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Des Moines School Board To Vote On Cutting Narcisse’s Term On Tuesday, June 3rd, The Des Moines Independent Community School District Board of Directors will discuss, and possibly vote on reducing Jonathan Narcisse’s term on the school board by a year. A quiet provision designed specifically for Narcisse in an election reform bill passed this spring, allows the board to reduce his term if they choose to. The bill came from Secretary of State Michael Mauro. Narcisse, frequently attacked by some of his fellow board members and Superintendent Nancy Sebring for stressing the importance of accurate data, greater accountability, transparency, dropping graduation and achievement numbers, will continue to expose long hidden truths about the district including the recent announcement by the Iowa Department of Education that Des Moines has the state’s second poorest graduation rate of Iowa’s 364 school districts.

Fear God, Tell the Truth & Make Money • The Oldest Black Publication West of the Mississippi • Vol. 117 No. 42 • May 19, 2008

28th Anniversary Celebration You’re Never To Old For Pastor And Sister Brown Smith Graduates From DMACC

Rev. Dr. Sherman L. Brown The members of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church invite the public to attend the 28th Anniversary Celebration for Rev. Dr. Sherman L. Brown, pastor, and Sis. Charlene Brown, First Lady of Shiloh. On June 1st at 10:00 a.m. the special guest will be Rev. Harold Davis of Corinthian Missionary Baptist Des Moines and at 3:30 p.m. the guest pastors will be Rev. Dr. Henry I. Thomas, Union Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Keith A.

Ratliff, Maple St. Missionary Baptist Church and Rev. Terrance Cooley, Second Baptist, Marshalltown. On June 2nd at 7:00 p.m. the guest pastors will be Rev. Isaiah Brown, Our Saviour Baptist Church, Rev. David Finnell, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Orlabor, and Rev. Bobby Young, Mt. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church. On June 3rd at 7:00 p.m. the guest pastors will be Rev. James Wright, Sr., Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church and Rev. Clifford Wright, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. On June 4th at 7:00 p.m. the guest pastors will be Rev. Irvin Lewis, Sr., King of Kings Missionary Baptist Church, Elder Supt. R.L. Daye, New Friendship Church of God In Christ, Elder Stevie Carter, Bread of Life, Church of God in Christ and Elder Aaron Carter, Jr., Carter Memorial Church of God in Christ. On June 5th at 7:00 p.m. the guest pastors will be Rev. Dr. Lee Zachary Maxey, Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Alex Crawford, Jr., Morningstar Missionary Baptist Church and Rev. Dale Terry, Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church. On June 6th at 7:00 p.m. the guest pastors will be Bishop E.L. Dillard, New Beginnings Baptist Church, Rev. Stephen Long, Valley Community Church, Elder Marion Eppright, Faith Tabernacle Church of God in Christ and Rev. Billy Young, Macedonia Baptist Church. On June 8th at 10:00 a.m. the guest pastor will be Rev. Arthur E. Mills, Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church, Waterloo and at 3:30 p.m. the guest pastor will be Rev. Dr. Floyd E. Brown, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Sioux City. This year’s theme is: “I cannot come down.” Nehemiah 6:3 Deacon Sylvester and Deaconess Rosetta Green are the chairpersons and Rev. Dr. Carolyn Clinton King and Deacon Thomas Braxton, Jr., are the publicity chairs. Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church is located at 1218 Scott Avenue, Des Moines. For more information call 515243-1465.

On May 5th, at the age of 55, Paul L. Smith of Des Moines graduated from Des Moines Area Community College with an Associate in Applied Science in Graphic Technology Degree. Paul graduated from Des Moines Technical High School in 1972 where he majored in food service. From there he went into the United States Army where he was a cook, and a grunt in Vietnam, Germany and Fort Eustis, Virginia until 1975. Paul moved to California and started teaching cooking at the Job Corp in San Jose, California. Paul lived in California for 20 years working as a chef and raising his children until 1993 when his father passed away and his mother Rosalie Reese (Beechum) wanted to move back home. He moved back with her and he worked as a chef at Babe’s Downtown, and as the Ornish Chef for Mercy where he wrote fat free recipes for heart patients. I n 2005 Paul and his wife, Debbie Woods-Smith, were planning on selling their home in Iowa and moving to New Mexico to live when the Lord came to Paul and said find your granddaughter Isis. He started looking for her and found her living with her grandmother in Lodi, California and she was having trouble trying to take care of Isis and her other three grand hildren. She agreed to let Paul come to California to

get her so Debbie and Paul went to California to get Isis. Once there they went through some trials and tribulations but with the help of prayer and God they overcame and got Isis. Once back in Des Moines Isis started asking questions of her grandpa and he would never answer. He would tell her “I don’t know ask grandma.” Well one day she asked him a question and he told her that famous answer to not ask him but ask grandma. She thought for a moment and then said “what do you know grandpa?” He told her that

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ICSAA Announces Disparity Study In Progress In Davenport From Rev. Abraham Funchess Executive Director, ICSAA The Commission on the Status of African Americans (ICSAA) has granted the City of Davenport $75,000 matching money for the purpose of conducting a Disparity Study, which is now in progress. The Disparity Study is being conducted by Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd., an African American female-headed firm, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. “Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd., a public policy research and public relations company located in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been providing professional services for 25 years to public agencies and corporations to improve contracting with minority and woman-owned vendors. This company prides itself on its multidisciplinary staff that consists of social scientists, public relations experts, lawyers, and statisticians. Mason Tillman Associates specializes in business and affirmative actions program analysis, regulatory compliance, community outreach, and social

marketing. The mission of Mason Tillman Associates is to perform responsible work that contributes to the social order. We achieve that by providing cost-effective and innovative solutions for corporate and government clients.” Our Commissioner there, Mr. Redmond Jones, is the Affirmative Action Officer for the city and is the main contact person for the work going on in that locale.

· Has the City passively participated in a system of racial exclusion practiced by elements of the business community? · Has the City fully utilized their opportunities to provide raceand gender-neutral measures? Will additional race- and genderneutral measures sufficiently remove any identified barriers? · Are race- and gender-based remedies warranted? · Is present/continuing discrimination occurring?

Disparity Studies try to answer the following questions: · Is there a disparity between the number of qualified minority, women and disadvantaged-owned firms willing and able to perform a particular service and the number of such firms actually engaged by the City? · Has the City engaged in practices that have prevented or deterred minority, women and disadvantaged business owners from participating fairly and equally in goods and services contracts?

