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The Purpose of Youth Expressions:

The purpose of the magazine is to enlighten our youth; to

discover, create, develop and express the gifts, talents, skills

and life experiences of our youth while presenting a parent-

friendly youth-oriented magazine in the spirit of God.

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A look at what spiritually minded youth are saying

about their history according to the bible

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Greetings and Thank you for taking the time to read our youth magazine. We are a

faith-base community organization and we like to be brief about our vision for the

Grand Crossing Community and Riverdale, IL township. Our focus is youth

development and making sure that our youth are guided from adolescent to adulthood.

Our presence will insure a better life style for our youth with hope that our teens utilize

the life skills that’s needed for them to be successful individuals.

With our efforts, we are inviting you to become a part of our mission and goals as we

develop a powerful team of caring adults that has a passion for our youth. It is their

Time, our youth, and as we look at the weekend news its majority

negative publicity. We believe that we can not stop the negativity

but we will balance the publicity that our teens are due to

receive.

Nevertheless, marching and talking about

solutions to violence is not solutions in the

making. We want to see organizations

engage the communities, and political figures

about job creation, which it is documented

research That unsupervised time puts

youth at risk for such negative

outcomes as academic and behavioral

problems, drug use, gang

activity and other types

of risky behavior.

On the positive side, young people benefit when they spend time engaged in structured

pursuits that offer opportunities for positive interactions with adults and peers,

encourage them to contribute and take initiative, and contain challenging and engaging

tasks that help them develop and apply new skills and personal talents. Therefore, what

better structured pursuits like job creation to get them off the streets. We can all put our

money where our mouth is as a community, and because of sequesters and

government uncertainty, it is time to be a community force without gaps or any breaks

in our programs because funding ran out.

Thank you

Nathaniel Morgan

Publisher/founder

It’s no secret that government and religious organizations have urged people to prepare for future times

of need by storing extra food and water. When you consider the recent downturn in our global

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The month of February has been

designated Black History Month.

The world tell us that Black History Month is set aside

to recognize the contributions that black people have

made to this country and to the world.

When people talk about the contributors, names come

up like Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Jean

Baptiste Point Du Sable, Paul Laurence Dunbar,

W.E.B. Du Boise, Sojourner Truth and a host of others

that have been recognized in the month of February.

CONSIDER THIS! Every person on the planet is

called after a country on a continent. For example,

Mexicans are from Mexico. Chinese are from

China. Sudanese are from Sudan. Nigerian origin

is from the country on the African continent called

Niger. Russians for Russia, Germans for

Germany, so on and so on.

Q: What does black history mean to you?

A: Black history means a lot to me now, because it is

a higher form of learning to me. What I mean by higher

form of learning is that studying the Bible has informed

me that this is a history book about a lot of people,

especially black folks.

Every person on the

planet is called after

a country on a

continent.

Where is the country

called black on the

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When it comes down to black Americans or African

Americans, they are referred to as just black folks. Each

group of people has their own country. Where is the country

called black on the continent of Africa? There are African

Americans, but where in Africa did they come from.

Africa is a big continent with 47 countries; and counting the

African country of islands, the total is 53.

Which one is YOUR origin? You can’t

just go back to your native land while

there are tribal wars and ethic cleansing

taking place in Africa. Even black-on-

black crime in Africa is on a higher scale

of destruction, and is far worse than we

would ever imagine it to be in

comparison with black communities here.

Furthermore, black folks have this story that has not

been told, and is only understood on a spiritual level.

Your mothers, your fathers, teachers, and your pastors

have not shown you how your ancestors proliferated

and were sold throughout the Mediterranean lands of

Asia and Africa and were brought here against their

will, into a land called America, which was not their

own. Let the truth be told to all that have an ear to

hear. Your history is no longer a mystery.

What we would like to do is take you on a journey in a

six-part series, titled Black History told by the

prophets of the Bible. We ask that you follow along

with us and consider the whole matter as we bring

forth a new way of learning black history.

Here are some topics to consider: color, slavery,

spiritual death and resurrection, the priest of God, and

when we were kings. Class Times are 10am & 1:30pm

(SHARP) Every Saturday in February and extends in

March. Were online too!

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Your mothers,

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how your

ancestors

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lands of Asia

and Africa

and were

brought

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against

their will,

into a land

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America,

which was

not their

own.

Q: What type of representation would you

give black history month if you were a

public speaker?

A: I would represent black history straight out the

Bible and let the world know what the prophets of the

Bible had to say about black history. And I would

make people ask questions because I would inform

them of things in the Bible like “My skin is black

upon me” in Job 30 or “I am black, but comely, O ye

daughters of Jerusalem”

in the book of the Song

of Solomon. Even I had

to ask myself what is

this black thing going

on in the Bible.

Q: How can young people

benefit from learning about

black history?

A: Well, I don’t know. I

don’t think young folks want

to benefit from black history.

It sounds like it would be a

boring topic for most teens. Look at it like this: it’s not going to

get them the next high-tech iPod or the latest shoes, or an outfit.

