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SLP Super Saturday Session Presentation 7.23.2011

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SUPER SATURDAY

Strategic Life Planning Session

SLP Working Session

• Spiritual

• Family

• Health & Wellness

• Financial

• Community Service

• Career Planning

Awareness: “A-ha Moment”

having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge


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Alignment: Agreement with God

• to be in or come into precise adjustment or correct relativecorrect relative position

• the proper positioning or state of adjustment of parts

Action: Response to God

• Behavior• Conduct• Conduct• Movement

SPIRITUAL


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Learned Helplessness

• A deeper sense of loss of things that are actually in your control

• Interpretation of events in predictable, inegative ways

– Personalized (I am a bad ___ )– Pervasive (Everything I do is bad)– Permanent (Nothing is going to

change)

But God, You Said …

• I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

• Yet in all things I am more than a gconqueror. (Romans 8:37)

• Greater is He who is in me than He who is in the world. (1 John 4:4)

Deep Fears

• Common tactic used by the enemy

• Distortion of realityyFalse evidence that appears real

• Immobilizes, prevents/delays forward movement


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But God, You Said …• You have not given me a spirit of fear, but of

power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)

• I don’t have to be afraid because there is thi d th t ill t b l d dnothing covered that will not be revealed, and

hidden that will not be known. (Matthew 10:26)

• I did not receive the receive the spirit of bondage again to fear because I have been adopted and can cry out "Abba, Father." (Romans 8:15)

Spiritual Disciplines

• Confession• Worship

• Meditation• Fasting

Spiritual disciplines open us up to hear from God.

• Prayer• Silence

• Study• Stewardship

July 24th-August 31st : Next 40 days, adapt spiritual disciplines to destroy the yoke of lack of discipline.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8; Hebrews 12; 2 Corinthians 8:10-12

Resources

• 60 Seconds to Greatness, Bishop Long• Called to Conquer Devotional, Bishop Long• Deliver Me From Adam, Bishop Long• Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren• A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm Phillip Keller• A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm , Phillip Keller• Pursuit of Holiness, Jerry Bridges• Practice of Godliness, Jerry Bridges• Necessary Endings, Henry Cloud• www.blueletterbible.org• www.crosswalk.com• www.biblegateway.com


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Nuggets from the Kitchen Table

• --A family must be able to make joint decisions (the Word of God says: “How can two walk together unless they agree”). Everyone has a responsibility to make joint decision. Be able to listen to your spouse and repeat what they have said.

• --Being on the same page does not mean always agreeing. This is way couples separate. We “MUST” get an agreement and be on the same page. There is power in agreement. So make sure that you are in agreement.

• --We need to be comfortable in ourselves and in God. Do not lose your identity, so if the worst happens you will be able to move on and be all that God has for you to be. Everything you do should align up with God and what He wants you to do.

Nuggets from the Kitchen Table

• --What ways have family laid the foundation for your life? Find time to find out what goes on in each individual’s life (Sunday’s Dinner).

• --Be true to who you are and who God has called you to be. When you are one with God, He will send you that mate.

• --When you have adults living in the home always set rule for the house and make sure that they comply to those rules.


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Resources• Elect Lady, Bishop Long• Gladiator, Bishop Long• I Don’t Want Delilah, I Need You, Bishop Long• What a Man Wants, What a Woman Needs, Bishop Long• Christian Living in the Home, Adams, Jay Edwardg , , y• Self-Confrontation: A Manual for In-Depth Discipleship,

John Briger• The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman• The Five Love Languages of Children, Gary Chapman• Boundaries, Henry Cloud• Understanding the Purpose and Power of Woman, Myles

Munroe

Resources

• Single, Married, Separated, & Life After Divorce, Myles Munroe

• Understanding the Purpose and Power of Woman, Myles Munroe

• HeMotions T D Jakes• HeMotions, T.D. Jakes• Liberated through Submission, P.B. Wilson• Knight and Shining Armor, P.B. Wilson• A Woman After God’s Own Heart, Elizabeth George

HEALTH & WELLNESS


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Health-Spiritual Audit

1. Who am I? Am I content with whom I am becoming?

a) What spiritual direction am I going? Not left or right, right or wrong)

b) What direction is my health going? Am I aging to fast or staying young?Am I getting more or less healthy in my journey?What inherently (genes) am I passing down to my next generation?

