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Our Daily Bread Ministries To Debut Six-Episode YouTube Series Documenting the Emotional Lives of Christian Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines of Covid-19 on Monday, April 19…

Hello World,

As I’ve read Our Daily Bread Ministries devotionals for many years and I’ve recently written for Our Daily Bread Ministries, I’m truly excited about this new offering from  Our Daily Bread Films. Please see below.

Our Daily Bread Ministries announced the launch of Instruments of Peace: Faith on the Frontlines, a six-episode YouTube series that follows six Christian healthcare workers—three doctors, two nurses, and a chaplain—who have chosen to take up the fight against Covid-19 and care for patients in some of the hardest impacted regions of the world, including—Detroit, New York City, Olympia, Johannesburg, Manilla, and the United Kingdom.

Through retrospective interviews and in-the-moment video diaries, the series explores the range of emotions these frontline workers experience as people die around them and funding for health services fluctuate. Each Monday from April 19th through May 24th, Instruments of Peace delves into what faith looks like when committed to caring for the sick during a global pandemic. Below is the trailer followed by the episode guide and a few photographs from the series.

Episode Guide:

April 19th Ep 1: Idara Joy Inokon: Fighting for Life

ICU nurse, Idara Inokon rides an eerily empty subway to and from a New York City hospital during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Photo Credit: Our Daily Bread Ministries

Trauma. Death. Pressure. Brooklyn, New York, ICU nurse Idara Joy Inokon lived this every day as the Covid-19 pandemic ramped up in the spring of 2020. Her patients kept crashing and her hospital unit became a revolving door of death as she faced the stress and anxiety of the unknown. Yet every day, she continued to show up. And she continued to trust God for peace and strength in the middle of the storm. Now a travel nurse in El Paso, TX, she’s wondering how much trauma she can take, and asking God to give her strength every day.

New York City ICU nurse Idara Inokon suits up in protective gear for her shift during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. When a patient asked for a fan to cool her fever, Idara stood by her side and fanned her. A fellow nurse recorded her act of kindness and the video went viral.
Photo Credit: Our Daily Bread Ministries

April 26th Ep 2: Aaron Beck: Learning to Trust God

Dr. Aaron Beck records a video diary entry in 2020 that captures his struggles to determine how to provide the best care for his patients when—at the time—so little was known about COVID-19.
Photo Credit: Our Daily Bread Ministries

A worldwide pandemic lets us know that we are not in control. Just a few months after moving his family across the country to the Pacific Northwest to join a medical practice, Aaron Beck found himself treating patients in a hotspot. He faced uncertainty for his own health, fear of what that meant for his young family, and doubts about how to provide the best care for his patients. But through it all, he forged a deeper dependence on God, because he had no choice but to trust.

May 3rd Ep 3: Marcia Fairrow: Prayer and Grief

Marcia is a chaplain in Detroit, MI who loves to pray with and comfort patients and their families. When Covid-19 hit, ventilators and health and safety restrictions took that human connection away from her. As she battles her own grief and anger, she struggles to learn how to be a chaplain for people she can’t physically be with.

May 10th Ep 4: Hannah and Zuriel Bernardino: Acts of Kindness and Love

Hannah is a Doctor at a Wellness Center in Manila, Philippines. Her husband Zuriel is a pastor and her emotional rock. When Covid-19 hit Manila, Hannah was transferred to a Covid ICU, where she battled her own anxiety and depression. But, Zuriel was there to support her while she cared for others, and together they are living out their faith.

May 17th Ep 5: Nellie Balfour: A Young Hero and a Mother’s Legacy of Prayer

When Nellie was a child, her family fled Apartheid in South Africa to Australia, where she developed severe asthma. The doctors who took care of her became her heroes and motivated her to become a doctor. Now a pediatric doctor in a poor district of Johannesburg, SA, she struggles to save children in a place ravaged by Covid-19 and to trust that her best efforts are good enough. But, inspired by a mother who prays ceaselessly, she is learning to give her fears and anxiety to God.

