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Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Eatonville FL1st Quarter 2014

Phase I Building is complete!

Zora Festival

Diabetes Awareness

Members

Church Anniversary 132 Years

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Dr. Laverne Parrish & granddaughter Emma

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might become rich (2 Cor. 8:9). If He gave Himself for us, surely we should give ourselves for Him.

Secondly, Sacrifi ce is Asked of Us. “... that ye present your bodies a living sacrifi ce... unto God.” Why the body? The body is the instrument, or weapon, of the Holy Spirit, which dwells in you. The possibilities of the body, for good or evil, are tremendous. (Romans 6:13) How often backsliding and failure may be traced to the unconsecrated member of the body. To be a living sacrifi ce is to be continually and completely at God’s disposal. This is “holy and acceptable to God.” And also because of its acceptability to Him, it is most reasonable that it should be given. The yielding of ourselves unto God is the root and branch of self denial, without which there can be no true discipleship.

Thirdly, Sacrifi ce Ensures Greater Blessing for Us. In presenting ourselves “a living sacrifi ce” to God, we are saving ourselves from being “conformed

Have you ever considered the importance of sacrifi ce in your life as a believer in Jesus Christ? Many believers can not appreciate the spiritual intimacy of being a participant with the providence of the will of God when it comes to sacrifi ce. The thought of sacrifi ce runs throughout the books of the Bible. Any act of sacrifi ce is voluntary and becomes a revelation of character of the individual. Let us note three reasons why sacrifi ce for the believer is most reasonable.

First, Sacrifi ce was Made for Us. “Christ loved us and gave Himself for us” (Ephesians 5:2). “Himself for our sins” (Galatians 1:4). What a costly sacrifi ce for such a purpose. By the sacrifi ce of Himself, He hath put away sin forever as an obstacle in the sinner’s way of approach unto God (Heb. 9:26). In giving Himself, He gave all that He was and had; not an impoverished self, for He who was rich for our sakes became poor, that we, through His self- emptying,

to this age” and also putting ourselves into that position in which we can “prove the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” The goodness and beautiful perfect will of God can never be proven in our own personal experience until we have sacrifi ced completely ourselves. A life wholly surrendered to God is only reasonable life, which Christians can live. It is the secret of usefulness, because it means the proper adjustment of the faculties and functions of our being to the perfect will and purposes of God.

We can make a difference in the service of the kingdom of God by living a life acceptable to Him.

God has good, pleasing, and perfect plans for his children. He wants us to be transformed people with renewed minds, living to honor and obey him. Because he wants only what is best for us, and because he gave his Son to make our new lives possible, we should joyfully give ourselves as living sacrifi ces for his service.

By Sacrifi cing

“I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifi ce, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1

INSPIRATION FROM THE PASTOR

Reverend Willie C Barnes

Making A Difference

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Pictures of Macedonia Members dressed in their African Attire as we celebrated our Church Anniversary!

Sister Hattie Greene & Barbara Hartsfi eld

Macedonia Celebrates 132nd Church Anniversary

Deacon & Sister DeanMegan Byrd

Sister Carolean Sanders & Frances DavisDeacons Williams, Sutton, Raysor & Hayward

Mr. & Mrs. TJ Kirkland

Sister G. Bush, C. Hayward & D. SmithRhonda Hall & Kassandra Woods

S. Childress, B. Bynum & N. Berry

Sister Vereen & Sister Raysor Sister F. Davis, B. Hartsfi eld & P. StewartAlex Allgood

photos by Angelo Davis

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Saturday, February 1. Everyone had a great me with Frankie Beverly! Some of the more popular ac vi es included the Book Fair, “An Evening with Zora” featuring Lynn Whi ield and Avery Brooks, HATitude Brunch & Party and the Silver Anniversary Gala.