A and B are tied together. One cannot operate without the other being affected.

Health-Spiritual Audit2. Am I becoming less religious and more

spiritual?a) Am I following traditional mundane paths

or am I allowing myself to be stretched, searching or working my purpose?

b) Do I continue to eat foods that I know are adversely affecting my health?

Pray over a hamburger and fry meal and think God is going to make it somehow healthy) Or am I making the right choices to not only feed nutrition to my body but to also feed my spirit man?

• Our bodies are the first gift God gave to us.


3. Does my family recognize the authenticity of my journey? Do they see and believe the positive changes in my lifestyle?

a) Am I showing and sharing my walk?a) Am I showing and sharing my walk?

b) Is the change in my physical man reflective of my training? You can have a great workout and bad eating habits and very little occurs in your wellness.

4. Do I have a quiet center to my life?


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5. Is my spiritual feeding the right diet for me? a) Is my worship meeting me where I am,

feeding my spirit? If t d til it f dIf not upgrade until it feeds you.Bishop Long gives us great Word. We must apply it to our lives.

b) Is the food you are eating giving you life or is it pushing you to the grave before your time?


6. Do I have a flow through philosophy? Is my bowel clean or am I stagnant?

The freshness is in the flow; a mountain stream is fresh; the Everglades are stagnant.Some of us want to be like a lake and not a river. We want to accumulate before we let much flow through.David “ I will not give that which has cost me nothing”.


7. Do I bargain or rationalize with myself? Obedience largely determines my relationship with myself, my health, others and God. I must check my yobedience. My training/workout is not a job, it is what I enjoy to do.Do I obey God, my health out of fear or love? Both He and I would agree love is better.


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8. Do I have joy? Do I have it? a) Am I living with complacency, settling, or

being stagnant?

b) Am I living with joy knowing that I made the right choice for my God, for my family, and for my purpose? I am living knowing there is joy because I chose the right path.

DiseaseNumber of deaths for leading causes of death1. Heart disease: 616,0672. Cancer: 562,8753. Stroke (cerebrovascular

diseases): 135,9524. Chronic lower respiratory

diseases: 127,9245. Accidents (unintentional injuries):

123,7066. Alzheimer's disease: 74,6327. Diabetes: 71,3828. Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,7179. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome,

and nephrosis: 46,44810.Septicemia: 34,828Leading Causes of Death. National Center for Health Statistics. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm2011

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A Closer Look Into Our Community

CDC. National Vital Statistics Report. 2000. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_11.pdf.


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Mind and Emotions

We are tripartite beings –spirit, mind and body

We are capable of looking good on the inside whilegood on the inside while

being rotten on the inside.

Both the inside and outside should be consistent.

Prevention Methods

• Diet• Exercise• Regular Screenings• Regular Screenings• Knowledge of family history• Other

Resources• Women Stay Healthy at Any Age: Use the information in this pamphlet to help you stay healthy.

Learn about which screening tests to get, whether you need medicines to prevent diseases, and steps you can take for good health.

• Men Stay Healthy at Any Age: Use the information in this pamphlet to help you stay healthy. Learn about which screening tests to get, whether you need medicines to prevent diseases, and steps you can take for good health.

• Men Stay Healthy 50+ : Use this information to help you stay healthy at ages 50 and above. Learn which screening tests you need and when to get them which medicines may preventwhich screening tests you need and when to get them, which medicines may prevent

• diseases, and daily steps you can take for good health.

• Women Stay Healthy 50+ : Use this information to help you stay healthy at ages 50 and above. Learn which screening tests you need and when to get them, which medicines may prevent diseases, and daily steps you can take for good health.

• Children’s Health Coverage Programs in Georgia: Medicaid and CHIP provide no-cost or low-cost health coverage for eligible children in Georgia. Even if your children have been turned down in the past or you don’t know if they qualify, you may be able to get health coverage for them now. Medicaid and CHIP provide health coverage for children so that they can get routine check-ups, immunizations and dental care to keep them healthy. They can also get doctor visits, prescription medications and hospital care when they’re sick, and much more.


