{"id":19930,"date":"2013-03-07T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:45:50","slug":"pastor-to-add-education-component-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19930","title":{"rendered":"Pastor To Add Education Com- ponent To Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the last month, two young men have been killed and five others injured by gun violence. In response to the violence in the community, one Tampa pastor has launched a program to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <strong>Pastor Antonio Hawkins,<\/strong> of Exciting Alive Church, 5705 E. 32nd Avenue, hosted a community meeting at his church. In subsequent meetings, members of the community have outlined various avenues to divert the attention of these youths to positive achievements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor Hawkins<\/strong> said, \u201cI have spoken with the GED Department at the school board and I am looking forward to adding a component at the church. Hopefully, we can expand the program to some of our other target communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that he plans to meet with <strong>Lewis Brinson<\/strong>, Assistant Superintendent for Administration for the Hillsborough County Public School District to get support for the school adoption program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reaching out to businesses, churches, non-profits and others in hopes of them adopting one inner-city school. The partnership could provide mentors, tutors, and other programs for the student population,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor Hawkins<\/strong> said he has also set up a meeting with <strong>Greg Bayor<\/strong>, Director of Parks &amp; Recreation for the City of Tampa. \u201cWe want to build a relationship with him so that when we have events, we will also have the support of the Parks &amp; Recreation Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting of Saving Our Youth will take place on Monday, March 11th, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Within the last month, two young men have been killed and five others injured by gun violence. In response to the violence in the community, one Tampa pastor has launched a program to address the problem. Last month, Pastor Antonio Hawkins, of Exciting Alive Church, 5705 E. 32nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}