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Dr. Deborah Dent is one in all seven ladies who might be honored on the Ladies of Advantage Brunch on June 3.

Trudy James Brown

Patricia Hemphill

Gertrude Younger

Dorothy Miles

Bertha Mayfield

Martha Walker

Seven Vicksburg ladies are being honored as ladies of advantage for the Christian manner they’ve lived their lives.

The seven — Patricia Hemphill, Trudy James-Brown, Gertrude Younger, Dr. Deborah Dent, Bertha Mayfield, Martha Walker and Dorothy Miles — might be honored on the Ladies of Advantage Brunch on June 3 at 10 a.m., on the Ardis T. Williams Auditorium on Monroe Avenue.

The speaker for the brunch is Dr. Leslie F. Jones, professor of government management at College of the Holy Cross in New Orleans.

This system is the results of an thought by resident Lorann Jones-Archer, who shaped a committee of younger ladies to plan the occasion and choose the honorees.

“We wished to honor women in the neighborhood of Vicksburg which have led virtuous lives with their households, with the neighborhood, with their church households,” she stated. “They’ve led an instance of what a virtuous lady, a Christian lady, ought to seem like.”

The committee, Jones-Archer stated, wished to take time to salute the ladies and rejoice their lives as optimistic function fashions for younger folks to emulate.

“It’s to point out them that, hey, the world is filled with a number of evil however when you reside proper and also you belief God, God will present up in your life by your actions, your works and your deeds,” she stated.

The roots of her thought for the brunch, Jones-Archer stated, got here from rising up in Thibodaux in South Louisiana.
In South Louisiana, Jones-Archer stated, there’s a number of fellowship and celebration and he or she wished to deliver that customized to Vicksburg.

“I believe we’d like extra of that in Vicksburg,” she stated. “We have to spotlight positivity and be from a Christian residence.
“Being a Christian myself, I believe it can be crucial for us to rejoice ladies of advantage which might be doing optimistic issues to present hope and inspiration and to function function fashions for others to see it’s solely what you do for Christ that may final, and that God can direct your whole steps and, uh, make you, make you stand out and talk. It’s nice to face out in a optimistic technique to have optimistic results on folks.”

Jones-Archer stated she requested every member of this system committee to take a look at scripture and accounts of virtuous ladies within the Bible, “and I requested them to select a woman in the neighborhood that has these qualities and has impacted their life in a optimistic technique to make them make clever selections as ladies of God. That’s how we got here up with the names.”

Tickets to the brunch are $15 upfront and $20 on the door. They are often bought from Archer, Kimberly Nailor, LaToya Allen, Ashley James, Monica Watson or the Rev. James Archer. Tickets are additionally obtainable on Eventbrite.

About John Surratt

John Surratt is a graduate of Louisiana State College with a level basically research. He has labored as an editor, reporter and photographer for newspapers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Submit workers since 2011 and covers metropolis authorities. He and his spouse attend St. Paul Catholic Church and he’s a member of the Port Metropolis Kiwanis Membership.

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