour followed the journey Christ took in the Bible and scripture, allowing participants to walk in His footsteps and learn from His glory.

LoveWorld incorporations were overwhelmed by the warm welcoming they got from the Jewish Land. Jews and Christians alike were delighted for the visit of Pastor Chris, highlighting the close connection Evangelicals have to the Holy Land and its people.

The visit coincided with two monumental events for the state of Israel. The first is the marking of the 70th year of Independence for the Jewish Land. The second event was the move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

Earlier this year the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, announced his intentions of moving the Embassy. The move aimed to signal to the international community that the US stands behind and recognizes the Holy City, Jerusalem, as the capital of the Jewish Land, Israel.  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a celebratory reception in honor of the move. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was personally invited to the event. The Pastor received warm welcome and was embraced by members of government as well as a variety of Jewish individuals. The hosts were eager to welcome the world-renowned Evangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his entourage managed to visit numerous sites during the eight-day visit Some included Caesarea, the Sea of Galilee, Abu Gosh, Mount Hertzel, and the Tomb of Lazareth. Additionally, one group was provided with the opportunity to visit holy sites in Jordan, witnessing the diversity of the Holy Land. Participants and local observers were also able to see Pastor Chris Oyakhilome minister many times throughout the trip. They testified that ministrations were “filled with gospel and glory, bringing all those involved closer to the Lord.”

 

The trip offered a lot of opportunities to the attendees and was designed to create a memorable experience. Selected moments from the 2018 Holy Land Tour are available at https://bit.ly/2I6BcRX and more information can be obtained from the blog: https://bit.ly/2rbI7UJ

KingsChat application offers selected photos from the trip as well.

 

 

About Christ Embassy:

Christ Embassy is a community that comprises of worldwide network of churches that combine a vast and diverse congregation from all walks of life. The vision of Christ Embassy is to bring the Divine Presence to each person and nation of the world. The founder of the embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and the other members of the embassy have a strong desire and passion to achieve the goal of bringing people together, under the common knowledge of the Divine character made possible in Jesus Christ.

 

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Rethinking Incarceration

April 28, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

FIRST COVENANT CHURCH is hosting a book event featuring Dominique Gilliard, author of Rethinking Incarceration. Gilliard’s book provides a timely, faith leader’s perspective on more just alternatives to mass incarceration as Seattleites organize against the new youth jail being built and imagine together a society where all thrive and are free.

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores. He also serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.”

An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. He earned two bachelor’s degrees—in African American Studies and History—from Georgia State University and a master’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University, with an emphasis on race, gender, and class in the United States. He also earned an MDiv from North Park Seminary, where he served as an adjunct professor teaching Christian ethics, theology, and reconciliation.”

For more information, please visit http://www.firstcovenantseattle.org/rethinking-incarceration/

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12 Step Programs Free Me From Addiction