Here are some other events that you may have caught: Friday “Educa on Day”, Saturday “Family Day”, and Sunday “Inspira on Day”; Special Features such as: ‘Round ‘Bout Midnight” Series from 11:30PM – 1:00AM (Wednesday-Friday) that included Spoken Word, Stand-Up Comedy and Jazz. Also, there were Special Features including Female

The 25th Annual Zora Neal Hurston Fes val of the Arts and Humani es was presented by The Associa on to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P. E. C.), January 25-February 2, 2014. Congresswoman Corrine Brown served as Honorary Chair of the event and Marie-Jose’ Francois, M.D., is the President of the P.E.C. This years’ theme was “Celebra ng Our Milestone: 25 Years of ZORA! Fes vals.”

The highly an cipated fes val fea-tured a variety of ac vi es to sa sfy everyone including the Outdoor Fes val of the Arts featured a Center Stage Headline Performance by Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly on

Florida: Historic Women in Their Own Voice [Featuring: Mary McLeod Bethune-Marjorie Stoneman Doug-lass Zora Neale Hurston- Caroline P. Rosse er], ZORA! STEM Conference, Crea ve Wri ng Workshop for High School Students and Special Topics: “Eatonville – Primary Sources”, Zora Neale Hurston – “Digital Humani- es”/Virtual Reality, “Remembering

Richard A. Long”, Landscape Archi-tects – Professional In-Service Course and Keeping the Community Safe Public Safety Exhibi on.

So stay tuned for next year’s fes val! T here’s a lot more to do than meets the eye!

Zora Festival 2014 Brings the Community Together!

Meet n’ Greet with Recording Artist Frankie Beverly. Pictured with Eatonville’s Mayor Bruce Mount, Congresswoman and Honorary Chairwoman Corrine

Brown and Recording Artist Melba Moore

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Recording Artist Melba Moore performs at Macedonia

Congresswoman Corrine Brown, Honorary Chairperson, unveils new Shirley Chisholm stamp during presentation from Brighthouse sponsors.

The Zora Neal Hurston stamp, on the right, was issued in 2003.

Mrs. Ware’s dance group Joe & Evelyn Cleveland with friend

Gail Newton & friends Lynette Bruce & Minnie Jackson Melba Moore

Carolyn Atkins enjoys the festival Eatonville Super Sensational Steppers Venus Highsmith & Bettina Norman

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Macedonia Celebrates 132nd Church Anniversary with Completion of Phase I Building Project

The ribbon was cut on February 23 to celebrate the comple on of our commercial kitchen built by Votum/Turner Construc on. The commercial kitchen will al-low Macedonia to be er serve our members but the kitchen’s awesome capability will only be realized when Phase 2 of our build- ing plan is completed. Phase 2 includes a 200 seat chapel, senior center, children’s nursery, and gymnasium/cultural center.

The kitchen is capable of suppor ng a sit down dinner in Lias Hall while concurrently serving a 500 person buf-fet in our gymnasium/culture center.

A professional chef, DeShaun Sco is already on staff . He will require several weeks to secure the necessary kitchen items required to support our needs.

Our architect, Rhodes and Bri o, have completed all engineering drawings and the Town of Eatonville has approved the drawings for the total project. The only remaining challenge is for Macedonia members to raise suffi cient funds so that the church can secure a mortgage. Macedonia successfully secured a mortgage to build our sanctuary, which was paid off in fi ve years rendering the church debt free ever since. Building Phase 2 is cri cal to support our current and expanding ministry requirements.

Each member plays a vital role in helping to reach our expansion goals. You can make a diff erence by commit- ng and contribu ng to the Capital Campaign Pledge

(Above) Pastor Barnes dedicates new commercial kitchen (right)

*Additional photos by Angelo Davis are available at: www.seemyprints.com

Event Name: MMBC KitchenPassword: mmbc

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photos by Angelo Davis

From Movement to Monument

Building Committee Chair Colonel Jones, Trustee Chair Jackie Torbert, Sister Blue, Pastor Barnes and Votum Construction cut

ribbon to new commercial kitchen

Chairman of Deacon BoardDeacon Ernest Williams

Members are excited as they get their fi rst look at the new facility!

Dedication Service!

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Volunteers

A Legacy of Health Florida volunteer is honored for helping her community

JOYCE BOUDOIN GOT involved with the American

Diabetes Association’s Safe at School® program when her

daughter, Alexis, now 10, was diagnosed with type 1

diabetes five years ago. But it was her mother’s history

with type 2 diabetes that encouraged Boudoin to reach

beyond school and into the African American community

as a volunteer, leader, and Diabetes Advocate.