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Financial Planning

• You are the manger over God resources here on earth and be aware of where you are. Awareness is knowing where you are financially.

• Refusing to pull your credit report and not assessing your financial situation is a sign of denial and an indication that your finances may be out of control.

• Your first business is your home.

Financial Planning

• Three types of capital– Human capital – your family members– Intellectual – knowledge from life experiences

and what you have gone throughFi i l it l P b 13 11 “D t i– Financial capital – Proverb 13:11 “Do not give up or lose courage”

• Everyday make a decision to continue going• Money can have a hold on you or you can have

a hold on your money.


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Financial Planning

Financial Planning consists of 5 different components:

1. Cash Management (includes Tax Planning)2 A l ti G l (i l d I t t2. Accumulation Goals (includes Investment

Planning, College Savings Planning)3. Retirement Planning4. Estate Planning5. Risk Management and Insurance Planning

Cash Management

• When you say budget, what they hear is restriction.

• Scripture records in Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish (KJV) or Where there is no revelation the people cast off restraint (NKJV)revelation, the people cast off restraint (NKJV).

• Restrained means to hold back from action; keep in check or under control. Restrict means to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, etc.

Investment Planning• • In determining how to invest, there are a few things

you need to consider:

• 1. What are my investment goals? What am I trying to achieve? Is it long-term? Is it for a child’s education?

• 2. How much money do I have to invest?• • Directly investing in the stock market may require a

relatively large upfront investment• • Mutual Funds; however, may accept smaller monthly

contributions

• 3. What is my risk tolerance? How much can you stomach?


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Investment Planning1. What are my investment goals? What am I trying to

achieve? Is it long-term? Is it for a child’s education?

2. How much money do I have to invest?a) Directly investing in the stock market may require

a relatively large upfront investmentb) Mutual Funds; however, may accept smaller

monthly contributions

Investment Planning3. What is my risk tolerance? How much can you

stomach?a) What would be the effects if you lost a portion of your

investment? The greater the risk, the greater the return. If you invested $10,000, would you be o.k. if during a bad year you lost 2% but in a good yearduring a bad year you lost 2%, but in a good year, you gained 14% or would you be o.k. if during a bad year you lost 10%, but in a good year, you gained 25%?

Investment Planning4. What is the economic outlook?

5. How liquid does my investment need to be? In other words, how quickly can my investment be turned into cash

6. What is the impact of income taxes? In other words, how quickly can my investment be turned into cash


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Financial Resources

• The Holy Bible, by God• The Blessing In Giving, by Bishop Eddie L. Long• Reposition Yourself, by Bishop T.D. Jakes• God's Plans for Your Finances, by Dwight Nichols• Your Money Counts, by Howard Dayton• Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki• Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert T. Kiyosaki• Rich Dad's Guide to Investing, by Robert T. Kiyosaki• Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job, by Robert T.

Kiyosaki

Financial Resources

• The ABC's of Getting Out of Debt, by Garrett Sutton, Esq.

• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, by Verne Harnish• The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olsen

C ti W lth b R b t G All• Creating Wealth, by Robert G. Allen• Multiple Streams of Income, by Robert G. Allen• The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber• Family Wealth: Keeping It In The Family, by James E.

Hughes, Jr.• A Girl's Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business, by

Susan Wilson-Solovic

The Ultimate Life PlanPreparation for Life’s Final

Transition - Death


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When A Relative Dies

• Gather life insurance information• Arrange meeting with funeral

homehome• Arrange meeting with cemetery• Contact New Birth Member Care • Designate friends to assist

New Birth Homegoing Services

• Elders and Ministers• Ushers• One OrganistO e O ga s• One Production Engineer (Audio

Visual)• Use of Chapel (480 seating

capacity)

Major Expenses

• Funeral home: casket, family cars, programs, staff, flowers, police escort

• Cemetery: plot, vault, “opening & closing,” headstone/marker, flower vase

• Meals: repast, relatives in home• Hospital Expenditures• Physicians’ Charges


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Challenges Causing Confusion