May 26th Ep 6: Bex Lawton: Faith and Fear for Those We Love

Bex is a mother of three young children and a pediatric nurse in England. In 2019, her husband nearly died from a liver condition and Covid-19 made her terrified that if he were to catch it he would die. While some other Christians shamed her for her fear, she felt like fearing for her husband’s life and taking every precaution was the most loving thing she could do. This conflict put her on a path of struggling with, and ultimately being sustained by, her faith.

Our Daily Bread Films produces documentaries and short videos that inspire and encourage people to draw closer to God and help them grow in their faith. They are a part of Our Daily Bread Ministries, a nondenominational, nonprofit organization that distributes more than 60 million resources in 150 countries.

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Marcy Myles-Clark Pens ‘Praying Wife, Healed Husband’ After Her Husband Theirrien Clark, John Hopkins Hospital’s Earliest and Sickest COVID-19 Patient, Recovers…

Hello World,

One year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was a global pandemic! If God has spared your life to mark this anniversary, you need to take a minute right now and give Him some praise on this Sunday morning! To that end, I have a “modern-day biblical story” of victory over COVID-19 to share with you!

One year after the couple’s battle with COVID-19, Marcy Myles-Clark has released her debut book, Praying Wife, Healed Husband, a riveting account of Marcy’s spiritual fight on behalf of her husband, Theirrien “Tee” Clark. Using her journal entries, medical records and a series of communications with her husband’s medical staff, family and friends, Marcy recounts how she remarkably and relentlessly stirred up a bounty of prayer warriors to breathe hope into a hopeless situation—and bring her husband home. On December 18, 2020, “Tee” Clark, one of Howard County’s first COVID-19 cases, received an honorary Doctor’s White Coat from John Hopkins Hospital for his miraculous recovery after a 46-day hospitalization. The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage for medical students and was created by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 1993. During the ceremony, a white coat is placed on each student’s shoulders and often the Hippocratic Oath is recited, signifying their entrance into the medical profession.

1. What were your initial thoughts when you heard about the pandemic in March 2020?

Marcy: In early March of last year, it was not a huge deal. It was definitely on my radar. It was something we knew to be concerned about, but we had no idea of the magnitude and that things were going to happen so quickly. And that we wouldn’t have the ability to prepare ourselves for it. We were the fourth and fifth in our county to be diagnosed with COVID-19 (just to give a glimpse at how early on it was). We were totally blindsided. At that point, there was talk about social distancing, but we weren’t even talking about masks yet.

Tee: Given the talking points we received from the government, it wasn’t really clear how deadly this disease was. There weren’t a bunch of reported deaths at the time, so no one knew the severity. Even though we were a little suspicious hearing about it, we did everything on our end to protect ourselves. But we still ended up getting infected.

2. Take me back to your life at that point, Tee, you’re a manager at a law firm, and Marcy you’re a pharmaceutical sales rep. When did you begin to experience COVID-19 symptoms?

Marcy: Our experience started on March 13, which was our last working day on a Friday. On Saturday, we became fatigued. It wasn’t impossible that we would be fatigued because we do a lot of things. We rip and run. We commute. We thought we would just relax all weekend. Then my husband became symptomatic. He developed a fever. Then he started getting chills. Classic flu symptoms.  Then he developed a cough. His temperature was intermittent between 99 and 100. I told him by Monday, if his temperature reached 101, we were going to go to urgent care–and hit 101 like clockwork. So, we went to urgent care on Monday morning. My symptoms were mild. I felt like I had a sinus infection because I had nasal discomfort which I experience often so it was no big deal to me. I figured I was just tired, but he was the dead giveaway.

No one was doing COVID testing but the hospital. Because of his symptoms, urgent care referred us to the hospital where we got COVID tests. The next day, on March 17, we were diagnosed with COVID.

What was your initial reaction when you were both diagnosed with COVID-19?

Tee: I was very upset because I was trying to figure out how and where I caught this virus because we had been so careful. But because we were out in the public a lot, we were exposed to a lot of different factors. That Friday evening, I had spoken with my boss and we were discussing closing the firm down. Given what they were saying about this virus, I asked him if he thought any of us were going to get sick. His response was that inevitably someone was going to get sick. We have a law firm of 1,000 people, somebody is definitely going to get it. Little did I know it would be me.