Our Hope We hope that the recommendations provided as a result of this 10-month study will be seriously considered to help address and redress any and all areas of unfairness and discrimination in the city of Davenport , particularly in the area of construction. We are optimistic as we appreciate the leadership of William Gluba, the Mayor of Davenport, who helped champion the call for this study. We want this study in Davenport to be a model for other cities here in the state and region.

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“We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” -- Mary McLeod Bethune

The “New Normal” Continues! Since we received great feedback about the “New Normal” article from last week’s issue, we want to continue, giving you more for the mind to ponder. Let’s talk about gatekeepers and their negative effect on our community. When the old normal operates as the gatekeeper, we continue operating in the same vein, producing nothing, and the things we want to accomplish end up taking a back seat, again, leaving the gatekeeper’s personal agenda to take the forefront. Take for instance the Commission on the Status of African Americans. Now we have this Covenant with Black Iowa but do we really know what’s going on with it or what the commission is doing to further the mission, since we’ve heard no more? It’s because we have a gatekeeper that appears to have changed from being for the people, to now being sucked into the old normal, that old mind set — “I’m the show… not the message” — bad move. With the hunger of young people for more; more opportunity, more options, and more money, they can’t continue to get milk, it’s time for meat. The “New Normal” attitude is “how the meat gets to the people

who crave something new, that can have a lasting impact on our community.” The National NAACP has chosen to move into the “New Normal” way of thinking by selecting a younger person to take the reigns of leadership. Maybe some of our gatekeepers should see the writing on the wall…move out of the way… and let a “New Normal” thinking gatekeeper take on the role, and get the gate to swing both ways. The winds of change are blowing strong and decisive. When the old normal way of doing things just won’t cut it anymore, or the old normal way just doesn’t produce anymore, it’s time to apply the “New Normal” thinking to the efforts we undertake. Even using the Iowa Bystander Newspaper in the right way is taking a new normal stance. Voting for the right public official now requires us to be vigilant and use “New Normal” thinking when casting our franchise for a person to work for us or represent our interests and not, their own. Who will step up and be a “New Normal Thinker”? Moving towards change…………JB

Iowa Civil Rights Commission Working Toward A State Free of Discrimination

Smith: Continued from page 1 grandpa “don’t know nothing so you should ask grandma everything.” This five year old child looked him strait in the eye and said “Grandpa, don’t you think you should go to school so that you can learn something.” So Paul, who was wounded in Vietnam and lost some toes which left him 40% disabled, went to the Veterans Administration where they tested him. They sent him to the adult literacy program at Drake where he found out he was reading at a 6 th grade level and his comprehension was at a 6 th grade level. After working with Paul for a year they got him to an 11 th grade reading level and his comprehension up to an 11th grade level which was good enough for him to go to college. Paul wanted to take photography but DMCC didn’t offer just photography so he enrolled in the Graphic Technology program. This was not as easy as it sounds. During Paul’s 2 ½ year quest he had many family members pass away including his brother-in-law Michael Woods, his oldest brother Hurl Smith, his uncle and an aunt but he just kept on going. With the help of God and prayer he made it. Paul is currently a photojournalist with the Iowa Bystander and Cyclonetimes.com.

Pictured: Isis with Miss Black Iowa

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Democratic Chairman, What’s Going On? Iowa Superdelegate Endorses Obama

Hillary Out - McCain In! By Robert V. Morris After a decisive win in Oregon and a huge rally before 7,000 supporters in Des Moines, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is picking up steam toward the general election battle with Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Although Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton again rallied the white “Rednecks” in Kentucky to win there, she is on a slippery slope and soon will slide off to her demise. Although she has every right to run to the end, her candidacy continues to racially polarize the party and will aid their Republican opposition this fall. Obama’s endorsement by former rival John Edwards and lead among pledged and super delegates, 1,949 to Hillary’s 1,769 toward a goal of 2,026, gives him an insurmountable margin that she could only negate with some sort of tricks at the convention which would destroy the party and assure another four years of Bush policies under McCain. The media portrays Sen. McCain as this formidable candidate in the fall but I predict just the opposite. After Hillary goes away and tempers cool, Democrats will realize that they must support Obama or four more years of Bush with a fractured economy and expensive and bloody war with our troops protecting people like the Saudis who are using us while abusing our economy with their oil production limits and prices. Don’t forget that most of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudis. On the local front, the DMPD caught a 28 year old brother who was allegedly burglarizing homes with people sleeping inside and stealing cars for joy rides. The Des Moines School District is considering rule changes that could force outspoken Jonathan Narcisse out early although he can run again. Iowa Representative Wayne Ford has a challenger but his constituency is solid and he should win easily. In sports, yet another black athlete leaves or is kicked off the basketball or football teams at Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. As an Iowa alum and a former ISU instructor who keeps an eye on both schools, it is obvious that the coaching staff’s are not doing a good job of

keeping connected with their black athletes. No blacks in their administrations and few black assistant coaches who can relate to these young athletes and prevent bad decisions before they are made is part of the problem. Be it athletes or everyday students, kids are different today from my generation because they are bombarded with sex, violence and thug behavior over VH1, BET and the internet everyday and broken families lack the extended family and community support to raise kids with good morals and study habits. Black incarceration in Iowa is at an all-time high while many inmates, exposed to gay sex in prison, resume relationships with their girlfriends upon their release making heterosexual black women the highest group of new HIV/AIDS infections nation-wide. Contrary to the evils I mentioned, a great group of black high school kids graduate this weekend and I am proud of them all. Congratulations to my son Robert, who lost a close friend in January, and all of his class for sticking with it through often tough times and resisting the negative forces of their generation and walking the stage on time. Salute!

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Superdelegate and Iowa Democratic Chairman Scott Brennan endorsed Barack Obama on Tuesday, hours before the presidential candidate makes his first visit to Iowa since the state's precinct caucuses. Brennan's backing brings Obama's total delegate count to 1,917, a little more than 100 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination. That total includes 306.5 superdelegates, according to the latest Associated Press count. Hillary Rodham Clinton had 1,722 delegates, including 278.5 superdelegates. Brennan said the Illinois senator had built one of the strongest grassroots organizations ever leading up to the Iowa caucuses. ``Obama is bringing new people into the political process at historical levels, not just here in Iowa, but nationally,'' Brennan said during a news conference at the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters in Des Moines. ``Barack Obama is going to help build the strong future of the Democratic Party.'' Brennan said he initially didn't make an endorsement to create a level playing field leading up to Iowa's caucuses. The first-in-the-nation contest was held Jan. 3 and resulted in a solid win for Obama.

