{"id":8669,"date":"2011-07-21T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2011-07-21T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:24:37","slug":"siblings-follow-one-another-as-winners-of-national-oratorical-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8669","title":{"rendered":"Siblings Follow One Another As Winners Of  National Oratorical Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha H. N. Coleman<\/strong>, a middle school student from Tampa, won a national oratorical contest Tuesday at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Deacons Convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong> followed in her brother\u2019s footsteps as the national winner. <strong>Lyfe L. Coleman<\/strong> was the national winner of the contest last summer (2010) when the convention was held in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong> competed against two finalists from states along the Eastern seaboard of the USA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong> is a delegate to the youth department of the convention and spoke about spiritual worship and empowering young people for leadership.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong> is an 8th grade student at Memorial Middle School. <strong>Lyfe<\/strong> is a 10th grade student at Middleton High School.<strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong>, 13, and <strong>Lyfe<\/strong>, 15, are members of The New Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Tampa, Inc., <strong>Rev. Dr. Walter J. Williams<\/strong>, pastor. They are active participants in drill team, youth ushers, youth choir, Shepherd\u2019s Men, community service, and other activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asha<\/strong>, 13, and <strong>Lyfe<\/strong>, 15, are members of The New Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Tampa, Inc., <strong>Rev. Dr. Walter J. William<\/strong>s, pastor.<\/p>\n<p>The siblings are the son and daughter of Tampa businessman <strong>LIFE<\/strong>, <strong>Sonia Coleman<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer Williams<\/strong>. They are the grandchildren of (paternal) <strong>Roosevelt Coleman<\/strong>, <strong>Earnestine Coleman<\/strong>, (maternal) <strong>Ulysses Harmon<\/strong> and the late <strong>Mary Harmon<\/strong>; and aunt, <strong>Jerlean Johnson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Their great-grandmother is the late <strong>Alberta Macon<\/strong>; and their godparents are<strong> Rev. Bruce Strange<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. Martina Strange<\/strong>.<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor Asha H. N. Coleman, a middle school student from Tampa, won a national oratorical contest Tuesday at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Deacons Convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Asha followed in her brother\u2019s footsteps as the national winner. Lyfe L. Coleman was the national winner of the [&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-8669","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\/8669","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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}