Theology graduates among
those honored at Union
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THE CHRONICLE
The Youth Department
of Union Baptist honored
all graduates on Sunday,
June 17. Two were theolo
gy school graduates.
Felecia Johanna Piggott
Long and Pamela Peoples
Haith graduated from the
Apex School of Theology
(ASOT).
Piggott-Long received
a Master of Divinity
Degree. Because she
matriculated through her
degree program with a 3.8
grade-point average or bet
ter, she received the
Presidential Recognition
marked by two golden
cords during the gradua
tion ceremony. The
founder and president of
ASOT is The Rev. Dr.
Joseph E. PerkinS. Bishop
Sir Walter Mack Jr., pastor
of Union Baptist, started a
consortium at the church
and has partnered with the
Apex School of Theology
for several years.
“I give God all of the
honor and praise for order
ing my steps. I am grateful
that Bishop Mack has part
nered with Dr. Perkins and
the Apex School of
Theology because hun
dreds of area clergy, lay
leaders, Christian educa
tors, chaplains, teachers,
pastors, Christian coun
selors and nursing/rest
home ministers have been
able to receive formal the
ological training through
face-to-face and online
instruction,” said Piggott
Long. “When I started my
degree, my husband Ben
Long and my mother, Mae
Clarida Piggott, were sick.
Attending the classes and
learning more about God’s
word has been very
encouraging and spiritual
ly uplifting. Although they
are both deceased, I felt
their presence at the cere
mony, along with my fam
ily members.”
Piggott-Long is cur
rently an associate minister
at Union Baptist Church.
She also served as a Youth
minister and director of the
Kemet School of
Knowledge at Emmanuel
Baptist Church for 10
years under the direction of
The Rev. Dr. John Mendez.
Piggott-Long was ordained
into the gospel ministry by
authority and order of the
Rowan Baptist Association
on July 20, 2017 at Shiloh
Missionary Baptist Church
in Greensboro. She is also
a member of the Ministers’
Conference of Winston
Salem and Vicinity.
She currently teaches
at George Washington
Carver High School.
Pamela Peoples Haith
received a Master in
Christian Education
degree.
The daughter of
Charles and Shirley
Peoples, Haith is the
widow of the late Marvin
L. Haith Jr., and they have
an 11-year-old daughter
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added, “I wanted to help and spread
the word about everything we are
doing.”
“I wanted to get involved because
I felt like it was a smart thing she
(Williams) came up with and since
she needed some help I wanted to be
there,” Desiree Terrell added.
To achieve their goal of 1,000
bookbags the young women say they
have been reaching out to family,
Mends and classmates for donations.
They stated it feels great for them to
give back to those who are in need
especially when it comes to some
ones education.
According to Williams the cre
ation of the Dream and Believe Team
has been very beneficial in her efforts
to fund raise, gather donations and
creating new ideas.
“At this year’s back to school jam
we are giving away 1,000 bookbags
this year which is a big goal com
pared to last year but we can do it,”
said Reich “We are also going to
have free food, ice cream and vendors
as well.”
Reich has said that she and her
daughter keep God in mind with
every venture they take on with The
Kyndall Project. They feel through
blessing others they are blessing
themselves.
The Kyndall Project wanted to
thank their sponsors for all of then
assistance in the Back to School Jam.
Food Lion, Walmart, Harris Teeter,
Lowes Food, Volvo, Irie Rhythms
restaurant, Eastern Star of Lexington
and New Jerusalem Missionary
Baptist Church among others have all
contributed to the nonprofits efforts
to contribute 1,000 bookbags to the
community.
The Back to School Jam is sched
uled for Aug.ll from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
at Rupert Bell Park. Anyone wishing
to donate should email Reich at
thekyndallproject@gmail.com or
visit the website at www.the kyndall
project.org.
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Union
Baptist, mentoring his
nephew over the summer
as a means to give him
something to do until his
nephew returned to college
that fall.
“He did such a tremen
dous job with us, we decid
ed to expand it to involve
other young people, not
only in our church but out
side of the church as well,”
said Mack. “Since that
time, it has been a phenom
enal experience with
tremendous growth and
development by the young
people.”
According to Mack, the
program is designed to
give college students an
opportunity to be “shaped
and developed” by the
church for business suc
cess. Mack stated he want
ed to have a program like
this to also make sure the
church stays invested in the
children’s lives even after
they leave for college.
“We take the time to
bring in business profes
sionals, politicians, spiritu
al and community leaders
to talk to them about being
on time, ethics in the work
place and dressing for suc
cess,” he said. “One of the
things we try to teach them
is you have to dress for an
opportunity.”