Seven of Iowa's 11 superdelegates have endorsed Obama. Three have endorsed Clinton. Sen. Tom Harkin is Iowa's only uncommitted superdelegate. Asked why he hasn't backed a candidate, Harkin said he will maintain his neutrality until after all the state contests. ``There are a handful of states left and I believe the people in those states should weigh in before I do,'' Harkin said in a statement. In response to a question, Brennan said it's unlikely Clinton will quit the race before the Democratic National Convention in August. ``Iowans like Hillary Clinton, they respect Hillary Clinton. I like her and I respect her, and it's entirely up to her whether or not she drops out,'' he said. Brennan said the extended contest between Obama and Clinton hadn't hurt the party. ``The process has played out very, very well,'' he said. Iowa will remain a critical battleground state, Brennan said, adding that Obama ``understands the important role that Iowa will play in the fall, and he is committed to campaigning here.'' Brennan said the senator will remain supportive of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, and ``will help Democrats win up and down the ticket.' ooo

Columnist Robert V. Morris can be reached at [email protected].

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We will face our share of difficult and uncertain days in the journey ahead. The other side knows they have embraced yesterday's policies and so they will also embrace yesterday's tactics to try and change the subject. They will play on our fears and our doubts and our divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future.

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Elpis Fellowship — Weekly Meditation

Trouble Will Come Scripture Reference: Psalm 46:1-7 Verse of Concentration: Psalm 46:1, 7 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. The Lord of Host is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge” – Psalm 46:1, 7 As a body of believers, we will experience trouble. But when it comes, how do we handle it? Do we get frustrated, give up or give in to the pressure? Do we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the cares and concerns of this world? We don’t have to take it lying down, when trouble shows up. There may be no way to avoid trouble or the challenges of life, but Jesus has given us the power and authority to exist in the midst of it all. He is with us through every trial and tribulation. In John 16:33, Jesus reminds us “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Jesus is still saying to us today that “in this world,” we will have tribulations, trials or trouble, but in Him, we have peace.” So, when trouble comes, know “God is your refuge and strength, a very present help in the time of trouble.” In lieu of running to the world, our families, and friends, run to Him. For the righteous run to Him and finds safety, and He’s promised to “delivers us from them all”! We live in this world, but we are not of this world. FOCUS: When trouble comes run to your place of safety and protection which in the Lord Jesus Christ. Elpis Fellowship Michelle Harris

Presbyterians Pick Black Leader For Seminary RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - For the first time in its 196-year history, one of the nation's oldest Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminaries will be led by a black pastor, a triumph for AfricanAmericans who hope he'll use his position to nurture the next generation of minority pastors. Brian Blount, the head of Richmond's Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, is positioned to shape everything from recruitment to curriculum for the institution. Supporters hope Blount's high-profile position will inspire black students to attend the school; later, as pastors, those students could draw a more diverse group of parishioners desired by this shrinking 2.3-million-member denomination, which is 92 percent white. Blount, 51, embraced the challenge at a May 7 inauguration ceremony.

``Are we ready to be more diverse?'' Blount asked, to applause. ``If we're going to transform a multicultural world, we must be a multicultural seminary.'' He takes on the role in the former capital of the Confederacy, at a seminary where one Civil Warera professor boldly spoke in favor of slavery. ``It is a historic moment,'' said the Rev. Gregory Bentley, head of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus in Charlotte, N.C. ``The symbolism of it, I think, is powerful in that it points the way to the possibility of an inclusive and diverse future.'' The nation's largest body of Presbyterians, the Louisville, Ky.-based PCUSA has fewer than 80,000 black members. They are concentrated in the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia. The number of black ministers in the PCUSA

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Latham Report: Coming Together To Support Iowa Health Care And Nurses By Congressman Tom Latham Iowa currently stands at a health care crossroads: on one hand we have access to top-of-theline health care, but on the other, we’re facing a shortage of nurses who are the support backbone of the entire health care industry. Our state is currently struggling with an 8 percent shortage of nurses, while Iowa’s population is aging. Baby boomers are retiring and will soon need greater health care attention from nurses throughout the state. If we do nothing, we will face a nursing shortage in ten short years of 27 percent. That means almost a third of all nursing positions in Iowa will go unfilled. Iowans want leadership on this issue, and leadership in Washington means that both sides have to come together to support real world, commonsense solutions. As some of you may know, over the last several months I have been meeting with leaders of the nursing community. I've traveled to meet face to face with Iowa’s nurses and listened to what they have to say. I’ve been listening to E.R. nurses, small community health clinic nurses, nurse educators, nurse advocates, and nursing administrators. And I’ve reached out to this community to better understand the problems Iowa nurses and health care face, because I intend to use my position in Washington to help provide a strong part of the solution. And it's true that solutions are hard to come by in Washington... the partisan bickering on both sides of the aisle can often destroy what could have been a great solution to a real problem. I think Iowans want to see their representatives work together on their behalf. My job will be to tell the story of Iowa's nursing crisis in Congress and work together with others in Congress to find solutions to the crisis. Only by working together regardless of party affiliation can Congress be of any help to Iowa’s nurses, health care infrastructure and citizens. Legislation in Washington is hopefully partnership rather than partisanship, but it always needs to be responsible to the people it tries to

help. Any nursing legislation should remember that nurses are the people who support some of the most high-tech health care equipment in Iowa, while at the same time they’re also the people who roll up their sleeves to work with patients and their loved ones in times of crisis and need. Our nurses work in urban trauma centers and rural health clinics. Iowa’s nurses are the foundation of a patient’s health care plan. It is a nurse who is the one taking care of us when we arrive at a hospital. They’re there helping us when we get treatment, when we laugh, when we cry, and they’re there when we get better. And they’re also the ones who are with us when we don’t. Nurses have the strength of character to bring compassionate professionalism to some of the most difficult times in our lives and in the lives of our loved ones. I look forward to hearing from you on how we can best support Iowa’s nurses and health care, and in supporting real, Iowa common-sense solutions to address this problem.

