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Friday, April 25, 2025
Steele Hill A.M.E. Zion Church
Rev. Dr. Jerret C. Fite
Pastor
Friday, April 18, 2025
"We hope you experienced the joy and blessings of Easter! As we bid farewell to April and welcome the sunshine of May—a month that celebrates mothers and graduates—let us continue to move forward with hearts full of hope and a spirit of excellence. Together, may we embrace today with faith and strive for even greater achievements ahead!"
Note: Easter pictures will be in next week's e-news.
Adult Sunday School Lesson
April 27, 2025 - 9:45 AM
Adult Unit II: Christ's All-Sufficient Sacrifice
Adult General Lesson Title: The Lamb is Worthy
Adult Topic: Sing A New Song
Devotional Reading: Psalm 118: 15 - 29
Background Scripture: Revelation 5
Home Daily Bible Reading
Friday, April 25 - Psalm 99 - Celebrate God
Saturday, April 26 - Revelation 21: 9 - 16, 21 - 27 Love is the Light
Sunday, April 27 - Revelation 5: 1 - 10 - The Slaughtered, Conquering Lamb
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Mother's Day on The Hill
Join The ladies in White Mother's Day Choir!
"It's that time of year again for our Mother's Day choir. We would love to have some of the ladies in the congregation to join the ladies of the Mass choir in singing praises unto the Lord. I would like to have a brief meeting immediately after service on Sunday with all of the ladies who plan to sing with the Mother's Day choir. Our rehearsal will be the first Sunday in May, which is May 4th; after service, in preparation to sing on Mother's Day. Please contact me with any questions.
Thank you
Queenetta Adams
(803)762-8241
"On The Move"
From Pennies to Super Powers!
Nolad is asking for your support by depositing your coins and paper in the Spiderman Collection Jar located on the financial giving table in the vestibule. We will be sharing more information about the Penny Brigade in the coming weeks.
Women's History Month +
She holds the women’s record for fastest mile. Now she’s attempting the impossible. How do you make the impossible possible?
The legendary runner Faith Kipyegon is aiming to do something that sports scientists once considered impossible. We went inside her Kenyan training camp to understand how she’s pushing the limits of human performance.
Eldoret, Kenya — “Watch her,” says the man with the stopwatch, nodding toward the far end of the sun-cracked track. It’s a Saturday morning in March at the dilapidated stadium in the city of Eldoret, high above the Great Rift Valley in western Kenya. I follow the man’s gaze to where the greatest middle-distance runner of all time rounds the last turn, training for the impossible.
It’s hard to gauge the speed of 31-year-old Faith Kipyegon. She is too smooth. Though she runs nearly at a sprint, her arms and legs slide forward and back with a liquid ease. Her face shows so little strain she might be a jogger out for a brisk trot around Central Park. Only her eyes betray her effort. They seem not to notice the spalling concrete of the never finished stadium, the weeds that grow in its grandstands, the chunk of missing track the size of a manhole cover in lane 4. Her gaze is turned downward, her thoughts focused on only what matters, which is to run faster.
Kipyegon is only 50 yards away from us now, the distance collapsing rapidly. Her longtime pacer, Bernard Soi, moves from his position in front of her. She presses the accelerator to unleash her ruthless kick, the final burst of speed that has carried her to an unprecedented three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 1,500 meters and four world championships.
Today, though, Kipyegon isn’t training for titles. She’s working toward something closer to sporting immortality. In late June, she’ll try to do what no woman has done before:
run a mile in less than four minutes.
For Kipyegon, the motivations are many: she wants to break a barrier, of course. But she also wants to “cement her legacy,” she says, by creating a moment that transcends sport. She’s the mother of a six-year-old girl, and doing what others doubt can be done, she says, will “motivate young girls and young women around the world to push themselves in everything they do.”