March 24, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment


Like all human beings, I’ve experienced my share of pain, and suffered considerably. I was born into a violent, alcoholic home. When the clock struck six, and my father wasn’t home yet, I knew there was going to be hell to pay that night. My earliest childhood memories at the age of four are of my father coming home drunk, creating mind bending chaos by throwing plates, swearing in the most vulgar manner, slurring, being super aggressive, beating my mother from time to time, and threatening to kill her with the shotgun that was in the apartment. I remember being terrified of losing my mother, and terrified of being killed. My strategy of protecting myself as best as I could was to hold my breath, so my father wouldn’t hear me in my bed, and therefore, wouldn’t realize I was there. I felt like a coward in realizing that I could not help my mother. I felt so bad about not being able to help her. I suffered physical, emotional, and psychological abuse from my father. I was traumatized as a child. Four years ago, I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Today, I’m fifty-five years old.
At a young age, I had low self-esteem. I learned to be ashamed of myself. I never felt good enough for myself, or anyone else. I had serious behavioral problems in school. I caused chaos in classrooms for my teachers and classmates.
At the age of eleven, we moved, and I was not able to adapt properly. I always felt different from others, wasn’t able to fit in, felt unwanted, and suffered a tremendous sense of loneliness. In order to try and comfort myself, I started using food as a substance, primarily junk food, and food that was sugar laden, like chocolate and ice cream. I also used other foods like potato chips and candy. I started drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes at the age of 12, and this gave me a feeling like I could let go, and try to fit in, so I became really good at consuming alcohol, and was well on my way to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for the next twenty eight years. At the age of thirteen, I started smoking marijuana on a daily basis. I experimented with cocaine, L.S.D., and hashish later in my teenage years. Thankfully, I was afraid of needles. At the age of fifteen, I became sexually promiscuous. At the insistence of my first love, I stopped smoking marijuana at the age of seventeen, but started drinking alcohol on a daily basis. All of this substance abuse masked the pain I had suffered as a child, and was suffering as a teenager, and only made things worse.
As a result of being in so much pain, I tried to commit suicide at the age of seventeen by overdosing on a bottle of painkillers. At the age of nineteen, I slammed my car into a steel barrier at approximately one hundred miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour). I was serious about wanting to stop the pain, and kill myself. Thankfully, my Higher Power had other plans for me.
After a considerable amount of work, I’m able to forgive my parents today. I’m able to have compassion for both of them, have understanding of where it is they come from, and love them as they are. I’m also able to forgive myself for the numerous mistakes I’ve made in my life, and have done my level best to make amends to the people I’ve harmed. A big part of the reason why I’m able to do this is as a result of working the 12 Steps in various recovery programs.

Although I would have been suited to attend Al-Anon or Al-Ateen; which is a 12 Step program for people who are affected by being associated in any way with a practicing alcoholic, Narcotics Anonymous; which is a 12 Step program for people with addiction to drugs, or Nicotine Anonymous; which is a program for people addicted to nicotine, the 12 Step programs I’m a part of are Alcoholics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Some other 12 Step programs that exist are Gamblers Anonymous; Love and Sex Addicts Anonymous; Online Gamers Anonymous; and Debtors Anonymous, to name a few. If a person is addicted to something, chances are, there will be a 12 Step program available to help a person be free of the addiction. I also attended a rehabilitation center for alcoholics five times between the age of nineteen and twenty-four.
As a result of the 12 Step programs I’m a part of, and receiving treatment at a rehabilitation center, I have received the gift of thirty years of sobriety, received fourteen years of being cigarette free, am in my fifth year of abstinence from using food as a substance, and have been receiving the gift of maintaining a one hundred and thirty six pound weight release for more than two and half years now, one day at a time. I simply cannot take credit for any of this. I attribute all of these modern miracles I experience on a daily basis to the Grace of God. Of course, it’s necessary for me to do the footwork like go to 12 Step meetings, work the 12 Steps on a daily basis to the best of my ability, read the literature, pray, meditate, and help others who are continuing to suffer from addiction.
I’m not a religious person. I’m okay with, and respect those that are, but I do my utmost to be a spiritual person. 12 Step programs are spiritual in nature. We are free to choose our Higher Power as we are moved to do so, and this is one of the most freeing experiences I’ve received in 12 Step programs. When I came to my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the age of nineteen, I was a proud atheist. The members told me that was okay. I was afraid to be there, but I’m so grateful I went. I remember attending my first meeting. I was full of fear, but after listening to the speaker, I felt truly understood for the first time in my life. For the first time in my life, I felt like I wasn’t alone in trying to deal with my inner demons. I knew that I belonged with these other people who were quite similar to me in that we shared the same addiction. In time, I came to experience that we would share in the same solution.
As an adult in recovery over the years, I’ve experienced my share of ups and downs. Some of the highlights have been being in an ongoing process of recovery from substance abuse, experiencing the birth and growth of my daughters, establishing fulfilling relationships, experiencing travel and adventure, learning to live a minimalist lifestyle, and helping others. Some of the low lights have been the loss of my son, and a failed marriage. Such is life. I’m continuing to learn how to live life on life’s terms, without abusing substance.
Today, I have a wonderful relationship with my Higher Power, whom I choose to call God. I’m completely free of all substances. I’m happy and joyous beyond words, experience a great deal of peace, am in the best physical health of my life, and the vast majority of days, I feel free of any craving, or compulsion of substance, and am becoming free from the bondage of self, one day at a time, one moment at a time.
One day, I looked around the room at a 12 Step meeting, and saw a couple of members named Joy and Grace. I thought about it, and realized my name is Freedom. I’m able to feel all of my feelings without wanting to numb them. These are the best days of my life on a consistent basis. I’ve been given an amazing life! After a process of thorough and fearless soul searching, I know who I am today. I can love, and accept myself as I am. I can allow myself to be loved today. I can love others.
I started reaching out for help at the age of nineteen, and continue to do so. I cannot do this alone. Over the years, my Higher Power has brought so many wonderful people into my life to help me, and this has made all of the difference in my life, and in my being! By the Grace of God, I’m able to do this for others today. This writing is an extension of the love and compassion I have for people who are suffering with ongoing addiction. Diseases of addiction are deadly! Addiction and mental health issues are the plagues of these modern times. Being in the abyss, wanting to take one’s life, is common among people who suffer with addiction. I’m hopeful sharing part of my life experience through this writing will give people hope and courage. I’m hoping this article will save lives. I’m not interested in profit or fame. It’s important to note there are millions of recovering addicts all over the world. I am but one of them. I do not represent 12 Step programs. Also, another wonderful, powerful, spiritual principle in 12 Step programs is anonymity. We can rest assured that our anonymity is protected in 12 Step programs. I am hopeful this writing will help people to receive recovery from these insidious, deadly diseases of addiction through 12 Step programs, and live lives of health, happiness, peace, and freedom on a consistent basis.
Love and Peace,
Paul Emile