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Last Surviving Brown v. Board Plaintiff Dies At 88 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88. Zelma Henderson died Tuesday in Topeka, six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her son, Donald, said she wasn't physically imposing, but when she was passionate about something, ``She was just fire.'' In 1950, Henderson signed onto the litigation on behalf of her children challenging Topeka's segregated schools. In all, 13 black parents in Topeka, including the Rev. Oliver Brown, took part in the federal case. The plaintiffs lost in U.S. District Court, but the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and consolidated with similar cases from Virginia, South Carolina and Delaware. The high court's unanimous ruling overturning school segregation came on May 17, 1954. As a child in the 1920s and '30s, Henderson had attended desegregated schools in the western Kansas town of Oakley. She was disgusted when she learned her own children would be required to attend segregated schools in Topeka. Her children were forced to attend a school

that was 10 blocks farther away from their home than a whites-only school. ``I wanted my children to know all races like I did,'' Zelma Henderson told The Associated Press in 2004. ``It means a lot to a person's outlook on life. No inferiority complex at all, that's what I wanted for my children as far as race was concerned.'' The Brown v. Board National Historic Site is now operated by the National Park Service in a formerly segregated school building. ``Her passing is a rather large milestone in the history of the case and that period of our history,'' said Dennis Vasquez, superintendent of the historic site. ``It puts it in more of a historical perspective because there are no longer any living plaintiffs in the Topeka case.'' He said Zelma Henderson was actively involved with the historic site, including appearing in an interactive video for visitors. The site opened May 17, 2004, the 50th anniversary of Brown decision, and President Bush spoke at the dedication ceremony. While Zelma Henderson was the last surviving Topeka plaintiff, there still are some plaintiffs from the other state cases consolidated with Brown. The Supreme Court also upheld a related challenge involving segregation in the District of Columbia the same day Brown was decided.

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Luke warm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” - - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Polk County Early Voting Numbers Strong Thus Far Polk County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections Jamie Fitzgerald today announced that the early voting for the 2008 Primary Election is on par with what the office experienced in the 2006 primary. “In 2006, we saw both political parties with statewide primaries for Secretary of Agriculture and a hotly contested Democratic primary for Governor, which led to a higher number of early voters than we usually see.” Fitzgerald stated. “This year is proving to be no different with a Democratic primary for Congress and a handful of legislative primaries.” In 2006, the Polk County Election Office had 2,819 Democratic absentee ballot requests with 2,319 of them being returned and has 343 Republican absentee ballot requests with 291 of them being returned. To date, Democrats have requested 1,915 absentee ballots countywide and 965 have been returned. Republicans have requested 144 absentee ballots countywide and 48 have been returned Fitzgerald said that he expects the number to increase as his office will be open the next two Saturdays for absentee voting. “Given the proximity of our office to the Des Moines’ Farmers Market we feel strongly that we will surpass the 2006 absentee numbers.” Fitzgerald said. He also noted that campaigns are ramping up their efforts over the past two week on getting request cards from his office. Under Iowa Law, voters must declare a political party to be able to participate and vote in the Primary Election. Below is a list of absentee ballot requests and ballots returned by contested State House Race (as of May 20, 2008): Contest (Candidates) - Party Countywide Democrat Countywide Republican

Requested 1,915 144

Returned 965 48

State Rep. District 42 (Ballard, Huser) - Democrat

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State Rep. District 59 (Matel, Sullivan) – Democrat (Hagenow, Murphy) – Republican

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State Rep. District 62 (Sanger, Walters) – Republican

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State Rep. District 65 (Ford, Hoffman, Reedy) - Democrat

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State Rep. District 69 (Helland, Lorenzen) – Republican

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State Rep. District 69 (Kosester, Wright) – Republican

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Obama Returns To Thank Iowa By MIKE GLOVER Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Barack Obama declared himself ``within reach'' of the Democratic nomination and celebrated in the state where his win in the opening contest of the presidential primary season helped reshape the race. Speaking to some 6,000 supporters Tuesday night at an outdoor rally with the Iowa Statehouse as a backdrop, the Illinois senator pointed to a campaign where few gave him much of chance of winning when he started the journey a year and a half ago. He is now the likely nominee. ``Tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America,'' he said. Obama split of pair of primaries Tuesday with Hillary Rodham Clinton. The former first lady bested him in Kentucky while he defeated her in Oregon, winning a majority of the delegates elected in all 56 primaries and caucuses combined. Obama paid tribute to Clinton in his remarks, but left little doubt that he has put the lengthy and hard-fought contest against her behind him. ``The road here has been long and that is partly because we've traveled it with one of the most formidable candidates to ever run for the office,'' he said, speaking of the senator from New York and congratulating her on her Kentucky win. Obama celebrated in Iowa instead of in one of the states that held a primary Tuesday as a way of ``coming full circle'' and launching the general election campaign in a place that is likely to be a political battleground come November. When he began the campaign, Obama was not as well known as Clinton, who was considered the likely Democratic presidential nominee at the outset. He chose to make a stand in Iowa, a Black man from the urban streets of Chicago stumping for votes across a snowy, rural state with a tiny minority population. But he combined an impressive field organization with eyepopping fundraising and relentless campaigning to score a solid win in the caucuses last January, while Clinton was left shocked by a third-place finish behind former Sen. John Edwards. Not only did Obama win, but the momentum his campaign generated was credited with a turnout of 240,000 that shattered all records, and has bolstered Democratic chances in November. Clinton rallied days later to win the New Hampshire primary and regain some momentum. But after battling Clinton to draw in more than 20 contests on Feb. 5, Super Tuesday, Obama put together 11 consecutive primary and caucus victories that put him ahead of Clinton in the race for the delegates needed to win the nomination. ``The same question that first led us to Iowa 15 months ago is the one that has brought us back here tonight,'' Obama said. ``The question of whether this country, at this moment, will keep doing what we've been doing for four more years or whether we will take that different path. ``It is more of the same versus change,'' he said. Obama warned of a tough campaign ahead against the Republicans and Arizona Sen. John McCain, their expected presidential nominee. ``They will play on our fears and our doubts and our divisions to distract us from what matters to you,'' Obama said. ``Well, they can take the low road if they want, but it will not lead this country to a better place. And it will not work in this election. It won't work because you won't let it.'' He sought unity within the Democratic Party, and with Clinton's supporters, as he looked to the fall. ``No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and your daughters will come of age, and for that we are grateful to her,'' Obama said. ``Some may see the millions and millions of votes cast for each of us as evidence our parity is divided, but I see it as proof that we have never been more energized and united in our desire to take this country in a new direction.'' He included a fair amount of nostalgia in his remarks, too. ``In the darkest days of the campaign, when we were dismissed by all the polls and pundits, I would come to Iowa and see that there was something happening here that the world did not yet understand,'' Obama said. (Photos by Paul Smith)

