Faith to Celebrate the Lenten Season with a Preaching Series

Faith will celebrate the Lenten Season (February 17 – April 2) with a worship service every Wednesday evening at 7 pm. The services are titled the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Preaching Series. We will also have a Good Friday service (April 2) featuring seven women preachers from the metropolitan Atlanta area. The service, titled A Woman’s Voice: He Walked With Me, will give voice to seven women of the New Testament who had a transformational experience with Jesus during His three year ministry.

The Preaching Series dates, speakers, and topics are listed below. All services will be held at Faith.

February 17 (Ash Wednesday), 7 pm
Rev. Reginald Morton
Pastor, New Vision AME Zion Church
“The Loveless Church”

Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm
Rev. Rosanna Brannon
Faith AME Zion Church
“The Persecuted Church”

Wednesday, March 3, 7 pm                                  
Bro. Solomon Missouri
Faith AME Zion Church
“The Compromising Church”

Wednesday, March 10, 7 pm                                
Bro. John Richardson
Faith AME Zion Church
“The Corrupt Church”

Wednesday, March 17, 7 pm                                
Rev. Robin Joseph
Pastor, Greater Light Fellowship AME Zion Church
“The Dead Church”

Wednesday, March 24, 7 pm                                
Dr. Ndugu G. B. T’Ofori-Atta
Faith AME Zion Church
“Faithful Church”

Wednesday, March 31, 7 pm                                
Rev. Jeffrey Briggs
Pastor, Carters Temple AME Zion Church
“The Lukewarm Church”

Thursday, April 1, 7 pm (Maundy Thursday)                                    
Rev. Jawwad J. Love
Pastor, Faith AME Zion Church

Friday, April 2, Noon (Good Friday)                                    
Special Good Friday Service
“A Woman’s Voice: He Walked With Me”
Seven Women, Seven Sermonettes

Earn a $10 Gift Certificate by Participating in an Internet Study on African American Women

Study Announcement

Dr. Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin and her colleagues are conducting a study to explore ethnic differences in midlife women’s attitudes toward physical activity. 

You are eligible to participate in this study if you are a midlife woman aged 40 to 60 years old who does not have any mobility problems; who can read and write English; who is online; and whose self-reported ethnic identity is Hispanic, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African American, or N-H Asian.

Data will be collected through an internet survey among 500 midlife women in the U.S. starting Feb. 1, 2008 and ending May 21, 2011.  Your involvement will consist of about 30 minutes to complete the Internet survey questionnaire. You will be reimbursed with a $10.00 gift certificate for filling out the Internet survey.

For more information and to begin the survey, please visit our project website http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu/MAPA/ and/or contact us.

Contact Information:

Chelsea McPeek, Research Assistant
School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701
E-mail: cgmcpeek@mail.utexas.edu

Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, Professor
School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin
1700 Red River, Austin, TX, 78701
E-mail: eim@mail.utexas.edu
Project Website:  http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu/MAPA/

The following is the background information on the study:

eMAPA is a NIH/NINR funded study (1R01NR010568-01) entitled “Ethnic Specific Midlife Women’s Attitudes Toward Physical Activity”.

The changing racial and ethnic makeup of the U.S. will require health professionals to practice with cultural competence in areas such as promotion of physical activity, where cultural beliefs may mediate health promotion behaviors. Although the benefits of physical activity are now widely accepted, midlife women, especially ethnic minority women, have low participation rates in physical activity, and prevalence rates of cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, and all-cause mortality among ethnic minority women (that can be effectively reduced by increasing physical activity) have been reported to be much higher than those of White midlife women. A plausible reason for the low participation rate is that the women’s ethnic-specific attitudes toward physical activity have rarely been incorporated into relevant interventions. 

The purpose of this study is to explore attitudes of midlife women from four ethnic groups [Hispanic, Non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African Americans, and N-H Asians] toward physical activity while considering the relationships between their attitudes and their actual participation in physical activity within the ethnic-specific contexts of their daily lives. Data will be gathered via Internet survey and ethnic- specific online forums to allow for a national sample.