Boudoin, of Apopka, Fla., was awarded the American

Diabetes Association Stop Diabetes® LEARN Outreach

Award at November’s 2013 Community Volunteer

Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn. In a letter

detailing her nomination, Association leaders honored

Boudoin’s dedication as a volunteer with Safe at School®,

Step Out®: Walk to Stop Diabetes®, and Live Empowered:

Learning to Thrive With and Prevent Diabetes®, the

Association’s African American programs.

The memory of her mother, who died of diabetes

complications in 2010, motivates Boudoin to continue her

work in the African American community. “My mother was

very ill … renal failure, heart problems as well, just generally

deteriorating,” Boudoin remembers. “It wasn’t until one

doctor sat me down and said, ‘You realize this is the result

of years of not controlling her blood sugar.’ I thought,

‘There’s got to be something we can do about this.’ ”

Since 2011, Boudoin has trained other leaders in at least

15 different churches in her community, all through the Live

Empowered program, which targets African American

religious communities and is designed to help people get

more informed about their health. Boudoin’s own church,

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Eatonville, Fla.,

has an active health ministery, now with a focus on diabetes

that began with Boudoin’s introduction of ADA materials.

Pauline Lowe, program director with the Association’s

central Florida office, says she admires Boudoin as a

Diabetes Advocate. “Joyce’s enthusiasm is infectious!

It is not unusual for me to receive long e-mails outlining

her ideas and strategies to increase our reach in the

community and engage more people,” Lowe says.

“Not only does she share information and resources;

she is always actively recruiting more volunteers to help

Stop Diabetes.” ▲

Joyce Boudoin, with her husband, Luther Boudoin, and

daughters, Alexis and Loryn. Alexis has type 1 diabetes.

Get Involved Celebrate Black History Month by getting

involved in the American Diabetes Association’s Live

Empowered programs. Learn more at diabetes.org/

liveempowered. Find events near you by contacting your

local ADA office at 1-800-DIABETES (800-342-2383).

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Diabetes Association Stop Diabetes® LEARN Outreach Award

Reprinted with permission from Diabetes Forecast magazine, www.diabetesforecast.org, published by the American Diabetes Association.

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The Singles Ministry of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church is growing, but we would like for you to help us grow even more. We have all ages young, middle age and seniors who are involved in several different activities, but still very faithful the ministry.

2014 is our year to shine, not only at Macedonia, but also in the Local Community. On January 11th we hosted our fi rst event of the year in Lias Hall which was the ministry’s Annual Fish Fry and Game Night. We had approximately 60 members and guest to attend this year’s event. There was plenty of food and games to test one’s skills. In addition, to all of the food, fun and fellowship, we even had our version of the adult “Musical Chairs”.

As we continue to implement the vision which has already been established, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our past Presidents, Sis. Tricia Martin and Sis. Peggy Johnson for their dedication and hard work for building the foundation for the Singles Ministry. As the new incoming President for 2014, I have been given the baton for the next year to continue to build on the vision. I am confi dent that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

As we continue to move forward in 2014, please see as follows a few upcoming events the ministry will be hosting:

April 12, 2014 - Assist a Senior Member of the Church in cleaning their yards.

June 6-7, 2014 - Workshop with Rev. Earl B Mason, Bible base Church, Temple Terrace.

Sept 26-28, 2014 Get-A-Way to Savannah GA .

The 2014 Board Members for The Singles Ministry are as follows:

Bro. Leo Tarver, PresidentSis. Hortencia Owens, V. President

Sis. Peggy Johnson, SecretaryBro. Edwin Neat, Event Planner

Ministry Advisors: Deacon Nate & Sis. Patricia Carrington

Single Adult Ministry (SAM)by Leo Tarver

Fish Fry and Game night, Jan 11, 2014, Lias Hall

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The Brotherhoodby Lee Dixon

Veteran’s Appreciation

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Orlando Chapter expressed their apprecia on to local veterans on Sun-day, January 19, 2014. The organiza on’s fi rst local “ America’s Sunday Supper” is pa erned a er the sup-pers Dr. Mar n Luther King Jr. hosted during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The spiritual-based sup-pers were gatherings for the community to seek so-lu ons to challenges faced by society. Macedonia members, Mrs. Janice Saulsby and Donna Gatling spear-headed these great event and we say, “Thank You”.