“Many times dress
trends are shaped by hip
hop artists or professional
athletes, which is fine;
however a lot of our young
people can't show up on
jobs with the LeBron look
with a suit jacket and
shorts,” he continued.
Along with learning in
the classroom, the interns
also have to complete com
munity service projects
during the seven-week pro
gram. Mack feels it gives
the young people a sense of
humility by working in
soup kitchens and clothing
banks, for example.
The main focus for this
year’s program is financial
literacy, Mack said. The
church has partnered with
several organizations that
will come in on a weekly
basis to train the interns on
how to manage money,
prepare for retirement and
how to invest their money.
Each week the group
meets with Mack for
intense training sessions on
things such as leadership
principles, integrity and
being on time, to name a
few. Mack also has the stu
dents work on projects
inside the church based on
their college majors.
“If a student is a sports
management major, we
connect them with the
YCFL football league and
if they have a finance back
ground, we have them help
us devise a system for the
church budget, for exam
ple,” he said. “We like to
use them where they are so
at the end of the program,
they have a project they
would have completed
over the summer.”
Mack said he loves to
see the growth of the
young people at the end of
the program versus when
they first came in.
“I have personally wit
nessed where a student
come in and they know
about the reality they have
to work one day, but they
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Vendors hand out infor
mation to residents at
the North Winston
Neighborhood
Association Community
Block Party on June IS.
Neighborhood association hosts
first community block party
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The North Winston Neighborhood
Association (NWNA) held its first
Community Block Party on Friday, June
15, at Ivy Avenue. The association is a
Northeast neighborhood community that
encompasses neighborhoods and streets
within the borders of North Patterson
Avenue; Indiana Avenue; Liberty Street
and Northwest Boulevard. The North
Winston Neighborhood Association was
established in 1999 at St. James A.MJE.
Church, under President Rodney Sumler.
The block party was a free community
event, in coordination with Neighbors for
Better Neighbors, which provided coni
munity connection information to resi
dents. Neighbors also communed together
with food, fun and conversation.
Through community conversations
with vendors, residents received informa
tion on community gardens, their legal
rights as renters, as voters and as parents
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with students in school. They were also
informed of financial health, and the chil
dren received inspiration through art and
the spoken word.
Vendors in attendance were Vibe
Funktion (exhibition art). Legal Aid,
Financial Pathways, Winston-Salem
Police Department, Neighbors for Better
Neighborhoods, Ambassadors Cathedral
and St. James A.M£. Church. There was
information distribution from Experiment
in Self-Reliance, Community Care,
Winston-Salem Parks and Recreation and
City Housing.
The officers of the North Winston
Neighborhood Association (NWNA) are:
James Maurice Barber Sr., president;
Chenita Johnson, secretary; and Eva
Gray-Allen, treasurer. The association
meets 6 p.m. every fourth Monday of the
month, alternating between Ambassadors
Cathedral on Harriet Tubman Drive and
St. James A.M.E. Church, on North
Patterson Avenue.
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really don't understand that
world, so there is a fear
there,” he continued. “So
what we try to do is give
them information so they
won't have to operate in
that fear and give them
information to prepare
them of what to expect.”
The program is open to
all students from churches
around the city. One stu
dent has come as far as
South Carolina to be
involved with the intern
ship.
“We just want to fill the
gap so we can start produc
ing business people from
the local church,” Mack
said. “Then they can take
those principles into the
marketplace and they
impact the marketplace
with principles from the
church without even saying
it's the church.”
Piggott-Long
Madison. Pamela has been
an employee of Kao
Specialties American LLC
as a chemist technician for
22 years. It was her love
for God’s Word that led her
to want to leam more about
theology. This is the reason
that she became interested
in getting her master's
degree. She is involved
with the Christian
Education Department at
Union Baptist Church.
Haith lost her husband
in 2011 after 13 years of
Haith
matrimony, but she is
thankful that, "Weeping
may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morn
ing” (Psalm 30:5). “This
Scripture carried me
through many nights
because I knew that one
day, joy would come. I did
n't know how long it would
take me, but God said to
me be still and see the sal
vation of the Lord. “
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CLEMMONS ROAD (S.R. 1103) FROM CLEMMONS ROAD
(U.S. 158) TO SOUTH PEACE HAVEN ROAD (S.R. 1891)
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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regard
ing the proposed project to improve Lewisville Clemmons Road (S.R.
1103) from Clemmons Road (U.S. 158) to South Peace Haven Road
(S.R. 1891) in Clemmons. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, July
10th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the River Oaks Community Church located
at 1855 Lewisville Clemmons Road in Clemmons.
The primary purpose of this project is to address safety issues. Another
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