• Lack of Planning • Poor Communication• Single Parent with young children• Single Parent with young children• Blended Families• Unresolved Marital Status

Preparation for Death

• Living Will• Notarized Last Will & Testament• Insurance Policies• Insurance Policies• Cash with immediate access• Communication with family &

executor


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Community & Civic EngagementCall to Action

• Opportunities to Serve the Community through New Birth– Safehouse– Valerie McKay Initiative (VMI)Valerie McKay Initiative (VMI)– Atlanta Day Shelter

• Contact Information– [email protected]– 770-696-9600 x1969

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16

Community & Civic EngagementCall to Action

• Finding Opportunities to Serve Your Local Community–HandsOnAtlanta:

handsonatlanta.org–Goal: Develop long-lasting

relationships with organizations


Community & Civic EngagementCall to Action: Rise Up & Serve

• Rise Up & Serve Initiative–150,000 service hours–120,000 people witnessed to, p p–120,000 guests invited to New Birth



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Community & Civic EngagementCall to Action: Rise Up & Serve

• Tracking your service– Via website: www.newbirth.org & click on Rise Up &

Serve banner on home page– During service: Rise Up & Serve Tracking Cards


www.HandsOnAtlanta.org


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CAREER PLANNING

Career SLP Coaches

• Elder Angela Hill• Patricia Norman

Career Planning

Environment

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Considerations

• Self-Audit– Strengths– Opportunities

• Department of Labor• Department of Labor– Resume– Skill Development

• Staffing Employment Agencies

• Employment Ministry

Employment Network Ministry Services

• Resume Writing• Resume Review• Career Assessment Assistance• Career Coaching• Interview Coaching

Provide Job Leads• Provide Job Leads• Host and Coordinate Career Fairs• Kiosk Staffed on Sundays After Service(s) to Assist Career

Seekers• On-site Employer Information Sessions/Recruiting Events• Assist Other Faith Based Organizations with Starting an

Employment Ministry

Employment Network Ministry Services

Career Readiness Classes and/or Seminars:

• “How to Get Your Resume to the Top of the Pile!” (Resume Preparation)

• “Arise and Prepare to Get that Job!” (Interview Preparation)Preparation)

• “Dressing for Success” (with the opportunity to select career clothing afterward)

• “Hear an Inside Perspective and Insight into the Hiring Process from Recruiters and HR Professionals” (panel of HR experts with Q&A session afterward)


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Practical Advice and Words of Wisdom

• The things that you go through in life prepare you or process you for where you are going. As we go through life, God is perfecting us and taking things out of us that are not like Him and placing things in us that are more like Christ. (Philippians 1:6)

• A job is not your source God is your source Trust God• A job is not your source. God is your source. Trust God to direct your paths and lean not unto your own understanding. (Psalm 121:2 and Proverbs 3:5)

• Have friends who know what season you are in regardless of what your current circumstances look like. Have friends who encourage and speak life to you.

• Do not let man define who you are. God is the one who formed you and has the blueprint for your life. (Jeremiah 1:5)

Practical Advice and Words of Wisdom

• God doesn’t always make sense. Sometimes he will give you an illogical instruction. Do what God says and not what people think you should do. (Judges 7 – Story of Gideon)

• Hear from God as he gives you strategic downloads, do what he says and enter in to His promisewhat he says and enter in to His promise.

• There was usually an action required before Jesus, the Prophets and God performed miracles.

• Encourage yourself with songs and sing praises unto God. Psalm 100 says to “come before his presence with singing”.

• The Bible is your instruction manual for good success. Meditate on it day and night. (Joshua 1:8)

Career Planning Resources

• The Holy Bible (King James Version) – God has the blueprint for your life (Jeremiah 29:11). The Word of God is the instruction manual for success (Joshua 1:8).

• StrengthFinders 2.0, Tom Rathg ,

• What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles (a Christian author) – Be sure to read the appendix entitled, “Finding Your Mission in Life.”

• Finding a Job God’s Way: Moving into the HOV Lane of Your Career by David Rawles (a Christian author).

• www.quintcareers.com

Documents

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