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Juneteenth Jubilee 2025 #community #juneteenth2025

Thr May 17, 2025 #mentalhealthmatters community event at SSBC MD was such a necessary and valuable conversation. Hosted by Tasya Jones and her MERCY House Team, as well as the Prison and ChurchFit ministries.

Featuring the works of Billye Okera and André T. Miller. 💚

SSBC MD Mental Health Matters Conference 2025 - RGMI Press in the Conversation

"S-U-C-S-E-E-D" is how a high school graduate like André T. Miller with ADHD would spell it. As a poor boy from the Eastern Shore, he saw the "seed" but he thought about success. Success requires seeds of hard work to develop fertile soil and a harvest in the fields of life. Blood, sweat, tears, and prayers are the watering. God's light is the sun.

From the church house to the school house, from the football fields to the streets of Afghanistan and Landover, Maryland, he overcame his "Fear to SUCSEED." Signing and release at John 3:16 Christian Bookstore, Largo, Md.

The Fear to SUCSEED - Book Signing at John 3:16 Books

Stumblin' Towards Calvary: Madness, Memories, and Mercy in Poems and Essays is the latest body of poems and essays by renowned folk-performance poet, Billye Okera. The book is equal parts words of worship, struggles of faith, and a summoning of the conscience of the Black Pentecostal / Apostolic Church, which is a familiar culture she encapsulates throughout the pages.

Includes deeply intimate journal entries and themes such as relationship with God, love, nature, family dynamics, pitfalls of church culture, African American spiritual life, world events, and abuse. Readers experience a journey of madness, memories, and mercy through Okera's unique blend of vivid imagery, precise meter, free verse, metaphor, dialect, and allusion.

More About the Author:
amazon.com/author/billye-okera-poetspeak

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Stumblin' Towards Calvary - Mini Book Trailer