Kipchoge is confident that Kipyegon has the physical ability to break four minutes; she trains seven days a week and is a famously hard worker who never complains. He’s also sure of her inner toughness. Still, he knows from experience how doubt creeps into the head of even the best runner in the world when the body is pushed to its limit. Focus wanders. Confidence ebbs. “What will happen in the third lap?” he muses. “In the last 300 meters?” For Kipyegon to succeed her mind can’t flag for a moment.
How do you teach mental strength, though? “Faith to me is somebody who is so strong mentally that there’s not much I can work on,” says Patrick Sang, Kipyegon’s coach. “The only thing is to stand by her side as a coach. And when she turns around, she sees that there is a shoulder to lean on.”
For her part, Kipyegon says her success in the last few years has given her a confidence that she didn’t always possess. “Since I break the world record in the 1,500 meters and the mile … everything is possible,” she says. “You know, impossible can be possible.”
Kipyegon grew up in a small village about 140 miles west of Nairobi, the eighth of nine children in a family of athletes. She is from the Kalenjin tribe, famed for producing runners. As a girl she and her siblings ran two and a half miles to school, home for lunch, and back again—10 miles a day—through eighth grade.
She first began to realize her gift for running when she was 14. Her PE teacher organized a brief footrace at school, and Kipyegon outran all her classmates. Just three years later, at 17, she’d won the junior race at the 2011 World Athletics Cross Country Championships—while running barefoot, the style she’d grown up with.
Kipchoge sees no distinction between training to become a great runner and training to become a good human being, and everywhere around camp he has posted motivational signs. One reads: “Talent is not enough. You need Discipline. You need Dedication. You need Character.”
When Kipchoge thinks of all the reverberations a record run by Kipyegon could have, he smiles. Yes, his friend’s success will change women’s running, he says. More than that, though, the feat will tell women everywhere that they can tackle whatever they want. “I’m trusting that it will change the world.”
MUSC Receives Approval to Build New Hospital in Indian Land
INDIAN LAND, S.C. — The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has received approval to move forward with construction of a new hospital in Indian Land, marking a significant expansion of healthcare services in Lancaster County.
ndian Land, located just south of the North Carolina border, has experienced rapid residential and commercial growth over the past decade. Local leaders and residents have long expressed the need for more accessible healthcare infrastructure.
MUSC is a state-owned hospital system and one of South Carolina’s largest healthcare providers. The new hospital is expected to bring more than 500 jobs to the area, according to preliminary estimates.
Construction timelines have not yet been finalized.
Article provided by https://yoconews.com/
It would be great to get as much help as we can get. Food and materials will be provided. If your church can assist with this community day of cleanup, please let me know.
Thank you,
Loyd Fox
Town Council
Town of Van Wyck, SC
803.280.5836
loyd.fox@townofvanwyck.com
A Prayer for our Grieving Families and Friends
Dear Heavenly Father, We come before You, seeking Your comforting embrace during this time. Lord, You know the depths of grief that weigh heavy on our hearts. We ask that You hold these families close, granting them peace that surpasses understanding. Surround them with Your love and bring gentle reminders of hope and healing to their days.
Be their source of strength when they feel weak, their refuge when the pain feels overwhelming, and their guide as they navigate life without their loved one. Send people into their lives who will uplift and support them with kindness, patience, and love.
May Your presence be a steady light in their darkness, and may Your promises remind them of eternal life and reunion in Your kingdom. We trust in Your goodness, Lord, and ask for Your tender care over each grieving heart.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
A Prayer for Healing and Recovery
"Gracious and loving God, we come before You today, lifting up all who are struggling with physical illness. We ask that You wrap them in Your healing embrace, bringing comfort to their pain, strength to their bodies, and peace to their minds. Grant wisdom to the doctors, nurses, and caregivers who support them, and surround them with love and encouragement. Lord, we trust in Your unfailing mercy and believe in Your power to restore and renew. May Your presence be a source of hope and healing for all who are in need. In Your holy name, we pray. Amen."
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