Flat Rock A.M.E. will have Youth Summit Oct. 26-28

Flat Rock

A.M.E. will have Youth Summit Oct. 26-28

Flat Rock A.M.E.

Church in Fayetteville is planning a youth-oriented weekend Oct. 26-28,

with special speakers and music geared specifically toward today's youth

and young adults. Youth choirs from all over the greater Atlanta area

are scheduled to perform.

Events begin

Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. with a "Pep Rally for Jesus."

Special guests include ministers Paula Edwards and David Rocker and the

Forest Chapel Praise Team.

Saturday from

10 a.m.-1 p.m., youth workshops and "rap" sessions will be featured,

with discussions about current issues and problems. Special guest panelists

are scheduled to appear.

Saturday at

7 p.m. the ICG Choir Music and Praise Anniversary Concert gets underway

with a youth "explosion" of gospel music. Youth choirs from

all over Atlanta will perform and entertain.

At 11 a.m.

Sunday morning, the event will continue with a Youth Worship Celebration.

Refreshments will be served throughout the event.

Guest minister

Paula Edwards. Friday's speaker, is a native New Yorker who now lives

in Atlanta. She is founder of Faith Generation, Inc., an urban youth development

agency based in metro Atlanta which focuses on youth and young adults.

She says her mission is to reach out to youth who are at risk and to troubled

teens. Edwards, herself, struggled with child abuse, drug abuse, and mental

abuse as a teen and now says if she can help guide or lead one in the

right direction, she has won a nation.

"My one

desire is that all youth know about the goodness of God and what He can

do in their life," Edwards says. "I have ministered to youth

from all walks of life: from the preacher's kid to the addict's kid; from

the pews in the church to the alleys in the ghetto. Seeing through the

eyes of today's youth is what I minister."

Accompanying

Edwards Friday will be David Rocker, founder of Fayetteville's own Gibralter

Ministries. Rocker is a former NFL football player who says he traded

in his "hoorays" for "hallelujahs." After retiring

from the NFL and taking off his helmet, he says he put on the "helmet

of salvation."

Another former

NFL player, Darnell Walker, is scheduled to speak. Walker, formerly with

the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers, is highly involved in

his church and volunteers monthly to work in the church nursery. He lives

in Lawrenceville.

All youth in

the community are invited. Flat Rock AME is at 148 Old Chapel Rd., just

off Ga. Hwy. 54 near Adams Farm. For more information, call 770-461-0283.

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