Marcy: For me, in a weird kind of way, it was really a relief because I’m the type of person who thinks: “let’s find out what the devil is and let’s deal with it.” By then, I had kind of figured he had COVID because he had every one of the classic symptoms the CDC and WHO were warning us of, and everything else like the flu and RSV had been ruled out.

Marcy, What was it like to be living a normal life and then have to leave your husband at the hospital and not be with him?

It was crazy. We had gotten in touch with his pulmonologist because he has asthma and allergies. I called his doctor that Friday before. He was actually doing better but his cough was pretty bad. The doctor planned for nurses to meet us at the curb. I dropped him off at the curb and because I was also COVID positive, they wouldn’t let me in. They took his vitals, and I thought he was going to be okay. He just had this cough, and I thought they would just give him some medicine–maybe give him a treatment or something, and then send him on his way.

So, I sat in the car and waited for him to come back out. About 45 minutes later, I called them, and no one answered. I called his phone and he didn’t answer. Five minutes later, he called me back. He put the doctor on the line. The doctor told me that things were worse than they had anticipated, and they needed my permission to do an emergency intubation. As you can imagine, my stomach, my heart and everything just dropped. And that was the beginning of this chapter. I wouldn’t see him alive and well for another 46 days. And he was on a ventilator for 28 of those days.

Tee, what were you thinking at this time or were you too sick to realize what was happening?

I was pretty doped up on cough medicine with codeine, so I was a little out of it. I slept all of the way to the hospital so when we got there, Marcy woke me up and the nurse rolled me in. Initially, the doctors set it up for me to get a cat scan but because COVID was so new, there were no protocols in place. They didn’t know how to prep the machine for a COVID patient. And the doctors said, we need to do something. We can’t wait. They decided to do a chest x-ray. Based off of that x-ray, they determined that I was in lung failure. When the doctor came back into my room, I said, ‘Okay, doc, give me my prescription so I can go home and go to sleep.’ He said, ‘No sir, Mr. Clark, your lungs are failing. We need to intubate you right away.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ That woke me up! I said, ‘I need to call my wife.’ That’s when I called her back and put the doctor on the phone. By then, they had already started an IV drip. Once I handed the doctor the phone, I was out. That was the last time I spoke to her for over 30 days.

3. So I read in your book Marcy that you assembled a prayer team after that.

A lot of things transpired in that time period after hearing that news and not knowing if he was going to live or die. I’ve always been a person of faith and prayer and this was the time to put my money where my mouth was. Interestingly enough, when I was sitting in the parking lot, I tried to figure out what my next move was going to be. I had every imaginable and unimaginable emotion from panic to grief. But my spiritual side just kicked in and I knew I needed to go into prayer. I sent out a few family texts. I made a couple of phone calls. In doing so, I got a call from our niece who is a minister and very strong in her faith. She prayed a mighty prayer for me, and I believe that is what got me home that night.

I sent out a bunch of texts and emails to my friends and family and just activated the prayer chain from there. I solicited prayer from every part of the country and then some. I organized a prayer call, scheduled and impromptu calls, keeping everyone in the loop about his status. As we prayed for him, he would have these different episodes. His oxygen levels would drop, and he would have issues with an irregular heartbeat, and a number of different tragic events. And as we prayed, he would respond. I knew this because I was in touch with the doctors on a regular basis, several times a day. That is the premise of the book. I documented my conversations with the doctors and kept record of  his vitals and physical condition. Whatever the episode was, after prayer, he rebounded. We prayed without ceasing.

A lot of people are private with their struggles, what made you so public about what was going with your husband?

Me and Tee have a really great support system. We love a lot of people–and a lot of people love us. And I know firsthand the power of prayer–of collective prayer. I believe in prayer in numbers. I didn’t know anything else to do. My husband was fighting for his life, and the only weapon I had was prayer.  We are private people but when it comes to something like this, it’s not the time to be private. I will say this, when we first got the diagnosis, we did say we were going to keep it to ourselves because we were among the first to be diagnosed with COVID in our area. We thought it would be over in 14 days. But that went out the window when he had to fight for his life.

And God was speaking to me the whole time. He told me early on that we were going to be okay, but he also told me that I needed to assemble a group of people and pray him back to health. He said to pray like his life counted on it. I felt like if my husband’s living was based on my prayers, then he was going to live.

