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SECOND’S GAZETTE STAFF

Nadine O. Harris, MBA, Founder/Publisher

Ferrari Y. Green, Production and Design

Editors:
Sharon Durall, Jaylyn Harris, Kathy Jackson

Sherry Joiner, Operations and Distribution

Contributors
Peggy LaBon, Lois Gaston, Jessie Anderson,
Vanessa Jenkins, Vera Reeves, Betty Thomas,
Felicia Dickson, Keith D. Holmes, Judy
McCulloch, Donna Burke, LaTricia Brown,
Lula Boyer

Photographers:
Adele Davis, Jerel McLendon

Children’s Church Consultant:

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NEED PRAYER, call the church office and obtain the telephone number of the Deacon according to the
first letter of your last name (See below). If your name starts with ...

A
Call Robert & Jessie Anderson
B
Dennis & JoAnne Craig, or Betty Brown or Rodney Bough
C
A.G. Harrison, or Shirley Robinson, or Larry & Deborah Hayes
D
James Harvey or Venda Hawkins
E/F
Ron & Lavonne Husband or Adrienne Hurst
G
Minnie Mannings or Valeria Burwell or Ellen Clark
H
George & Tamara Lewis or Thelma Jones
I/J
Ellis & Thelma Johnson or Eva McLaurin or Walter McDonald
K/L/N/O/T
Terrence Williams or Lonnie & Josephine Stokes
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Chuck Williams or Melva Hill
P/Q
Carrie Walker or Nadine Harris R/S
Larry Willis or Oscar Woodard
U/V/W/X/Y/Z Robert Hamilton or Ron Demps or Michael Dickson
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February, 2022

I hope that your February is much better than January for this new year of 2022. As Christians, we’ve
learned that in all things, we give God thanks; good or bad, ups or downs, sick or well, we seek God’s
Glory in everything. Romans 8:28, “And we know all things work together for good to those who love
God. To those who are called according to His purpose.”
This month is Step 2 “We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.”
Most people (Christians) believe they are sane and have no need to ponder such a statement about being re-
stored to sanity. But if you know anyone who is not a Christian and have battled drugs, gambling, or any other
addiction, then you may want to consider that “sanity” is subject to interpretation. We can love the Lord with all
our heart and soul, yet still battle spiritually with addictions.
There are so many people who do not understand God as the Bible teaches. As a matter of fact, they want noth-
ing to do with God. By having many conversations with people from all walks of life, they are damaged by differ-
ent “religious dogma” from childhood, so they have spent years living without having God as part of their lives.
The purpose of the 2nd is to re-introduce an addict in recovery to this concept of a loving God, Who will be with
them as they progress in recovery and life. This step will help you focus on being honest, open-minded, and will-
ing to have God sustain you through the rest of life, as we know that He can and will if He is sought.
I’ve learned not to get offended when addicts in the meetings would say “HP” or “Higher Power”, because I real-
ized that this is a steppingstone for them, and God will meet them where they are. If someone is willing to open
the door to the possibility of God coming into their lives, who am I to judge how it happens.
My duty is to be an example of God’s Grace and Mercy; as He did for me, He is doing for countless others, as a
result of working this step. So don’t count out who we think may be insane, God is still working on them, and us
too!

In Christ,
Peggy LaBon
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Second Baptist Church

Second Baptist Church
Diakona Nadine Harris
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Donations can be dropped off at

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W hen President Eisenhower invited James Michener to a White House dinner, the best-
selling author replied: “Dear Mr. President, I received your invitation three days after I
had agreed to speak a few words at a dinner honoring the wonderful high school
teacher who taught me how to write. I know you will not miss me at your dinner, but she might at
hers.” Instead of taking offense, Eisenhower answered: “In his lifetime, a man lives under 15 or 16
presidents. But a really fine teacher comes into his life but rarely.”

Fine teachers are indeed worth cherishing, whether they hold classes in churches or public schools,
on Sundays or on weekdays. Let us honor and appreciate all teachers, all year long. Thank you for
preparing lessons with care, for going above and beyond to meet each student’s needs, and for
sparking curiosity about God and everything he created. You’re a blessing!

T he following compliments from the Song of Solomon may not go over well on Valentine’s
Day: “I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots” (1:9). “Your hair is like a
flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead” (4:1). “Your teeth are like a flock of shorn
ewes that have come up from the washing” (4:2). “Your neck is like the tower of David, built in
courses” (4:4). “[Your] eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set” (5:12).
“Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat” (7:2).

On the other hand, how about this one: “You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in
you” (4:7).
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Special dates

 African American History Month

 Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2022
 Presidents Day, February 21, 2022
 Transfiguration of Our Lord, February 27, 2022

I n It’s Okay Not to Be Okay, Christian author Sheila Walsh looks at the all-encompassing love
that Jesus expects of his followers. He commands us to “love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your
neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27, ESV).