Central Florida Concierge Associa on, (CFCA) recently awarded Leo Tarver, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, “Associate of the Year” for 2013. He is Visit Orlando’s Chairman of Part-ner Rela ons Commi ee, (2) term, the First African American to hold this posi on. Addi onally, he is a Central Florida Concierge Associa on Board Member, two (2) term; First African American on the board. This is Leo’s second me receiving this award; he received in 2003. Congrats Leo Tarver!

Leo Tarver

Deacon Lee Dixon (5th from le , 1st row) represents Macedo-nia as Congress No. 1 Brotherhood President. He par cipated in the Brotherhood Prayer Breakfast at New Hope in Tampa during the Progressive Missionary & Educa on Bap st Conven on. Af-ter the breakfast, they organized outreach by ministering in the neighborhood and visi ng the nursing homes in that area. Dea-con Dixon encourages all men to learn and prac ce the Brother-hood Mo o, "Teach the Word at home with a consecrated heart, following the footsteps of our Savior, leading all men to God". Brother Dixon stands next to State Brotherhood President Wayne Herring and Na onal Brotherhood President Forestal Lawton.

Deacon Lee Dixon (5th from le 1st row) represents Macedo

Veit Renn has just released a new album en tled “Overdue” which features the songs, “I Do” (featuring Janice Renn), “Before or A er” and many more. Pick up a copy on Itunes!

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New Album

Prestigious Award

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Volume 22, Issue 1 (Cover Photo by A. Davis)This news magazine is a publication of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Eatonville FL located at: 412 East Kennedy Boulevard, Eatonville FL 32751. Ph 407-647-0010.

Mailing Address: P. O. Box 940515, Maitland FL 327941-0515.MdoniaNews@aol .com

Staff Contributors This Month: Rev. Willie C Barnes, Pastor; Venus Highsmith, Editor; Deacon Angelo Davis, Assistant Editor/Photographer; Angela Dixon.Additional Contributors:.Lisa Baldwin, Lee Dixon, Rhonda Hall, Colonel Don Jones, Leo Tarver, Tonja Williams.

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Editor’s Note:

More mes than of-ten, we think we have more me with loved ones & friends. That was the case with Macedonia’s beloved custodian, James Rudolph Cam-bridge. But at only 48 years of age, he is gone too soon. James was kind to everyone and could o en be heard singing off key [smile] as he worked.

At the offi ce, we would all have a good laugh about it with him and he would go right back to sing-ing. Our prayers go out to his wife Sonya and their children. His gentle, kind spirit is missed by all here at Macedonia. Rest in peace James and sing on !

Pastor Proposals 2014: Six leadership mee ngs recommended

for the year.

Fiscal year changes in 2014 to Nov 1 - October 31.

Three leaders of Women’s Ministry (Sister Anita Barnes, Angela Dixon and Hazel Amos).

Helen Dennis to lead the Capital Campaign eff ort.

Upcoming Events! Senior Profi les are due now to the Youth Of-fi ce for all graduating High School Seniors in

order to be including in this year’s recognition program.

May 10th, 8:30 am, in Lias Hall, Pre-Mother’s Day Breakfast, “The Legacy of a Mother.”

Original Magic DancersMacedonia is proud to have as its members two of the original Orlando Magic Dancers, Katrina Webster-

Baker and Lisa Baldwin. They recently performed in the Orlando Magic Dancers 25th Reunion.

Venus Highsmith

James R. Cambridge

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church Presents

TThe 116tth AAnnnnuuaall PPrree--MMootthheerr’’ss DDay Breakfast

When: Saturday, May 10, 2014

Time: 8:30 a.m.

Where: Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church

Peter L. Lias Fellowship Hall 412 East Kennedy Boulevard

Eatonville, FL 32751

Come, Celebrate! “The Legacy of a Mother”

Tickets: $15.00