4. In the book, you were so meticulous with all of the notes you took and your emails, both of which you kept. What gave you the presence of mind at that time to keep track of all that information?

I wasn’t thinking of trying to write a book. I was just trying to stay sane and organized. I was talking to several people during that time frame. I talked to his physician, his hospital providers, etc. five or so times a day. I started writing little sticky notes all over the place and then I realized I need to take this up a few notches. I started writing on loose leaf paper and then I created a binder. That way, I could go back to my previous notes and see where he was earlier in the day and kind of see where the progression was.

I was also journaling for my own personal relaxation. I was journaling my own personal conversations with God. I was also keeping in contact with my prayer group via text. So those were the three things when he began to recuperate that I realized I had. I had the unveiling of a modern-day biblical story. Also, there was a lot of interest in his story when he began to recuperate. I was encouraged to write a book. And it wasn’t that big of a stretch because I realized that I had all of the content.

5. Your husband started getting better around Easter, which is a miraculous turn of events with the timing.

On Easter Sunday, I got the call that he was doing very well, and they were taking steps to try extubate him. I almost fell out of my seat because up until then, things had been so grim.

I read, Tee, that you were trying to get completely well and out of the hospital by your fifth anniversary on May.

When I woke up, I was literally out of it. I didn’t know where I was. All of these people were around me and I answered some of their questions. My initial thought was, I need to get up and go to the bathroom. I tried to move and realized I was paralyzed. I was really freaking out at that moment. I couldn’t move anything–not even my head. In fact, the nurse was cradling my head like I was a baby.

They told me I was going to get some intense physical therapy. I had physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology once I left the ICU. They never told me a release date, but I told them I was going to be out of there by May 5. I wanted to be home with my wife on our anniversary. The doctor said to me, ‘That’s a pretty aggressive date, Mr. Clark. You have to meet a couple of thresholds before we consider that.’” I asked what the thresholds were. I was told you have to be able to stand and walk at least 20 feet. When I heard that, I couldn’t sleep. I thought about that all night long. It felt so far away because I had to first get to the point where I caould use a walker.

One of the physical therapists who came in one morning was like a drill sergeant. She said, ‘You only walked 10 feet. You have to get to 20 feet.” But I was determined so I said, ‘No problem.’ I ended up walking 60 feet that day, and 20 of them were without the walker. When I got back on the bed, they were all happy and clapping. The doctor came in and said, ‘You know you’re making great progress. We’re going to meet and discuss your release date.’ I said, ‘Tomorrow! It’s the 5th.’ I ended up being released on May 6, one day after our anniversary.

Although it was day late, what did the two of you do to celebrate your 5th anniversary?

Marcy: Well, we were still on lockdown then, so we didn’t do anything special. We were just happy to be in each other’s presence.

Tee: I still was very weak. I couldn’t walk for too long. I had a lot of problems with balance. I still had fatigue issues. Basically, Marcy was taking care of a baby. In fact, she was helping me to shower one night, and she hurt her back. And it really bothered me. I realized that we needed some additional assistance, so we ended up getting an in-home aide to assist me with those type of things until I got strong enough to do them for myself.

6. What are your lingering symptoms?

Till this day, I still have problems with my right arm. The deltoid muscle was damaged from being on the ventilator so long because I was laying on that. And it killed the muscle. Also, my body has been conditioned to wake up every two hours so I’m still having major sleep issues. When I was in the ICU, they would come in every two hours to take my vitals. Some days, I wake up and I’m extremely tired. I have COVID brain fog sometimes. They call me a long hauler.

7. Why do you think God allowed this to happen to the two of you. What have you learned from this experience?

I think initially we had a mission to get the word out about COVID. It frustrated us because we would go out and see people not abiding by the CDC guidelines. I actually had a lady stop me one time and ask me, ‘Why are you wearing a mask?’ She said she didn’t like wearing masks because she can’t breathe, and they fogged up her glasses. I said, ‘Oh, that’s interesting. Let me tell you this: If you have tube stuck down your throat, you’re not going to be able to breathe either. I’m speaking from my experience as a COVID survivor.’ She looked at me and walked away.