But we can’t love that way without faith, Walsh writes. “I’m not living by faith if I have an answer to
everything. If I understand everything God does or doesn’t do, then all I need to love him with is my
mind. We’re called to love him with more.” That “more,” she explains, involves these paradoxes: “We
love with all our heart, even when it’s broken. We love with our soul, even when our humanity wres-
tles against our situation. We love with our strength, even when it’s almost gone. We love with our
mind, even when we don’t understand.”

Even if God’s purposes and plans don’t make sense here on earth, we can heed this advice from the
great preacher Charles Spurgeon: “When we cannot trace [God’s] hand, we must trust his heart.”

Great Escapes
The goal of authentic Christianity is a love [that] escapes from a closed circle of spiritual self-
indulgence, or even self-improvement, to become absorbed in the love of God and other people.

—Richard Lovelace
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Ingredients
 1 package (1 pound 2.25 ozs.) devil’s food cake mix with pudding

 1 1/3 cups water

 1/2 cup vegetable oil

 3 eggs

 1 tub (12 ozs. ) chocolate whipped frosting/1 tub (16 ozs.) chocolate
ready-to-spread frosting

Holiday Flavor Twist

For a truly special presentation to make cake hearts

flutter, garnish with fresh small strawberries or rasp-
berries and curls of white chocolate. Or for real choco-
late lovers, press miniature chocolate chips onto the
side of the frosted cake.
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Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, in-
herit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hun-
gered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and
ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison,
and ye came unto me. Matthew 25:34:-36
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As people, we are all consumers of health care at one time or another. And we know there
are medical conditions that are prevalent in the African American population. However, as
African Americans (both male and female) we are also inventors. Many modern conven-
iences and necessities are directly related to, or derivative of, the inventions of black inven-
tors: but did you know that we have also contributed to the scientific progress in health
care? From colonial times through today, Americans of African and Caribbean descent
have contributed to the advancement of medicine, physics, and industrialization. Let’s name
a few:

Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett born January 26, 1986 in Hurdle Mills, NC is a research fellow
and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). A viral immunologist by training, she used her expertise to propel novel vaccine de-
velopment for pandemic preparedness. In response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pan-
demic, the vaccine concept was designed by Corbett’s team and rapidly deployed to
industry partner, Moderna, Inc., for FDA approval clinical trial.

Dr. Keith L. Black born September 13, 1957 in Tuskegee, AL is a world-renowned neuro-
surgeon. Black is a neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain rumors and a prolific
campaigner for funding of cancer treatment. He is chairman of the neurosurgery department
and director of the Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
California.

Dr. Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson Sr. born September 18, 1951 in Detroit MI is an Af-
rican American author and retired neurosurgeon. He is the first surgeon to successfully
separate conjoined twins joined at the head.

Dr. Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019 Harlem Manhattan, NY) was an
American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was the inventor of
laser cataract surgery which a probe to treat the cataracts and she was the first African
American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.
George Edward Alcorn, Jr. born March 22, 1940 in Indianapolis IN. Alcorn an African
American physicist and inventor who invented a method of fabricating an imaging x-Ray
spectrometer.
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Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920 – March 26, 1982, Dallas TX) was an
American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors
used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers. His father, Walter B.
Boykin, was a carpenter, and later became a preacher. His mother, Sarah, was a
maid, who died of heart failure when Otis was a year old. This inspired him to help
improve the pacemaker.
Bessie Virginia Blount (November 24, 1914–December 30, 2009 Chesapeake VA) was
an American physical therapist, forensic scientist, and inventor. She studied nursing in
Newark, while there developing a passion in the field of physical therapy, a profession
not formalized and established until shortly after Blount’s birth. While working with in-
jured soldiers after World War II, she developed a device that allowed amputees to feed
themselves; it delivered one mouthful of food at a time to patients whenever they bit
down on a tube. Griffin later invented a receptacle that was a simpler and smaller ver-
sion of the same, designed to be worn around a patient's neck.
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975, Montgomery, AL) was an
American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of
medicinal drugs from plants. His work would lay the foundation for the steroid
drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids and birth control
pills.

Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916 Seattle WA) was an
African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most
effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940. She was the first woman and first
African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, and
was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.

So this month as we focus on Black History, remember African Americans are a

people who not only seek health care as a consumers, but we are also scientific
pioneers and major contributors to the health industry.

Live Life Healthy

Jessie M. Anderson, RN BSN

http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/black.html
http://www.black-inventor.com
 Resting Your Mind, Body and Soul
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest”
Exodus 23:12

News Flash, we just live a busy hurried life day-to-day. We’re constantly rushing from one thing to another in
our daily lives, work, church and giving the least amount of time to our families and our own self-care. We
are always on the go, just busy. Are you really getting things accomplished or just adding more to your plate?
Studies show that African Americans suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and have a
higher cancer rate. Wy? Because we’re too busy running around and not making self-care our number one
priority. Simple changes can make a difference. God instituted a reminder about stress and self-care in the
very beginning of creation. On the seventh day, God rested and so should we.

Buttafly Burke

The
Laughing
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