Mother's Day
May 12
High School & College Graduations
Happy Birthday To You!
Anniversaries
"I Married My Best Friend"
A Celebration for Some
End of School - Summer is Here
"I'm Bored - I'm Hungry - Can we go now?"
Who Is Firing Up The Grill?
Who made the potato salad? Is it on ice?
Memorial Day - May 27
Oh My - The Sights & Sounds of Summer! #stayready
James 1:17
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
Persistent Prayer
For Our Friends in Rock Hill, SC
For Everyone Impacted by Severe Weather in Oklahoma and Beyond
For Peace & Peaceful Protest
Prayer is a way for us to remain focused on God and Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. And this helps us to endure hardships and challenges that we face in day-to-day life. Prayer is a constant reminder that Christ is stronger than any difficulty we may face.
The wonderful thing about prayer for a Christian is that it is not a one-way process. Through prayer, we do not just talk to God. The fantastic news is that God also talks to us. In fact, Ecclesiastes 5 teaches us to not start our prayers with talking, but rather approach God to listen first.
#Solitude #Struggle #Stamina
Upcoming Programs
Mother's Day Weekend
May 11 - 12, 2024
The Mother's Day Choir will have rehearsal Sunday, May 5, following service.
Thank You
Queenetta Adams
H.E.R. Women to Women Presenter
First Lady Andrea Fite
The Lay Council
Each week we will provide information about the Lay Council, leading up to our meeting.
laity: the people of a religious faith who are not members of its clergy.
As witnesses of the grace and mercy of God, the Connectional Lay Council of the African American Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, exists to prepare and equip laity for life discipleship in the Kingdom of God. (amez.org)
Week 1: Five Objectives of The Lay Council
Week 2: Deepen the Spiritual Life of the Laity
Week 3: Disseminate Information
Week 4: Cultivate Denominational Loyalty
Steele Hill Connectional Lay Council Leadership Team
Nadine Morrison, Margaret McIlwain, Margretta Morrison, Fred Witherspoon, Verta W. Looper (Past President, Pee Dee Conference Lay Council & F.A.N. (Faith.Activity.Nutrition)
Sunday School: 9:45 AM
Worship: 10:40 AM
May 5 Rev. Eldren Morrison
May 6 - Ms. Ruth Kelly (Age 95+)
May 7 - Janeice Tims
May 8 - Jacqueline Lindsay
May 10 Lewis (L H) Johnson, Sr. (in White Oak Rehab Center Lancaster, SC)
May 10 Mary Zimmerman
May 10 Roberta Cureton
May 11 Walter B. Davis
May 11 Edna Williams
May 11 David Smith
Black History ++
West Saratoga is a Kentucky Derby long shot. But so was his trainer
Larry Demeritte is a rarity at this weekend’s Kentucky Derby. Not for his training style or personality, but simply because of who he is: a Black trainer. And his Derby horse, West Saratoga, might be the best story on Saturday.
Dana O’Neil profiled Demeritte in a wonderful story, which is worth a read. Two things that stood out:
- Demeritte is the first Black trainer with a Derby entrant since 1989 and just the second since 1951. He has earned his place: He immigrated from the Bahamas in 1976, leaving a job as a trainer to become a groom in the United States.
- West Saratoga is a longshot at 50 to 1, but, as O’Neil writes, so is Demeritte. The trainer is 74 years old, has cancer for the second time and is also dealing with heart disease. It hasn’t slowed him.
Now here is Demeritte, a native of the Bahamas, in a profession in which Black trainers are a rarity; who has cancer for the second time while also in the throes of a rare heart disease; with a horse purchased for the price of a well-used Hyundai running in a field that includes a one-time yearling bought for $2.3 million; competing in his first Kentucky Derby 48 years after chasing a dream that took him out of a secure job in the Caribbean to the Churchill Downs barns.
But Demeritte, 74, is more than a man with a good story and a willingness to tell it. He’s a man who understands this is all about so much more than him. “I always say,’’ Demeritte begins, using a favorite segue to deliver a message, “when you look on a tombstone, you see when you are born and when you die and the dash in between. That dash? It all depends on what you do in life in that dash.’’
West Saratoga is 50 to 1. The eternal optimist Demeritte brushes off the oddsmakers’ opinions. As he always tells Veruchi, there is no Plan B. The only plan involves crossing the wire first, and fulfilling Demeritte’s master plan – to inspire. Inspire young people who hold dreams dear even if the path in front of them is bumpy; to inspire young Black men in horse racing by providing a familiar face to emulate; to inspire cancer survivors to ignore prognoses and diagnoses and just live.
Those who love and care for Demeritte, though, would like to tweak the plan. Just this once they’d like it to simply be about Larry Demeritte. “I’m so happy to see he’s made it so far,” Lowery says. “Just being here is his dream come true, but Larry always says, ‘Nobody remembers who finishes second in the Kentucky Derby.’ I want him to have it all. I want him to win the Kentucky Derby.”
The horse is a long shot. But then again, so was Larry Demeritte.
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