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Excerpts Of Obama's Speech In Iowa By The Associated Press Excerpts of Barack Obama's prepared remarks on Tuesday in Des Moines, Iowa, before the polls closed in Oregon's Democratic presidential primary, as provided by his campaign: Many of you have been disappointed by politics and politicians more times than you can count. You've seen promises broken and good ideas drown in the sea of influence, and point-scoring, and petty bickering that has consumed Washington. And you've been told over and over and over again to be cynical, and doubtful, and even fearful about the possibility that things can ever be different. And yet, in spite of all the doubt and disappointment - or perhaps because of it - you came out on a cold winter's night in numbers that this country has never seen, and you stood for change. And because you did, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Fifteen months ago, in the depths of winter, it was in this great state where we took the first steps of an unlikely journey to change America. The skeptics predicted we wouldn't get very far. The cynics dismissed us as a lot of hype and a little too much hope. And by the fall, the pundits in Washington had all but counted us out. But the people of Iowa had a different idea. From the very beginning, you knew that this journey wasn't about me or any of the other candidates in this race. It's about whether this country - at this defining moment - will continue down the same road that has failed us for so long, or whether we will seize this opportunity to take a different path - to forge a different future for the country we love. The road here has been long, and that is partly because we've traveled it with one of the most formidable candidates to ever run for this office. In her 35 years of public service, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has never given up on her fight for the American people, and tonight I congratulate her on her victory in Kentucky. We have had our disagreements during this campaign, but we all admire her courage, her commitment and her perseverance. No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and yours will come of age. Some may see the millions upon millions of votes cast for each of us as evidence that our party is divided, but I see it as proof that we have never been more energized and united in our desire to take this country in a new direction. More than anything, we need this unity and this energy in the months to come, because while our primary has been long and hard-fought, the hardest and most important part of our journey still lies ahead. We face an opponent, John McCain, who arrived in Washington nearly three decades ago as a Vietnam War hero, and earned an admirable reputation for straight talk and occasional independence from his party. But this year's Republican primary was a contest to see which candidate could out-Bush the other, and that is the contest John McCain won. The same question that first led us to Iowa fifteen months ago is the one that has brought us back here tonight; it is the one we will debate from Washington to Florida, from New Hampshire to New Mexico - the question of whether this country, at this moment, will keep doing what we've been doing for four more years, or whether we will take that different path. It is more of the same versus change. It is the past versus the future. It has been asked and answered by generations before

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us, and now it is our turn to choose. We will face our share of difficult and uncertain days in the journey ahead. The other side knows they have embraced yesterday's policies and so they will also embrace yesterday's tactics to try and change the subject. They will play on our fears and our doubts and our divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future. Well they can take the low road if they want, but it will not lead this country to a better place. And it will not work in this election. It won't work because you won't let it. Not this time. Not this year. My faith in the decency, and honesty, and generosity of the American people is not based on false hope or blind optimism, but on what I have lived and what I have seen in this very state. For in the darkest days of this campaign, when we were dismissed by all the polls and all the pundits, I would come to Iowa and see that there was something happening here that the world did not yet understand. It's what led high school and college students to give up their vacations to stuff envelopes and knock on doors, and why grandparents have spent all their afternoons making phone calls to perfect strangers. It's what led men and women who can barely pay the bills to dig into their savings and write $5 checks and $10 checks, and why young people from all over this country have left their friends and their families for a job that offers little pay and less sleep. Change is coming to America.

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African-American Portraits Displayed At Old U.S. Mint NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Imagine walking into a room where George Washington Carver is fiddling with test tubes in his laboratory, Jersey Joe Wolcott is delivering a mighty punch to Rocky Marciano's jaw and Gregory Hines is tap-dancing barefoot. The room is at the Old U.S. Mint, where the Louisiana State Museum has mounted an exhibit of 100 photographic portraits from African-American history. ``Let Your Motto Be Resistance'' - organized by the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and taken from their archives - represents the drama and joy, adversity and achievement that are all part of the black experience in America. Set in a historic building with spots of rust, peeling paint and spidery cracks, the faces in the exhibit illuminate the room and invite rumination and regard. ``These are great photographs of great people,'' says Steven Maklansky, director of curatorial services at the museum. ``They show the contributions of African-Americans to our shared history and culture.'' Along with Carver and Wolcott and Hines, there are 97 other portraits, dating from Frederick Douglass in 1856 to Wynton Marsalis in 2004, that line the rich and softly lit brown walls. There is James Baldwin looking prayerful, Ella Fitzgerald belting out a song, Muhammad Ali jumping rope, Angela Davis shouting into a microphone, Sidney Bechet wailing on his soprano sax, Dorothy Dandridge being glamorous and Amiri Baraka staring into the camera. There are two pictures of Martin Luther King. In the first, he is shown young and handsome with his family. In the second, he is also with his family, but he is in his casket, while his 5-year-old daughter, Berniece, who has just caught sight of him, stands gawking in amazement, with her mouth open and her eyes wide.

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Some of the most sumptuous photographs in the exhibit are of athletes. ``It's always interesting to see a static image of an athlete,'' Maklansky says, ``and to try to see within the photograph some evidence of the power and grace contained within their extraordinary bodies.'' Willie Mays, for instance, is shown at batting practice, getting out of the way of an inside pitch. ``There's a quality of ballet to his movement,'' Maklansky says. Track-and-field star Jesse Owens is shown in a starting position at the notorious 1936 Olympics, where he bested every runner in attendance and busted Nazi Fuhrer Adolph Hitler's claim for the superiority of the Aryan race. It is one of the iconic images of Owens. But just as remarkable as the portrait of his tense and springy body is the label that reveals the name of the photographer: Lei Riefenstahl. ``What are we to make of this photograph by the infamous Nazi propagandist who worked for Adolf Hitler,'' says Maklanaksy. ``Of course, the cruelest irony is that Owens returned to an America that was still segregated.'' A portrait of Jackie Joyner-Kersee shows her torso from the rear, revealing the sculptural muscles that ripple across her back. On the other side of the room is another rippled back - this one belonging to Gordon, a slave, whose skin had been flayed by whipping. Blind Tom, subject of another well-known slave portrait, is nettlesome in so many ways. The slave was a musical prodigy whose owner took him on a concert tour to raise money for the Confederate cause, which is irony enough in itself.