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Good Friday Services (7) Last Words of Jesus

March 24, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Good Friday Services, March 30, 2018
Hear the seven (7) Last Words of Jesus
Spoken by local Pastors

12:00 noon – 3:00 pm – First AME Church
1522 14th Avenue, Seattle 98122

7:00pm @ Church by the Side of the Road
3455 South 148th Street, Tukwila 98168

www.fameseattle.org

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Join NBCF in Honoring Deacon Clarence Williams

March 23, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Clarence Williams, NBCF Assistant Chief of Operations

Clarence Williams is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, where he attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  He has resided in Seattle, Washington, for 41 years.  He is retired from the Seattle Fire Department where he served for 30 years.  Clarence also served as Assistant Manager and Manager of Southwest Mortuary for three years.

At New Beginnings Christian Fellowship (NBCF), Clarence Presently serves as a Deacon, Deputy Chief of the Security, and Director of the Discipleship Ministry.  He has been a Sunday School and Bible Study teacher for about 20 years and has served the church in several different ministry areas, to include, the Men’s Ministry, the Men’s Choir, Christian Education, the Chair of the Trustee Board and Vice Chair of the Finance Boards.

Outside of his main profession, he has served as a lobbyist at the city, state, and national levels; as a Consultant for Pryor, McClendon, Counts and Company, an investment banking Co., directory of  field operations for the Seattle office of Barden Cablevision, and has owned his own business Unfogettables Cards and Gifts.

Clarence has served as  President of the International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters;  President and Treasurer of the Central Area Motivation Program (C.A.M.P.); Member of the  Northwest Conference of  Black Public Officials; Southern University Alumni Club of Seattle;   member of the Washington State Martin Luther King Holiday Commission; Executive Committee for UNCF; Seattle Urban League; Seattle Chamber of Commerce Leadership Tomorrow Program; and the National Black Leadership Roundtable.

Clarence has been blessed to receive several notable awards.  Made an honorary fire fighter of the Shreveport, Louisiana Fire Department; Most Outstanding Fire Fighter in Washington State;  Fire Fighter of the year in 1994.  Twice honored as Most Outstanding Young Man of America;  received the United Nations Association of the USA award for furthering the cause of human rights; the Seattle Urban League Affirmative Action Award; the Community Service Award by the Black Law Enforcement Officers Association of Washington State; elected as Who’s Who Among Black Americans;  Who’s Who in America 1997; Strathmore’s Who’s Who in America 1998; and the International man of the year by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.

