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DESTINY HOUSE CHRISTIAN CENTER NOVEMBER 2020

APOSTLE DR. PEPPER MARTIN, SENIOR PASTOR NEWSLETTER WE ARE A GOD-FOCUSED, PEOPLE-ORIENTED, WORD- BASED, DATA-DRIVEN CHURCH WITH A FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, CONGREGATION AND COMMUNITY

From the Apostle's Desk

Deuteronomy 6:3: Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it: that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

To increase means to make greater in size, amount, intensity, or degree. It is the process of growing. Though most say they want to grow, growth of any kind requires change. While change in most cases is good, the fear of change can feel so overwhelming that many are threatened by the challenges it brings.

Whether you run from it or embrace it, change is required to grow. Therefore, if you plan to experience increase, you must begin to accept change as its precursor. The more adaptable you become, the more likely you will experience increase.

To experience divine increase according to the scripture provided, the children of Israel had to leave the land they were familiar with and begin their journey to pursue their promise to which eventually ended successfully with them owning land that flowed with milk and honey.

Therefore, in this birthing season, I challenge you to shift your mindset to be postured for divine increase by agreeing with God’s mandate to adapt, obey and move according to His time and season so that you can experience a Kairos moment of divine increase that can only come from God.

Therefore, open your mouth and activate the power that lies within by proclaiming divine increase to be released in your life. By using your voice to command it to happen will allow you to experience God’s miracle working power allowing His promises to be manifested in your life in its fullest form, filling every void you ever felt and pushing you into divine overflow. So, don’t miss your opportunity to overflow; use your voice today!

Cordially Yours in Christ,

Apostle Dr. Pepper Martin

THIS MONTH’S THEME: CELEBRATE APOSTLE, DR. PEPPER MARTIN

Contextualized in Psalms 98:4: “Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise."

Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong. From the New York Times, Maya Salam, Editor https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/thanksgiving-myths-fact-check.html

Not to rain on your Thanksgiving Day parade, but the story of the first Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught it — the Pilgrims and Native Americans gathering together, the famous feast, the turkey — is not exactly accurate.

Thanksgiving facts and Thanksgiving myths have blended together for years like so much gravy and mashed potatoes, and separating them is just as complicated.

Blame school textbooks with details often so abridged, softened or out of context that they are ultimately made false; children’s books that simplify the story to its most pleasant version; or animated television specials like “The Mouse on the Mayflower,” which first aired in 1968, that not only misinformed a generation, but also enforced a slew of cringeworthy stereotypes. Figure 1“The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth,” from 1914, by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe. High school textbooks are particularly bad about stating absolutes because these materials “teach history” by giving students facts to memorize even when the details may be unclear, said James W. Loewen, a sociologist and the author of “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.”

“That mind-set pervades everything they talk about and certainly Thanksgiving,” he said. The timeline is relative.

The Mayflower did bring the Pilgrims to North America from Plymouth, England, in 1620, and they disembarked at what is now Plymouth, Mass., where they set up a colony. In 1621, they celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that was attended by members of the Wampanoag tribe. It’s from this that we derive Thanksgiving as we know it.

But it wasn’t until the 1830s that this event was called the first Thanksgiving by New Englanders who looked back and thought it resembled their version of the holiday, said Kate Sheehan, a spokeswoman for Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth.

The holiday wasn’t made official until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared it as a kind of thank you for the Civil War victories in Vicksburg, Miss., and Gettysburg, Pa. Figure 2 Members of Plymouth 400, a nonprofit that contends that the Thanksgiving story began in 1614 when Tisquantum, known as Squanto, and other native people were captured, taken to Europe and sold as Beyond that, claiming it was the “first Thanksgiving” slaves.Credit...Ed Nute isn’t quite right either as both Native American and European societies had been holding festivals to celebrate successful harvests for centuries, Mr. Loewen said.

A prevalent opposing viewpoint is that the first Thanksgiving stemmed from the massacre of Pequot people in 1637, a culmination

of the Pequot War. While it is true that a day of thanksgiving was noted in the Massachusetts Bay and the Plymouth colonies afterward, it is not accurate to say it was the basis for our modern Thanksgiving, Ms. Sheehan said.

Figure 3 Plymouth Rock in Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Plymouth, Mass. The rock, known as the “landing place of the Pilgrims,” was not mentioned in the Pilgrims’ original writings. Instead, it is a part of the region’s oral history.Credit...Erik Jacobs for The And Plymouth, Mr. Loewen noted, was already a village with clear fields and a spring when the Pilgrims found it. “A lovely place to settle,” he said. “Why was it available? Because every single native person who had been living there was a corpse.” Plagues had wiped them out.

It wasn’t just about religious freedom.

It’s been taught that the Pilgrims came because they were seeking religious freedom, but that’s not entirely true, Mr. Loewen said.

The Pilgrims had religious freedom in Holland, where they first arrived in the early 17th century. Like those who settled Jamestown, Va., in 1607, the Pilgrims came to North America to make money, Mr. Loewen said.

“They were also coming here in order to establish a religious theocracy, which they did,” he said. “That’s not exactly the same as coming here for religious freedom. It’s kind of coming here against religious freedom.”

Also, the Pilgrims never called themselves Pilgrims. They were separatists, Mr. Loewen said. The term Pilgrims didn’t surface until around 1880.

There’s no evidence that native people were invited.

