Watch Kierra Sheard on TV One’s “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin on Monday, Aug. 1!

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Hello World,

Kierra Sheard will chat with television host Roland Martin about her “BRIDGES Tour,” new EP “LED,” a self-titled app, politics and more on Monday, August 1, 2016 – 7A/6C!

Listen Live at: http://newsone.com

Watch Kierra Sheard as she performed “Freedom” by Beyonce live in Detroit at the “BRIDGES Tour,” on July 23.

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P.S. Stay tuned for awesome After the Altar Call content this week! (Not that all of my content isn’t great (LOL), but I’m truly excited about what’s coming…Stay tuned 🙂 )

How to Find a Date By Valentine’s Day!

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kiplynIf you live in the A or are willing to travel to the A, you too can have a boo by V-Day! For real! Kiplyn Primus, host of The Local Take along with Christian psychologist Dr. Alduan Tartt,  host of  Heart to Heart With Dr. Tartt, on Jazz 91.9 WCLK are celebrating Valentine’s Day with Let’s Make a Match!

This free matchmaking event will be held tomorrow, Feb. 13 from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at South DeKalb Mall, which is located at 2801 Candler Road, Decatur, GA 30034.  Bachelors and bachelorettes will be asked to complete an application explaining why they are the most eligible bachelor or bachelorette. Also, there will two games: one for men and one for women. Two winning couples will be awarded prizes from retailers in the mall. Also, dinner for two will be available for the winners on Sunday Feb. 14th the official day of love! alduan

Let’s Make A Match is a fun way to find a date for Valentine’s Day! We are hoping for love, but we guarantee fun,” says Primus, Let’s Make a Match co-host.

Dr. Tartt, who is also co-hosting the event, will be on hand and will take questions from the audience providing his unique perspective on healthy relationships. To download the application, click on this link! Ebony Clark of South DeKalb Mall is taking applications until Saturday morning at 11am.  She can be reached at EBClark@urbanretail.com.

So if you are looking to find a date by Valentine’s Day, you need to be at South DeKalb Mall on Saturday!

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Kelly Gissendaner Will Be Executed Tomorrow Without Our Intervention…

Read to find out how you can help!

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Editor’s Note: This is a previous post from earlier this year. Kelly Gissendaner’s life was spared in March, but she is scheduled to be executed tomorrow unless we act. To find out more about Kelly Gissendaner, please read the blog post below . To help her: the most important thing you can do is call the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles RIGHT NOW and tell them to show mercy. Here’s the number: (404) 656-4661, press “0” and then “4.”

Then, email them by clicking here, post a message to their Facebook here, and click here to send a Tweet.

Hello World,

Last week, when I first saw a story about Kelly Gissendaner, I quickly looked at the mug shot and read a few lines of the story “Weather Threat Postpones Georgia’s First Execution of a Woman in 70 Years” and concluded, she looks like a criminal and went on with my life…

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But then through the blog post “When Is Grace Enough?”  by Alisha L. Gordon on findthepieces.com, I saw another side of this dead woman walking initially through the picture above…and then through these words…

This matters, even now, as I have friends and colleagues who personally know Kelly. They’ve laughed and talked with her. They’ve walked with her through new theological understandings and guided her to completing a certificate in theological studies through the Candler School of Theology and the Lee Arrendale Prison, where she’s currently housed. The partnership between Candler and Arrendale has provided women like Kelly the opportunity to transform their lives — from the inside out. It has given her a fresh start on a life that took a terrible turn. It was a full extension of God’s grace in action. To read the rest of the blog post, go to findthepieces.com.

And then on Friday, on the WAOK radio program “Too Much Truth” with Derrick Boazman, I listened to the testimony of Nikki Roberts, a former inmate at Metro State Prison in Georgia and pastor’s daughter, who found herself in jail and suicidal…As a pastor’s daughter myself, I was compelled to listen as she cried and described her friendship with Kelly Gissendaner…But for Kelly Gissendaner, she may have taken her life…Nikki Roberts talks about Kelly Gissendaner here…

Kelly Gissendaner’s story has even found its way to The New York Times

From “A Death Row Inmate Finds Common Ground With Theologians.”

A lot of convicted felons find God while in prison. Some of their stories rise to the level of literature — Oscar Wilde, Malcolm X. Others are less sincere; parole boards around the country are treated to a lot of conversion stories.

Few are anything like Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, who is scheduled on Monday to be put to death by lethal injection. She became pen pals with one of the world’s most prominent theologians.

In 1998, Ms. Gissendaner was sentenced to death for persuading her boyfriend to murder her husband. The crime, which she now admits, was brutal. Many, including some of her slain husband’s relatives, want her to die. She probably will; the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency this week. To read the rest of the story, go here.

Here is a link to her clemency application

And here is link to a Facebook page supporting Kelly Gissendaner, and if you tweet about Kelly Gissendaner, use the hashtag #KellyOnMyMind…

And of course, she can use our prayers….

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