And then there is the additional irony of seeing the face of someone who can't see it himself. At some point along the way in the evolution of photography, the person behind the camera took on some importance, along with the person in front of the camera. ``So we see photographs not just of someone but by someone,'' Maklansky says. Some of those someones were celebrated African-American photographers, such as Prentice H. Polk, Addison Scurlock, Anthony Barboza and Arthur Bedou, a New Orleanian who had a studio in the city from about 1900 to 1960 and who shot the portrait of Booker T. Washington in the exhibit. ``Many New Orleanians, particularly African-Americans, could look at the wedding portraits or graduation photos that line their hallways or are cherished in their albums, and they might see Bedou's name on the bottom,'' says Maklansky. ``Like James VanDerZee, the famous Harlem Renaissance photographer, Bedou was documenting his own culture. He was a man of New Orleans photographing the people of New Orleans.'' Gordon Parks, the renowned and recently deceased photographer who himself appears in a portrait at the Old Mint, once wrote about the power of the portrait in a way that serves as a summation of the exhibit: ``Regardless of the medium used to facilitate it,'' he wrote, ``portraiture is the pictorial representation of an individual and it can be challenging, interesting and historically significant - capable of embracing an era and the people who exist within it.'' The portraits will remain on display through June 1.

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Wichitan Among Blacks Resettling In Ghana WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Shukura Sentwali is going home - to Ghana, West Africa. Sentwali, a Wichitan and longtime community activist, said she's moving to Africa next year because two Ghanaian chiefs are offering free land to descendants of slaves. The gesture means to atone for Ghana's participation in the African slave trade, but the land holds deeper meaning for Sentwali because it provides her a way to fulfill a lifelong mission to improve life for black people. In Wichita, she coordinated the black infant mortality program. She advocated for neighborhood schools over busing for integration. She taught black children in community recreation centers about their history. But lately, Sentwali said she has wondered what she accomplished in the past 30 years. She now concludes that the wrongs against African-Americans can't be corrected because the nation won't fully acknowledge them - even as a black man moves closer than ever before to the White House. So she's heading home. She acquired her land in 2006 after attending a conference in Philadelphia presented by Fihankra International, which is overseeing the development. ``We shouldn't waste any more time, energy or resources trying to convince the United States government or white people of what is wrong, and what has been wrong,'' she said, her voice in staccato. ``We need to use all of our energy and resources on building our own economic, political and social base.'' The 52-year-old said she'll miss her friends and family in the U.S. Some may join her later. She plans a return trip to Ghana later this year to see the progress

on her three-bedroom, 1,901-square-foot home. The plan for the house, along with the title to the property, rests in a folder overflowing with other papers about Ghana. Her annual site fees - similar to property taxes - cost about $750. Her site rests in an area called Ye Fa Ogyamu, which means ``We have passed through the fire.'' It's nestled among scores of trees, the Volta Lake and steep mountains. Temperatures are tropical, and Sentwali said the people are welcoming. They're almost relieved to find a black person who considers herself ``an African born in America,'' she said. ``I'm just one of those Africans who has a deep connection. Even before stepping foot on the continent, I wanted to go home, to Africa,'' she said. Nana Theresa Simmons, a Fihankra International board member based in Michigan, shares Sentwali's enthusiasm for the project, which has been in the works for more than a decade. ``We have to put in lights and water,'' she said. ``But we're pulling forward.'' Bomani Chekadino, a longtime friend of Sentwali, said he is also considering moving to Ghana. ``Why wouldn't a person want to have a foothold from where they are from?'' he said. ``Why wouldn't a person want to know their identification in history without being told; they could see it firsthand for little of nothing.'' Chekadino said he knows there are some black people who will ridicule the idea. ``And they should because it's not for them,'' he said. ``They need to be right here where they love it.'' Sentwali grew up among 1960s activists - members of the Black United Front, the Northeast Area Patrol, the Kansas-City based Black Panther Party and, in the 1970s, the African People's Socialist

Party. Those activists imparted to her the beauty of blackness, called her ``African,'' and affectionately discussed Africa as ``the motherland.'' Sentwali doesn't consider those groups radical, especially since she boarded one of the first school buses across town in the 1970s to integrate Hadley Middle School. Sentwali said she and her neighborhood friends were taunted just for being black. She hungrily read books that challenged the inferiority of Africans. She identified with the writings and lives of civil rights activists Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey. She homed in on Garvey, who pushed for repatriation and independence in Africa. Through those books and through these people, she developed a strong black identity - an identity that allows her to evaluate the experiences of black Americans against the Declaration of Independence's guarantee of ``life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness''. Those experiences include 200-plus years of free labor by African slaves. The 35 blocks of Tulsa's ``Black Wall Street'' being burned down in 1921. The federal government wiretapping and undermining black political leaders of the 1960s and 1970s through the Counter Intelligence Program, also called Cointel Pro. And she points to how some white people are angry or afraid at the thought of someone other than a white man running the country. Exit polls in several states' 2008 primaries showed that the majority of voters who considered race a factor in their vote supported a white candidate. ``The attack against African people has been comprehensive,'' Sentwali said. ``It has been physical, emotional and psychological.''

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largely mirrors those numbers - about 3.6 percent are black, with deacons and elders following similar patterns. Union-PSCE's roughly 365 students included about 30 blacks in 2006, the most recent year data was available. Blount will try to increase that number by crafting a strategic plan examining, among other things, the cultural sensitivity of school curriculum. He's also boosting recruitment. In June, Union-PSCE will send recruiters to the Hampton University Ministers' Conference, an influential gathering of current and future black clergy that last year drew Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. ``We've already started to try to be more visible, myself and others, in undergraduate institutions and churches,'' Blount said. The school's shifting focus comes as PCUSA struggles to plug leaking membership. The denomination has lost about 13.8 percent of its membership in the last decade. Black membership has hovered around 3 percent between 1999, when the church began keeping its most comprehensive racial statistics, and 2006, the most recent year for which such data has been compiled. Small populations of other minority groups also have remained steady - not the best news for a denomination with a goal of roughly 20 percent minority membership by 2010. Experts say traditionally white mainline Protestant groups are struggling with empty pews, in part, due to an inability to remain relevant among increasingly diverse communities. Mainline denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have responded with gospel-infused church services

