Date With Destiny INC/Destiny Ministries Community Development Center
What We've Been Able to Do
Accomplishments as of June 03, 2024
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We don't really see these as our accomplishments. We see them as the accomplishments of those we've been able to assist in bettering their lives. We are so thankful that we are blessed to be blessings to others. We are humbled to be chosen for such a task as this. We will continue to work diligently to be a help to the communities that embrace our services, and the Lord sees fit to send us to. Your generous donations are much needed and greatly appreciated. The services we have provided have thus far been free of charge and we are praying that we will continue to be able to provide free services or services at a discounted rate. We are thankful for our partnership with Destiny Investments, Consulting, and Logistics and Destiny Ministries. These organizations provide the services we offer.
Congratulations to all those who have come our way and went out better than they came. The best is yet to come.
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Dr. Cynthia E. Hicks Johnson
See You At The Pole
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See You at the Pole™ is a global movement of prayer which is student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led. It revolves around students praying together on the fourth Wednesday in September, usually before school and usually at the school's flag pole. It involves student in elementary schools, middle/junior high schools, high schools, and colleges/universities across the globe. Adults often pray in support of the students on campus by gathering nearby, at their places of work or worship, or at city halls.
In 1990 when youth ministers in Texas first challenged young people to meet on a common day to launch their school year in prayer, one of the concerns what how to help those who wanted to pray together find each other. It was noted that virtually every school has a flagpole, and the flagpole provided an easy-to-identify place to gather. Also, one issue that the teenagers were praying about was the spiritual health of their country and their leaders, in obedience to 1 Timothy 2:1–2. Hence, the location and name of the event!
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Is See You at the Pole™ legal?
The answer to this question is a firm "Yes!" The right of students to gather and pray outside of instructional time—while at school—is clearly a Constitutionally protected form of free speech. This has been affirmed in regard to "Equal Access Clubs" by the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision inWestside Community Schools v. Mergens. And in 1995, President Bill Clinton directed then-Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, to prepare guidelines for what the government deemed "appropriate religious expression on school grounds." These guidelines were issued and upheld by the government several times since. In them, See You at the Pole™ is specifically named as legal, appropriate, and protected:
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"Students may also participate in before or after school events with religious content, such as "see you at the flag pole" gatherings, on the same terms as they may participate in other noncurriculum activities on school premises. School officials may neither discourage nor encourage participation in such an event."
Family and Friends Weekend Purpose
Families of any kind require compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience in order to live together. It is not an easy thing for people to get along with each other. Family and Friends Weekend is a time to remember, recognize and reaffirm the ties that have been key to the past, present, and future of our community. Friends and Family Weekend in our community is a day on which members of the community are encouraged to come together with as many friends and relatives as possible to. Friends and Family Weekend is celebrated in many ways. Day One of or Family and Friends day is dedicated to the youth and children. We want to see the entire family have fun together and fellowship with each other. We encourage former members of the community to come back and take part in this community event. We have free food and games and events that the entire family can take part in. Day One of our Family and Friends day normally falls on the same day as Homecoming for our local high school, Dooly County High School. We end the day’s events end well in advance of the Homecoming football game. Many graduates of both the Vienna Industrial High School and the Dooly County High School attend this game and represent their respective classes. We are working to include a community sporting event, such as former students versus current students, or old versus young basketball game for Day two of the event. Day three consists of the community coming together for a day of prayer at one of the churches in the community. We encourage everyone regardless of race or denomination to attend.
Family and Friends Day 2015
DATE WITH DESTINY INC.
TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER!!!