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THE CONDUCTOR ORR!! 1st Qtr. 2017 Official Publication of the Overground RR!!® BUSINESS DIRECTORYwww.overgroundrr.com Pages 13-15 THEThe Official CONDUCTORNewspaper of The Overground RR!!® VOLUME 11 No. 1 1st Qtr. 2017 The WORSHIP ABOVE ALL THINGS MINISTRY ORR CENTERS “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper Anointed Vision of Hope The Call and the and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” - III John 1:2 Antioch AME Church Ariel Bowen United Methodist Church The Ark of Salvation The B.J. Holland Institute of Ministry Believers’ Bible Christian Church Response Ben Hill Christian Church Ben Hill UMC Bethesda Cathedral of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. Beulah Missionary Baptist Church Big Bethel AME Angry? Scared? Confused? Don’t Be!! Big Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church Boatrock Baptist Church (On April 3, 1968 Dr. King Told Us What To Do) Butler Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Camy Arnett Ministries Calvary Baptist Church Calvary United Methodist Church Cascade United Methodist Church Chapel of Christian Love Christian Fellowship Baptist Church Clarkston First Baptist Church Columbia Drive United Methodist Church Community Church of God Covenant Christ Ministry Covenant Ministries DaySpring International Ministries, Inc. Dodd-Sterling UMC East Atlanta Church Ebenezer Baptist Church Elizabeth Baptist Church Emmaus Road Missionary Baptist Church The Enon Church Evangelistic New Life Worship Center Are we ready to listen now? Faith Walk Ministries, Inc. First AME Church First Congregational Church (King said support Black-owned businesses) First Corinth Missionary Baptist Church First Iconium Baptist Church (Listen to the video at http://marching2march.org/wp-content/uploads/MLK4ktaa.mp4) First Victory Baptist Church OvergroundRR!! pastors ask each and everyone of us to listen and have everyone you know to Friendship Community Church listen. Post it on your facebook page, e-mail it, text it, and tell everyone you can to listen. Then Grace Community Fellowship Church Greater Mount Carmel AME support the OvergroundRR!! in fulfilling Dr. King’s true dream of a truly free Black community. Greater Mountain Baptist Church Greater New Life Baptist Church Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church Find Black-owned businesses... Greenforest Community Baptist Church Headland Heights UMC Online at the new OvergroundRR.com & on pages 13-15) Highly Favored Ministries Hillside International Truth Center, Inc. he ORR pastors encourage us to After having gotten us off the back of and urgent mandate to us to become Holsey Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Hopewell MBC know our history. So, we must the bus, into the front doors of stores, more economically independent as a Impact! Doing Church Differently honor their lives and sacrifices restaurants and hotels, into jobs and people. International Christian Fellowship T Jackson Memorial Baptist Church by seizing the issues of our day similiar careers we could not previously have Journey of Faith Church to Harriett Tubman. hoped to have, Dr. King told us that Well, OvergroundRR!! pastors are The Kingdom of God Evangelistic the next leg of the freedom journey is reminding us of the necessity of Outreach Ministry Like Harriett Tubman, Dr. King did not remembering the life-changing words of Life Changing Ministries building our own economy. Life Line Church spend his life lost in history but he took Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoken Light of the World Christian Tabernacle on the issues of his time. (Listen to the video at on April 3, 1968 mere hours before he Lindsay Street Baptist Church Love Circle Truth Center http://marching2march.org/wp- would lose his life. On that fateful night, Love Life Christian Fellowship Church content/uploads/MLK4ktaa.mp4) Dr. King called for all of our people to The Lutheran Church of the Atonement practice a concept we now refer to as, Midway Missionary Church Dr. King’s final message to us was to Miracles, Miracles and More Miracles “Kitchen Table Affirmative Action.” The Mishpochah Congregation establish build and support our own speech that contained this profound call Mt. Calvary Baptist Church businesses. Few of us have ever heard for action is most famous for the contents Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist a word spoken of Dr. King’s very direct Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church Continued on page 3 Mt. Welcome Missionary Baptist Church Muhammed’s Mosque No. 15 New Beginnings Ministries New Fountain Worldwide Ministries Community Income Spending Comparison New Jerusalem Baptist Church New Jerusalem Worship Center International Ethnicity Population Amt Spent Bus. Revenues Percent of New Life Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C. (billions) (billions) Amount