But the benefit for

me from black

history is

KNOWLEDGE,

and that’s an

intangible asset that

no one can take

from me.

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As

youth prepare to become adults,

their roles change: Instead of

always being taken care of, they

increasingly take care of

themselves. While not all youth

will assume traditional leadership

roles as they grow older

(e.g. positions of authority,

political titles, etc.), they will all

become the leaders of their own

lives, a job that demands

leadership ability.

To be successful as adults, all

youth will be required to

demonstrate self-sufficiency

and initiative, which includes

making the right decisions that

lead to success.

Furthermore, youth leadership

opportunities can give youth

the skills that employers most

want for their emergent

workforce: self motivation,

time management, oral and

written communication, team

work, influencing people,

salesmanship, leadership,

solving problems, physical

skills related to health, and

gathering, evaluating, and/or

analyzing

information. Regardless of the

future aspirations of youth,

leadership opportunities can help

all youth develop the skills they

will need in the workforce and for

a lifetime of making good

decisions.

Why should we

practice youth

leadership?

“To be successful

as adults, all

youth will be

required to

demonstrate

self-sufficiency

and initiative,

which includes

making the right

decisions that

lead to success. ”

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Source: Engaging Youth:

A How-To Guide for Creating Opportunities for Young People to Participate, Lead and Succeed 7

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

To produce violence reduction strategies and

prevent a repeated relapse into criminal or

delinquent behavior in at risk youth through

the five aspects of positive youth

development: learning, connecting,

thriving, working, and leading.

To create and

mentor a Youth

Leadership

Counsel for

selected

underprivileged

communities

To recruit and

train available

parents as

mentors

To mentor teens

from adolescent

to adulthood

Our purpose is to teach youth through individual

empowerment toward self-improvement in

personal, social, academic, vocational and

economic skills which would nurture a positive

growth in spirituality, responsibility, education,

work relations, and family structure.

ABOUT US

Q: Is there anything else in the Bible that

might have black written all over it?

A: Well, Genesis 9 and 10 will tell us that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham

and Japheth. Japheth were Caucasians, Ham were Africans, like Egypt for

instance, and Shem, the Semitic people. Then out of Shem came Abraham,

then Isaac, then Jacob.

Jacob’s name was changed to Israel,

then came the 12 tribes of Israel.

One of Israel’s sons was named Levi

and Moses was born out of that

tribe, and he was a Hebrew, that

looked like an Egyptian.

Not only that, Judah was a son of

Israel. Jew is short for Judah. Jesus

was a Jew in the flesh. Jesus came

out of the tribe of Judah, and the

blue-eyed European-looking image

of Jesus that hangs on any wall is

not realistic.

The young brother ran down the

lineage of Noah with emphasis on

Shem leading down to Jesus.

Q: Does that make Paul out of the

same lineage of Israel, that Jesus

came out of?

A: Yes sir, that makes Paul an

Israelite because he said in Romans Chapter 11 verse 1: “Have God

cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the

seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Paul also said in Romans Chapter 9, Christ was his

brother his kinsman according to the flesh.

So, Jesus is an Israelite.

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One of the THOUGHT members spoke about “My skin is

black upon me” and “I am black, but comely, O ye

daughters of Jerusalem”.

Q: What are some other things that were told by the

prophets of the Bible that you are familiar with?

A: I’m familiar with Matthew second Chapter- when the

angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and told him to take the young

child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and “be thou there until I bring you

word,” because Herod

wanted to kill baby Jesus.

At that time Egypt, meaning

black, was a nation of Ham

seeds, before the Islamic

rule of the Arab Empire.

You can hide a black baby

around some black folks,

but you can’t do that now.

Jesus would stick out like a

sore thumb.

Q: Are you knowledgeable about anything

else that the prophets spoke about in the

Bible?

A: Well, I can remember what was told about

Moses. A man from the house of Levi took a

daughter of Levi and had a son, and they hid the

child. When the mother couldn’t hide the child

anymore she put him in a small ark and he floated

down the river. The daughter of Pharaoh found

the baby in the river and said “This is one of the

Hebrews' children.” Now Pharaohs daughter

claimed Moses as her son and Moses had to grow

up in their house.

Now pay attention to this- Pharaoh told the

midwives to throw all the new-born boys in the

river. When the midwives objected to killing these

Hebrew children,

he even ordered

his citizens to

kill the new born

males.

NOW for Moses,

the Hebrew, to

grow up around

Pharaoh an

Egyptian, you

could not tell the

difference

because

Hebrews and

Egyptians are

black.

Q: Paint me a mental picture of

Genesis 50: 1-11 and

explain your understanding

about those particular

passages

A: My understanding is that when

Jacob died or Israel died, Joseph’s father, Joseph packed

up his house and his father’s house, the servants of

Pharaoh, and the elders of his house and the little ones.

All of them left the land of Goshen to go back to the land

of Canaan to bury Jacob. But when the Canaanites saw

Israel approaching them, the Canaanites said, “This is a

grievous mourning to the Egyptians”.

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