Now our mission going forward is to tell people that they need to get the vaccine. In our community, people are a little apprehensive about getting the vaccine because of our history. But I tell people all of the time that this is a new day and a new virus.

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A 31-Year-Old Virgin When She Married, Kim Wilson Promotes Sexual Abstinence as a Way to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus!

Hello World,

As TODAY is Valentine’s Day, I think this sponsored post is very timely!

Below is my interview with Kim Wilson, founder of The Loretta Johnson Global Abstinence Movement and God’s Active People/G.A.P Ministries.

Through The Loretta Johnson Global Abstinence Movement, Kim focuses on the urgency of promoting abstinence especially to black and Hispanic women and girls, who need it the most, but receive it the least. She also develops and presents specific workshops and seminars, such as “Experiencing God’s Best for Your Life through Abstinence” (for women and girls), “Abstinence is the Cure” (for leaders and parents) and “Making Money God’s Way” (for women and girls). The information from these workshops and seminar has been presented throughout the United States and in over 20 countries on 3 continents, to approximately tens of thousands of women and girls.

Her “The ABSTINENCE Handbook: For Women and Girls Throughout the World” is available in four languages: English, Spanish, French and Kiswahili and is in a FREE audiobook format as well! Click HERE to listen. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and an MBA in Marketing from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. She lives with her husband in Peachtree City, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta) and has one son.

1.Why did you create The Loretta Johnson Global Abstinence Movement?

First of all, The Loretta Johnson Abstinence Movement started 11 years ago in 2010 and is named after my late mother, who was a nurse. So, I’m really carrying on her legacy too. My mother did a lot to help women – single women who could barely feed their children by the end of the month. She would take part of her checks and give them money to buy food for their kids. I saw that growing up. I remember when my mother was in nursing school, and I was a little girl of about eight or nine years old, I would actually go around with her, through a program she was involved in,  to very low-income areas, the projects, and provide healthcare for young girls who were pregnant and only about 12 and 13 years old. I saw that and it just impacted me a great deal.

And now as an adult, I see the consequences of not being abstinent and premarital sex. And how it was destroying the Black family and Black kids and all of the issues that come along with it. (According to a 2020 report from the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home, “although unwed childbearing has increased a great deal across all racial groups, it is higher among Black and Hispanic women than White women. Over two-thirds of births to Black women (69 percent) are to unwed mothers, and over half (52 percent) of births to Hispanic women are. Among non-Hispanic White women, the figure is just 28 percent, though that was up from only 2 percent in 1960.”)

2.What have you done to promote the movement?

I have done a lot of traveling and seminars for women’s groups and youth and leadership groups. My book is a key part of what I’ve done.  Because the book is written in Kiswahili and French, we have a huge following in Africa. And we started what we call The Loretta Johnson Abstinence Center, so we give the women over there the option of not having to do ungodly things such as prostitution in order to make a living. And to be able to abstain from sex before marriage and to be able to learn different vocational skills. There are several leaders over there who promote abstinence, and we call them Abstinence Ambassadors. My book has sold thousands of copies, but I also promote promote it by giving away thousands of copies. And we’re in six different continents. All except Antarctica.

3.Your mother advocated for sexual abstinence with the young women that she cared for as a nurse. Did she communicate that same message to you?

I married as a virgin at 31 years old.

4. How were you able to remain abstinent?

Honestly, my love for my mother first. And my commitment to her because she sacrificed so much for me to have a good education and to go to top colleges and get my MBA and so forth. I had an intense love for her. And she passed on to me her love for Jesus. That’s what I saw in her. So, it was for my mother at first. I didn’t want to bring home any baggage, any unwanted babies. Or put any stress on her because she had already sacrificed so much for me. And once I actually developed a personal relationship with Christ, that’s when I began to do it for Jesus, which I did up until the time I got married.

Did your father influence you in this decision at all?

Although I wish my father had been there more for me during my childhood, I love him very much, and I’m happy to say that he did accept Christ and became a Christian when he was in his 50s, way after my mother did.But he did sit me down as a young teenage girl and taught me how men think or how boys think and how their bodies work differently than girls’ bodies. I was just beginning to obviously like boys. I’m originally from Alabama, but I grew up in Nashville and I finished high school in Atlanta at St. Pius. We moved here in my junior year. Men don’t have the same emotions or feelings or attachments as women. They can actually have sex with you and then just cut it off. They don’t have that connection or emotional attachment. They can just walk away and many of them do, especially if that’s all they wanted. And if you have a child from that, you’re stuck. So that was a lesson that he taught me, that I understood. And it helped  me to say no because usually that person was not interested in loving me. They just wanted sex to meet their physical need.

