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We are actively engaged in efforts to mobilize the community on the Southside of Columbus, Ohio.
Ministries4Movement represents the partnership of Family Missionary Baptist Church, Men for the Movement, OSU research team, CeaseFire Columbus, National Center for Urban Solutions, The Academy for Urban Scholars, with members of the community. Together, we have developed a holistic approach to community transformation.
We seek long-term transformation by changing the norms and living conditions in partnership with community members. There are eight core components to our collaborative approach. If you would like more information about how we do what we do please contact Pastor Frederick V. LaMarr, Brother Cecil Ahad, or Dr. Deanna Wilkinson. We are actively seeking financial support to be able to fully staff our movement. If you would like to make a contribution please do.
We are actively engaged in efforts to mobilize the community within the boundaries of 22nd Street, Lockbourne, Whittier, and Livingston Avenue.
1/1/2013 http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/01/tragedy-strikes-more-than-once.html
12/23/12 http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/12/23/columbus-osu-expert-talks-ct-school-shooting.html
8/14/12 10TV coverage 8/14/12
6/13/12 http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/06/13/columbus-community-calling-for-ceasefire.html
5/2012 http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/may/17/ceasefire-columbus-pushing-forward-message-ar-1040259/
5/18/12 http://people.ehe.osu.edu/dwilkinson/2012/05/22/front-page-story-in-the-columbus-dispatch/
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Posted by Cecil Ahad on January 20, 2013 at 10:34pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Dr. King adopted one of the great 19th century philosophers, Henry David Thoreau essays on "Civil Disobedience" He argued the logic "that no man should cooperate with laws that he feels are unjust; that when a man truly feels that a law which society has made is wrong, then he should not obey that law, but that he must be willing to take the punishment society sets for breaking that law, and that when society do make unjust laws, then the best place for someone is jail." Where…
ContinuePosted by Cecil Ahad on January 16, 2013 at 11:34pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Dr. King searched, and studied in many areas for new ideas that were needed to wipe out racial injustice. he had concluded, "that the old ideas were not working; that fighting injustice with violence seemed to only increase injustice. Fighting injustice in the courts were slow, costly, difficult, and most of time, Impossible, especially in the South."
Posted by Cecil Ahad on January 15, 2013 at 4:13pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Did you know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta Ga., January 15, 1929 as Michael King, and that one of his greatest mentors, Mohandas Gandhi, whom and where Dr. King discovered from, the art and philosophy of using the power of "love" to oppose injustice; not the kind of love you would have for Mother, Child, Family, Sweetie etc, but the respectful love of another human being that God created that have the power to think, choose, and change things/themselves to make things…
ContinuePosted by Cecil Ahad on January 14, 2013 at 10:49pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
"Education should not merely train a person in the technique of doing a certain job. It should not just prepare him to enter a particular occupation either. Education should train people to think scientifically and logically. It should enable a person to be able to tell the true from the false; fact from fiction. A logical taught person would reject the theory that one race was superior to another." (Martin Luther King Jr. in 1948 as a graduating senior, writing about what Education…
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