Omega Holiness Church Poplar Springs Baptist Church Blacks 39,472,041 $ 910 $ 136 15% Powerhouse of Deliverance Cathedral Providence Missionary Baptist Church Pure Praises Ministries Hispanics 48,232,635 $ 978 $ 350 36% Ray of Hope Christian Church Redemptive Life Christian Fellowship Church Restoration Tabernacle, Inc. Asians 14,506,692 $ 509 $ 506 99% Salem Bible Church Solomon Temple Missionary Baptist Church Whites 244,493,339 $ 9,125 $ 24,061 263% St James Missionary Baptist Church St. John Missionary Baptist Church St. Mark AME Church Source: The Selig Center of the University of Georgia 2008. This study is conducted every 10 years. St. Mark Lutheran Church www.overgroundrr.com St. Paul AME Church St. Philip AME Church ® St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church ORR!! COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION A • L • L • I • A • N • C • E • S The True Light Baptist Church Transform Lives Christian Church 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. • 100 Black Women of Atlanta • All Empowered Inc. • American Kidney Services • Americolor Opera Alliance Trinity Tabernacle Baptist Church Atlanta Be Someone • Atlanta Business League • Atlanta Citizen Review Board • Atlanta Crime Commission • Atlanta Urban League Turner Chapel AME Church Beverly Cunniningham Outreach Program • Carver College • City of Atlanta, Minority Business Opportunities • Cleveland Ave Roy L. Yancy, Sr. Public Victory Cathedral Church of God in Christ Library • Community Teen Coalition, Inc. • Concerned Black Clergy • FACAA • Fulton County Workforce Development • Georgia Coalition for the People’s West End Seventh-Day Adventist Agenda • Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition Greater Atlanta Economic Alliance • Greater Works, Inc. • Hammonds House Museum • Healing Arts A-Z Wheat Street Baptist Church Home Based Business • Chamber of Commerce House of Restoration, Inc. • Investment Atlanta, Inc. • MACEO’s Kids Foundation • Marquis Grissom Woods Memorial Baptist Church Word of Faith Love Center Baseball Association, Inc. • Mother Dillard’s Village of Hope, Inc. • NAACP Atlanta Branch • NAACP of Georgia • National Action Network • Sadie G. Mays Word of God Ministries Health & Rehabilitation Center • SCLC • Soul Food Museum • South Fulton Business Coalition • The Spirit of Sweet Auburn • Still Water Youth Sinfo-Nia World Covenant Christian Center of Metro Atl Inc. • The 5-Alarm Solutions • Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture • United Negro College Fund • WAIN.TV Zion Hill Baptist Church Wellcare of Georgia • Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc (WSCI) 1 1st Qtr. 2017 THE CONDUCTOR www.overgroundrr.com Official Publication of the Overground RR!!® Letter From the Chairman Transitioning from Obama to Trump: What does it mean for Black America? Aaron Turpeau ORR Chairman assistance. This direction and Obamas as a Black family gave real hope assistance must come from for change, plus some programs, staff the local, state and national appointments and symbolism. government leaders. Currently, I see no equalization plans The Trumps with only wealthy, white from a Trump administration. and private sector experience, do not The private sector, where he have a clue of what the problems are comes from, has the money, but or where to start. So, with this apparent has shown no signs favoring racist segment of his voter base, it will equalization, and when not be a rough transition for Black folks. encouraged by local leaders, no progress will be made in the BUT, we all have been shocked by Black Community for Black “THE DONALD” before and his Americans. administration may right this ship called same as above with no money America (which needs a shock). I Don’t Know! and an unequal playing Obama and all Presidents, for at least field. We cannot get the the past 50 years, realized the non- So again, I DON’T KNOW. • Slavery? No! Been there done that. equal without strong internal equalization of Americans and tried and external directions and to give direction for equalization. The • Jim Crow? No! Been there done that. • Separate but Equal? ® Maybe? With no government The ORR!! welcomes new members... intervention, this could be interesting if we started off Businesses Alliances equal. The problem is whites Arrington, Oduola-Owoo & Mason, PC Carver College have 90 - 99% of the money. Johnny M’s Pizza Bistro Hammonds House Museum • Integration? With no Leonardo’s Restaurant Still Water Youth Sinfo-Nia of Metro Atl Inc. government intervention, Rich Lawn Service, LLC Atlanta Crime Commission Sweet Auburn Seafood Restaurant The 5-Alarm Solutions Inside this issue... Thanks for getting aboard … The Call and Response ...................................... 1 Letter from the Chairman..................................... 2 OvergroundRR!!® Pulpit........................................ 3 Black America Since