5. You wrote“The ABSTINENCE Handbook: For Women and Girls Throughout the World” Why? And tell me more about what will readers will learn.

It’s based on Christianity. First of all, I tell them that premarital sex is wrong in the sight of God. Teenagers and even grown women don’t know that premarital sex or sex outside of marriage is wrong. They have no idea. And they’re Christians. Many of them I’ve met at Christian conventions. Many pastors at black churches and Hispanic churches won’t address this issue because it drives away people. Many of these women, if not the majority, who have had children outside of wedlock, they are also at church. A black church is typically about 80 percent women so the women run the church and fund the church, even if the pastor is male. So, a lot of the pastors don’t want to lose the majority of their congregation. The typical church is only about 90 people.  About half of those show up on a Sunday and even fewer than that are involved. If you’re a pastor of a small church, about 80 of the people in a church of  100 people are women. And a large number of those women are having sex outside of marriage.

So, when you tell them that premarital sex is a sin, and you go to hell because of this sin like what is said in Galatians 5 and Revelation 21, they don’t want to hear that. So that’s when many of them will leave or they will stop giving the money. And the church won’t be able to survive. And the black church is not dealing with this like they should. But what they should understand is that if this issue is not addressed, these same women and girls in their church could die from HIV or AIDs and will never be able to attend church again. And black men aren’t going to church. We’ve probably reached more of them online since COVID-19 than we have for years.

6. You believe that two-parent black households are expected to continue to decrease. Why?

I’m a marketing person and I don’t just look at what I read. When I’m out and about, I do a lot of observation. Around Father’s Day, I look and see how many black kids are buying Father’s Day cards. I don’t see that many. At Christmas time, I don’t see that many black families with a mother and father and kids going to shop. I only see the mother and the kids. I only see the mother typically with a grandmother or whatever. When I go to restaurants around Peachtree City or Fayetteville or Atlanta or throughout the U.S, you don’t see black families. You may see a woman and man together but when it comes to a mother and father, who are married with kids, you don’t see it. It’s almost like they’ve become celebrities.

I’ve experienced that myself. With my husband and my son, we do volunteer work at my church, which is out in Fairburn. We do it in a pantry, giving out food. Sometimes, we come together, but sometimes we go individually. My son is a senior in college so he’s grown and so forth. And one time, there was this particular man who saw us, and he had no idea we were married. But one day, all three of us were together. So he just exploded with joy. He said, ‘So you guys are married and this is your son?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah,’ and he was like ‘Wow, that’s great!’ That should not be this rare. It’s almost like you become a celebrity. And I often feel the same when I see or meet a Black or Hispanic family with children with 2 married parents.

7. Why do you feel that the coronavirus pandemic has made your work more critical?

When I started hearing those percentages of Blacks and Hispanics dying the fastest. (According to The Brookings Institution, “COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death for Black Americans” in the Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis Report.) We’re talking about days. And then it got closer and closer to home for me. Relatives being affected. I look at the overall picture. What I do is very global. So I began to do some research. And I said, I know we’re frontline workers, but it’s something else that’s got this going. I researched through the CDC and I saw that premarital sex breaks every rule that they tell you to do to stay safe or to keep from getting infected. I have been promoting abstinence for all of these years based on avoiding HIV and AIDS because of the high number of Black and Hispanic people who die from that.  (According to a 2019 report from the CDC, Disparities in Incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Black and White Women — United States, 2010–2016, “although Black women accounted for 13% of the U.S. female population, 60% of new HIV infections among women were in Black women.”) And they can die in about two years or so from that. But with COVID, you can die in two days.

For more information about The Loretta Johnson Global Abstinence Movement & G.A.P. Ministries and Founder, Kim Wilson, visit the website at www.gapmovement.net or contact us by phone/text at 678-491-8583 or email at kimwilson125@att.net.

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