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You’re Worth It! Celebrate Easter @ NEW BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

March 13, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

New Beginnings Christian Fellowship 
celebrate Easter with the residents of our local community.

We hope to see you there!

NEW BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
19300 108TH Avenue SE, Kent Washington 98031

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Chaney Sims w/Dean Reichert: A Benefit Blues Vespers for TCH

March 13, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Grammy nominee Chaney Sims together with Dean Reichert will be at a special Blues Vespers, a benefit for Tacoma Community House. For over 100 years TCH has served the needs of immigrants to our community. No tickets required a donation will be received. Reception to follow. Hosted by Immanuel Presbyterian Church Tacomaand Tacoma Community House

Sunday, March 18 at 5 PM 

Immanuel Presbyterian Church Tacoma

901 N J St, Tacoma, Washington 98403

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Washington State Chapter of Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, Inc Founders Day Celebration

February 13, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Honoring The Past, Present and Future Washington State Funeral Service Professionals of African Heritage.
Funeral Homes, Funeral Directors, Embalmers and Interns

February 24, 2018 7:00pm 
Oasis of Hope Center 
1937 S. G St.  Tacoma, WA

Celebrating House of Scott’s 50 Year of Service to Tacoma


Larry Ray Scott, better known as L’Ray Scott, was born in Boulder Colorado on July 15, 1939, to his proud parents Fredonia and Lonnie Scott. The Scott family moved to Denver when Mr. Scott was a baby. He attended public school in Denver.

Mr. Scott fell in love with playing the trombone while in middle school, and music played a significant role throughout his life. Mr. Scott graduated from San Francisco College of Mortuary Science in 1963, and went on to the University of Puget Sound to pursue his bachelor’s degree. Mr. Scott opened House of Scott Funeral and Cremation Service in October of 1967.

L’Ray Scott married Kitty Dorman in 1976 and later that year the couple had their first child together. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had five children: Corey Scott, Coretta Scott, Corwin Scott, Cortny Scott, and Corenna Khieu. He was a devoted father, husband, and grandfather. Family meant the world to him.

Mr. Scott was a member of the Tacoma Urban League and a member of the NAACP chapter of Tacoma. He founded the Mount Rainier Benevolent Society. He created the Culture Club to help disenfranchised inner city youth. Mr. Scott expose them to the fine arts, proper etiquette such as table manners and respectful behavior in society along with classical music. Mr. Scott was an avid reader and writer. He wrote short stories and poems. His work was also published in many newspapers and magazines. Mr. Scott was a social activist who believed in social economic justice for all people. He campaigned for the empowerment of others, and fought vehemently for justice on behalf of his community.


His influence can still be felt today in the lives of many. Mr. Scott passed away on May 14th, 2001 at the age of 61, leaving behind a rich legacy of compassion, justice, and hope for all.

Join Us In Celebrating House of Scott’s 50 Year of Service to Tacoma

 

 

 

About Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, Inc.

A non-profit social organization for members of the mortuary profession. It’s organization in June 1942, sparked from the spirit of fellowship and camaraderie among students who met as a study club at Worsham College of Mortuary Science, Chicago, Illinois, in an effort to help each other in their common endeavor to study the art of their chosen profession.

The Founder, Thomas Whibby and his wife, Frieda C. Whibby, were among the original study group who foresaw the need for continuing the relationships thus established Epsilon Nu Delta to accomplish a goal with a broader scope embracing the whole profession.

Since the formal organization of Alpha Chapter on October 1, 1944, the fraternity has spread throughout the United States, it’s territories, and Africa. Alpha Chapter was formally incorporated in State of Illinois in 1945.

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What gives us strength?2018 Black History Month Gathering

February 9, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

2018 Black History Month Gathering
Resilience in the Black Community: What gives us strength?

Please join us for a community gathering featuring presentations by:
Michele Andrasik | Carmen Best | Rachel Issaka | Mattie Taplin
Christopher Moore | Quintard Taylor | George Dicks | Linda Chastine
Louis Shackelford

Saturday, February 24, 2018
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Mount Zion Baptist Church
1634 19th Avenue, Seattle WA

Call 206.667.6360 for more info

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