featuring the type of freewheeling praise many blacks enjoy. Union-PSCE professor Katie Cannon said drawing more black pastors, valued among minority churchgoers for their cultural bonds, is the key. A seventh-generation Presbyterian, Cannon is one of a number of graying black theologians in the denomination concerned they won't be replaced. The number of black ministerial candidates in the PCUSA has varied over the past nine years, peaking at 84 in 2000. The numbers have declined the last three years, with 64 Black candidates in 2008. To reverse that trend, Cannon responded this month by inviting hundreds of theologians to Richmond to identify and cultivate ministers to serve the black Presbyterian community. The conference was the first in a four-year series. ``Our numbers are dwindling, our churches are getting smaller. We have so many pulpits that are vacant,'' Cannon said. ``We have more churches than we have people to lead those churches.'' But PCUSA officials face tough competition from evangelical churches and denominations, said Dave Travis, who tracks church growth trends with Dallas-based Leadership Network, which promotes innovation in churches. Travis said evangelicalism's typically less rigorous path to becoming a pastor appeals to minorities who can't afford the years of expensive seminary training mainline churches require for ordination. ``The trailblazers and mentors that have risen to prominence came through the entrepreneurial side of denominations, meaning the evangelicals,'' he said.

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress...Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives..." Frederick Douglass, 1857

Forum Focuses On Illegal Immigration Immigration in Iowa will be the topic of a Thursday, June 5 forum at the DMACC Urban Campus in Des Moines featuring civic, business and community leaders. Confirmed panelists include: Alicia Claypool of the Iowa Immigration Education Coalition; David Roederer, executive director of the Iowa Chamber Alliance (representing 16 chambers of commerce in Iowa); James Benzoni, a Des Moines attorney specializing in immigration law and an adjunct faculty member of the Drake Law School in Des Moines; and state Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, DAmes. The program, sponsored by IowaPolitics.com, DMACC and Mediacom, will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 5 in Room 124 at the DMACC Urban campus at 1100 7th St. in Des Moines. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required as lunches will be provided to the first 50 people who sign up to attend. The program is an extension of the Drake UniversityIowaPolitics.com “Cookies & Conversation” series, which provides a forum where major candidates, elected officials, and other newsmakers can communicate directly with interested citizens, business leaders, students, faculty and staff. The series, launched prior to the 2008 Iowa caucuses, also helps focus attention on major issues. IowaPolitics.com DSM Bureau Chief Chris Dorsey will moderate the program, and questions will be accepted from audience members. The panel discussion will also be televised to a statewide audience on the Mediacom Connections Channel and will be available for On Demand viewing from Mediacom on Channel 1. For reservations call 515.226.8774 or e-mail Julie Rutz at [email protected]. Doors at DMACC Urban Campus will open at 10:30 a.m. Free parking will be available at the DMACC Urban Campus. IowaPolitics.com is an independent, non-partisan news operation offering a free Web site at www.IowaPolitics.com and paid subscriber products.

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Our Purpose Helping ALL people find and live their lives for Christ, bridging ethnic, cultural and denominational lines.

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Sundays Worship at 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Youth Elevate 9:30 a.m. Real Life – Ministry for Singles 18-29 Each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Transportation to Sunday worship services at 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.

Wednesdays Bible Study: 7:00 p.m. SpiritLife 7:00 p.m. One Youth 7:00 p.m.

Saturdays Worship at 5:00 p.m. Merge – Ministry for Singles over 30 2nd Saturday of each month 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Radio Ministry Fri. 11:30 a.m. & Sun. 7:30 a.m. on Praise 940 AM Website: www.cornerstonefamilychurch.org Kids for Christ Summer Camp—July 21-25, 2008 Kids grades 2-6 spend 5 days, July 21-25 at the YMCA camp in Boone, IA canoeing, horse riding, wall climbing and much more. For more information pick up a registration pack at the Information Center or in the Dome. Fundraiser’s available. IYC Summer Camp—June 27-July 1 This year’s camp dates are June 27-July 1st.

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Church Listings & Weekly Schedules Burns United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Curtis DeVance, JD, MDiv, Pastor 811 Crocker Street Des Moines, IA 50309 Phone: Church 515-244-5883 Church Schedule: Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Corinthian Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Lee Zachary Maxey, Pastor 814 School Street Des Moines, IA 50309-1207 Phone: 515-243-4073 Church Business Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Transportation to Sunday School and Morning Worship Service Verna Smith: 515-243-8470 “We are members of the body of Christ, Loving and living, giving and growing, teaching and learning, remaining faithful while on earth and looking forward to our Savior’s second coming” Church Schedule: Sundays - Worship at 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Sundays - Christian Education at 9:15 a.m. Mondays - Boy Scouts & Cub Scouts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays - Family Night Ministry for all ages Wednesdays -Prayer Meeting at 6:15pm Wednesdays -Bible Study at 7:00pm Saturdays - Knitting Class at 12:00 p.m. Saturdays - Men’s Fellowship and Bible Study 10:00am-12:00pm Esther Circle Mission Society - 1st & 3rd Tues. of Every Month 1:00 p.m. Busy Bees Mission Society - 2nd & 4th Sat. of Every Month 10:00 a.m. Health Clinic - Third Tuesday of Every Month 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. King of Kings Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Irvin Lewis, Sr., Pastor 619 S.E. 15th Street Des Moines, IA 50317-7611 Phone: 515-282-3425 Transportation to Sunday School and Morning Worship Service Bro. White: 515-244-1741 Mission: Our purpose is to bring Christians and non-Christians together in a Christian community in order to become Disciples for Christ. Mission Statement: To continue spreading the Gospel as we nourish others with God’s truth and to exemplify God’s truth at work in their lives. Church Schedule: Sundays - Worship at 11:00 a.m. Sundays - Christian Education at 9:45 a.m. Wednesdays - Prayer Service & Bible Study at 6:00 p.m. Tape Ministry: Audio Tapes of Services cost $4 Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Keith A. Ratliff, Sr., Pastor 1552 Maple Street Des Moines, IA 50316 Phone: 515-262-1931 Transportation to Sunday School and Morning Worship Service is available. Church Schedule: Sundays - Worship at 10:45 a.m. Sundays - Christian Education at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays - Prayer Meeting & Bible Study at 7:00 p.m. Health Clinic - 2nd Thursday of Every Month Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church Rev. Marlon T. Perkins, Sr., Pastor 1639 Garfield Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50316 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 258 Des Moines, Iowa 50301 Phone: 515-262-3802 Email: [email protected]

