MEETING DATE CHANGED

The date for the Community Prayer Breakfast  planned for the Plaza Level of the Government Center has been CHANGED from Tuesday, April 18 to TUESDAY, MAY 16. (see DOWN THE ROAD below).

 

SATURDAY

Facilitator Training for One Columbus Dialogue Groups will take place on Saturday, April 15 at 10:00 AM at St. James AME Church, 1002 6^th Street. As the number of Dialogue Groups continues to grow, individuals who can commit for an hour each week for a minimum of 5 weeks to guide the discussion are welcome. The two hour session will cover the expectation of facilitators and participants, techniques for managing sessions and some basic standards expected of the participants. Leave your name and how to contact you at 706-315-0162 or call 706-888-2222.  Our website has notes and information about Dialogue Groups.

MONDAY

 

Cheryl Renee talks with Yasmin Gabriel, a hurricane Katrina evacuee who is documenting her experiences since that terrible event on the One Columbus segment of  WTVM’s Monday night Newsleader 9 news beginning at 6:00 PM on Monday, April 17.  

TUESDAY

April 18  Dialogue Group 0603 starts at 5:30 PM. This group will meet at St. James AME Church on the corner of 10^th Street and 6^th Avenue.  Look for the One Columbus sign. For details about Dialogue Groups, what they are and how they work, see our website www.onecolumbus.org. You should sign up at www.onecolumbus.org or leave your name and number at 706-315-0162 and “Join In The Conversation” with others here in the Valley.

DOWN THE ROAD

May 12 The Inaugural One Columbus Golf Tournament will be held at Callaway Gardens under the leadership of Diamond Sports Marketing. Our website offers several opportunities for participation - players, sponsors, volunteers and others.

May 16 beginning at 7:00 AM the One Columbus Community Prayer Breakfast will be held on the Plaza Level of the Government Center. These services are designed so that every denomination that wishes to participate is welcome. A representative from your house of worship would be welcome to attend.   

 

Just Keep on Knocking 454.4

In the summer of my junior year in college I took a job as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company. My mother had just lost a long battle with cancer and I wanted to earn enough money to have a photo of her turned into a painted portrait to give to my dad.

What I earned depended entirely on what I sold; there were no guarantees. Things went well at first, but then I hit a long bad streak. Hardly anyone was home and those who were just weren't buying. What's worse, some people were outright rude and literally slammed their doors in my face.

I was on the verge of quitting, but something my father used to tell me over and over stopped me: "Where there's a will, there's a way; where there's not, there's an alibi." I always resented this simplistic mantra, but suddenly I got it.

I realized that every meaningful opportunity in life would stay behind closed doors that would never open unless I knocked on them. Beneath this simple insight was another: If I couldn't muster the confidence and courage to knock on more doors despite the certainty of frustrating and unpleasant experiences, I would never make it.

I earned enough to buy the portrait and it now hangs next to another one of my dad in the lobby of the Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics, a nonprofit organization I founded in their honor.

I'm so glad my dad taught me to persist, and I'm grateful to have learned that an important part of character is to just keep knocking.

This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.

Thanks for your support of One Columbus and have a great weekend.

 

Ken Crooks, Executive Director
One Columbus
cell 706-888-2222
fax 706-221-1167
onecolumbus4@msn.com