Possibly the most common misconception is that the Pilgrims extended an invitation to the Native Americans for helping them reap the harvest. The truth of how they all ended up feasting together is unknown. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY DHCC COPYRIGHT @2020 DESTINY HOUSE CHRISTIAN CENTER NOVEMBER 2020

“The English-written record does not mention an invitation, and Wampanoag oral tradition does not seem to reach back to this event,” Ms. Sheehan said. But there are reasons the Wampanoag leader could have been there, she said, adding: “His people had been planting on the other side of the brook from the colony. Another possibility is that after his harvest was gathered, he was making diplomatic calls.”

It is true that the celebration was an exceptional cross-cultural moment, with food, games and prayer.

The deadly conflicts that came after, though, created an undercurrent that is glossed over, Mr. Loewen said. Still, “we might as well take shards of fairness and idealism and so on whenever we find them in our past and recognize that and give credit to them,” he said.

The role of Squanto is complicated.

Tisquantum, known as Squanto, did play a large role in helping the Pilgrims, as American children are taught. His people, the Patuxet, a band of the Wampanoag tribe, had lived on the site where the Pilgrims settled. When they arrived, he became a translator for them in diplomacy and trade with other native people, and showed them the most effective method for planting corn and the best locations to fish, Ms. Sheehan said.

That’s usually where the lesson ends, but that’s just a fraction of his story.

He was captured by the English in 1614 and later sold into slavery in Spain, Ms. Sheehan said. He spent several years in England, where he learned English. He returned to New England in 1619, only to find his entire Patuxet tribe dead from smallpox. He met the Pilgrims in March 1621.

There’s no evidence that turkey was served.

There was no mention of turkey being at the 1621 bounty, and there was no pie. Settlers lacked butter and wheat flour for a crust, and they had no oven for baking. What is known is that the Pilgrims harvested crops and that the Wampanoag brought five deer.

“There are primary source writings about wild turkey being abundant in the area that fall, yet they do not specifically mention if they were at the First Thanksgiving,” said Tom Begley, executive assistant at Plymouth Plantation.

Experts agree, though, that there was certainly some wild fowl — possibly goose, duck or turkey — served along with the venison brought by the native men, he said, as those are the only food items explicitly mentioned. “However, there is no direct evidence proving that turkey was in fact served,” he said.

Figure 4 It is unlikely that turkey was at the 1621 bounty, but other fowl, such as duck, may have The menu may have also included cornmeal, pumpkin, been.Credit...Melina Hammer for The New York Times succotash and cranberries. There were no sweet potatoes in North America at the time.

Contrary to popular depictions, there were about 90 native people in attendance, almost double the number of Pilgrims by some accounts.

Apostle Pepper Martin Senior Pastor, DHCC

A WORD ON INCREASE… by Dr. Pepper Martin

Increase is a word that has become a cliché in today’s church. Everybody wants increase. Everybody needs increase; however, not everyone experiences increase from a spiritual perspective. When I speak about increase, I am talking about divine increase according to kingdom principles.

Increase, in my opinion, is good growth granted by God. It is spiritual and released by the divine power of God onto His people who have consistently applied God’s principles to their lives in an effort to prepare themselves to receive what God intended for us to have as it was established in the Book of Genesis during creation.

Mankind was created to reside in Eden, a place of complete bliss and peace. We were given a mandate to take dominion and possess the land; however, at the entrance of sin, we breached our initial covenant with God, thus catapulting us into a new normal that was opposite God’s intentions for us. However, upon the shedding of the blood of Jesus, the redemptive properties of His blood returned us back to our spiritual position in God. In our Earthly vessel, we now have the opportunity to make a decision to accept Jesus as our personal Savior. When we do that, we are automatically restored to our rightful place changing potential power to kinetic power moving us on a path that will lead us to our divine destiny. The journey to destiny causes us to experience an array of encounters that provide us with an education in life, while simultaneously teaching us valuable spiritual lessons necessary to process us for purpose.

Kingdom minded people must be focused on fulfilling our kingdom purpose understanding that once it is fulfilled, we will experience a level of satisfaction that could never be experienced to the degree we could imagine without a kingdom mindset.

In summary, we are currently in a season for God’s increase to be experienced, but this type of experience is an example of a Kairos moment. To experience this, you must be postured, positioned and prepared. You are postured in prayer, positioned in praise and prepared in power. Why? Because divine increase is God’s currency released through the granting of His favor, consistent with His Will to be granted at the appointed time and season to bring forth fruit allowing us to take dominion, becoming a living example of Eden through the redemptive power of the blood of Jesus that empowers us to a manifested example of what kingdom people look like in this current society. God wants to release increase to His people to empower us to be a relevant example of His power bringing His kingdom down to Earth to fill voids caused by demonic agents to bring breaches between us and God.

CHILDREN OF GOD, GOD SAYS POSTURE IN PRAYER, POSITION IN PRAISE SO HE CAN EMPOWER US TO FULFILL OUR DIVINE PURPOSE THAT WAS CREATED TO SOLVE A PROBLEM AND YIELD DIVINE INCREASE (GOD’S CURRENCY) IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY!!! GET READY FOR YOUR INCREASE!!!

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NOVEMBER CELEBRATIONS • - - Happy Birthday and Happy•• Anniversary to all those celebrating during the Month of November!!

DHCC Birthdays: \ Shantell Sharpe - November 10 Jayson Smith November 13 Shameka Griffin November 17 William Varner November 20 Charles McDaniels November 30 • "

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