Church Schedule: Sabbath (Saturday) Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Sabbath School at 9:30 a.m. “Showers of Blessing” Fellowship & Prayer Service 15 9:00 a.m. (Saturday) Wednesday Prayer Service at 6:30 p.m. St. Paul A.M.E. Rev. Frederick K. Gaddy, Pastor St. Paul A.M.E Church 1201 Day Street Des Moines, Iowa 50314 Ministry Days & Times Sundays 8:30 a.m. Sunday School Praise & Worship New Membership Class Training or Minister/Evangelist Sunday 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship Children’s Church Monday 6:00 p.m. Praise Dance rehearsal Praise Team rehearsal Tuesday Bible Study 12:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting 6:00 p.m. Aerobics & Tae-Bo 6:00 p.m. Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Women’s Ministry 5:30 p.m. Youth Choir Rehearsal 6:00 p.m. Thursday Aerobics 6:00 p.m. Unity Choir Rehearsal 6:00 p.m. Saturday Men’s Ministry 1st & 3 rd Saturdays or each month at 8:00 a.m. Traditional Service 4:00 p.m. For information please call 515-288-4419 Union Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Henry Isaiah Thomas, Pastor E. University & McCormick Street Des Moines, IA 50316 Phone: 515-262-1785 Transportation to Sunday School and Morning Worship Service Bro. Donnie Williams: 244-4853 or Bro. Larry Welch: 771-4441 Mission Statement: Our mission is to win the lost, built the believer and equip the worker so as to make disciples who can make disciples who can make disciples. Church Schedule: Sundays - Worship at 8:00 a.m. & at 10:40 a.m. Sundays - Christian Education at 9:30 a.m. Tues. & Wed. - Reading Program at 7:00 p.m. Wednesdays - Mid-Day Prayer Meeting at 12:00 p.m. and Prayer Meeting & Bible Study at 7:00 p.m. J.A.M. (Jesus and Me) Youth Service 1st & 3rd Sunday 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ooo

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

...how are they to hear without a preacher?

Romans 10:14

Burns United Methodist Church Address: 811 Crocker Street • DSM, IA 50309 Phone: Church 515-244-5883 Pastor: Pastor: Rev. Curtis DeVance, JD, MDiv Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Address: 814 School Street • DSM, IA 50309 Phone: 515-243-4073 Pastor: Rev. Dr. Lee Zachary Maxey Sunday Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:15 a.m. Wednesdays -Prayer Meeting at 6:15pm Wednesdays -Bible Study at 7:00pm Website: www.corinthianbaptistdsm.org New Friendship Church of God In Christ Address: 1317 Forest Avenue • DSM, IA 50314 Phone: 515-243-7097 Pastor: Rev. R.L. Daye Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday: Bible Study at 7:30 p.m. Thursday: Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. Thursday: Pastoral Teaching at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study Led By Pastor: 7:00 p.m. King of Kings Missionary Baptist Church Address: 619 S.E. 15th Street • DSM, IA Phone: 515-282-3425 Pastor: Rev. Irvin Lewis, Sr. Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Wednesday: Prayer and Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church Address: 1552 E. Maple Street • DSM, IA 50316 Phone: 515-262-1931 Pastor: Rev. Keith A. Ratliff, Sr. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m. Mount Hebron Missionary Baptist Church Address: 1338-9th Street • DSM, IA 50314 Phone: 515-280-9163 Pastor: Rev. Bobby Young Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Philadelphia SDA Church Address: 1639 Garfield Avenue • DSM, IA 50316 Phone: 515-262-7467 Pastor: Rev. Marlon T. Perkins, Sr. Sabbath (Saturday) Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sabbath (Saturday) Church School: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting Service: 6:30 p.m. Sunday Radio Ministry: 9:00 a.m., Praise 940 AM Email Address: [email protected] St. Paul A.M.E. Church Address: 1201 Day Street • DSM, IA Phone: 515-288-4419 Pastor: Rev. Frederick K. Gaddy Sunday Morning Worship: 10:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m. Sunday Radio Ministry: 9:30 a.m., Praise 940 AM Email: [email protected] Union Missionary Baptist Church Address: E.Univ. & McCormick • DSM, IA 50316 Phone: 262-1785 Pastor: Rev. Dr. Henry I. Thomas Sunday Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m., 10:40 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday: Prayer and Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.

...how shall they preach, except they be sent?

Romans 10:15

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Group Music Lessons Offered! County Receives Funds For Music lessons: $2 per one-hour group lesson! Just find nine others to learn with you or bring any size group and the total cost for all of you will be $20 per hour. If you have no one to join you taking lessons call, we may have a group looking for others to join them. Instruments are extra but we don’t require you to buy from us. Any instrument, any age, any talent level. Learn gospel, popular, folk, jug band or ethnic music. Call for guidelines on how to make this work best. Non-English speakers welcome if you bring an interpreter. Public performance opportunities.

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Breast Cancer Early Detection Polk County Health Department was awarded two grants for the early detection of Breast Cancer. The Health Department will receive $171,950 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation and $25,000 from the Calendar Gals. “With these additional funds, we will be able to provide our services to an increasing number of women at-risk for breast cancer, said Terri Henkels, Polk County Health Department Director. The Iowa Department of Public health provides $120,855 to the Polk County Health Department for the “Care for Yourself” program. Through this program Polk County Health Department can arrange for clinical breast exams, mammograms, pap tests, pelvic exams and limited diagnostic tests for eligible women and low or no cost. “Three of the most important ways for a woman to take care of her health are to: do a monthly self breast exam; have a regular pap

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test, pelvic exam and breast exam and an annual mammogram (if age 40 or older),” said Ms. Henkels The Des Moines affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure raises funds to support the eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening disease through research, education, screening and treatment. The Calendar Gals are a group of 11 women in their 60’s and 70’s who get together to play cards and discovered that two of them and one member’s son were breast cancer survivors. They produced the “Posed for the Cure” calendar to raise money to raise local breast cancer early detection programs. “The Komen funds and the gift from the Calendar Gals will allow us to provide services to an additional 850 men and women. It will also allow us to serve younger women,” said Ms. Henkels. For more information call Polk County Health Department (515-286-2095).