LFCDC's "New HIV Intitiative" for the New Year!

Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation (LFCDC) will be adding free HIV counseling and testing services to its ongoing HIV training and community outreach activities in 2010. Thanks to technical and training assistance from the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium and the generosity of the Central Germantown Council, testing supplies and space have been provided to LFCDC for its HIV counseling and testing activities in the Northwest section of Philadelphia.

Beginning Wednesday, January 20,2010, LFCDC will be providing HIV counseling and testing services on Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday mornings from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., and Monday evenings from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00p.m., at Vernon House, located at 5800 Germantown Avenue in Vernon Park, Germantown and Chelten Avenues.

State certified HIV counselors will provide confidential counseling and testing, as well as health related resource referrals on a walk-in or appointment basis. LFCDC's weekly outreach to schools and community organizations in the Germantown/Mt.Airy area, as well as its special HIV education programs will continue throughout 2010.

Mt. Airy's Local Art Exhibit to Feature Paintings and Sculptures by Nancy-Ellen

"A juried art exhibition in the many shops, cafe and public spaces of Mt. Airy" is the invitation to all by the Mount Airy Business Association who is hosting their MT AIRY'S FOCUS ON LOCAL ART EXHIBIT November 6th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and November 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Featured will be local artists who will have their work displayed on and along the Mt. Airy Business corridor which runs from the 6300 to the 7000 block of Germantown Avenue. Shops and businesses that run into the avenue within that designated area are participating as well.

Two of the artists featured will be our very own Nancy-Ellen, who recently published her first novel "Nana's Wicker Back". Her sculptures and paintings will be at North by Northwest and Blackbone Gallery, both located in the 7000 and 7100 blocks of Germantown Avenue. In addition, Nancy's son Lamont Wilson will be showcasing his portraits and landscape photographs.

This is a wonderful opportunity to get out, enjoy the autumn season with a casual stroll through scenic Mt. Airy and check out the great works of art created by Philadelphia's artists See you there!

Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge Hosts local author Nancy-Ellen's Book Signing!

On Saturday September 26th at 6:00pm Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge (located at 6143 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, PA) opened it's doors to host their first book signing.

Local community activist and artist Nancy-Ellen Churchville, President and COO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation featured, read an excerpt and signed purchased copies of her first novel "Nana's Wicker Back", a story of a lost woman who was commissioned by her ancestors to settle a matter that had been haunting their family for generations.

The atmosphere was charged with energy and excitement as friends, family, customers and business affiliates poured through the doors of Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge seeking to purchase or receive a signature of Nancy-Ellen's novel, as Ms. Bridget-Word Cunningham, proprietor of the facility graciously received guests and facilitated the event with the utmost of grace and ease.

Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge is a state-of-the-arts, and cutting edge beauty lounge. It is ahead of it's time, as the owner and staff members rejuvenate and educate their clients to incorporate beauty and health into a life-long regimen amidst a backdrop and atmosphere of total serenity. Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge was inspired to elevate the consciousness of well-being by embracing the art of grooming while combining it with total relaxation.

Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation wants to thank all who came out to support Nancy-Ellen at that most memorable event and especially thank Bridget-Word Cunningham and her excellent staff for hosting the affair!

GGBA Explores Creation of "Green Business District" in Germantown

John Elliott Churchville, Chairman/CEO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation and Interim President of The Greater Germantown Business Association, Inc. (GGBA) announced today that the GGBA has engaged in a process to join with other small historic communities (The Germantown Avenue Business Corridor is a National Historic Landmark) around the state to form the Network of Urban Ecology Communities (NUEC). “Our strategic partners in this endeavor are the School of Architecture of Philadelphia University, along with Lafayette College, and Easton University in Easton, PA,” Churchville said

Churchville noted that “These academic institutions are in the early stages of developing an Institute for the Network that will coordinate the in-depth studies of Network communities to provide the baseline data necessary for planning and carrying out forward-looking ecological projects that will serve as national models of urban ecological community development.”

Initial participants in the Network will include Germantown (through the GGBA), East Falls, the West Ward Urban Ecology Project of Easton, PA, the five Upper Schuylkill Historic Main Street towns, Ridgeway, and the Uptown section of Harrisburg, PA. “The objectives of the Network are to join efforts in creating ‘green collar jobs,’ unique Green Businesses as models for economic development, and the development of urban housing rehabilitation and weatherization projects that integrate Green building and historic rehabilitation standards that are both practical and affordable to low and moderate income homeowners within the ambit of the Network,” Churchville noted.

Indicating a strategic shift in the GGBA’s focus, Churchville added: “The GGBA’s specific focus for the immediate future will be on investigating the feasibility and creation of a ‘Green Business District’ along Germantown Avenue near the Town Hall Project. This will involve visiting selected national Green business chains and encouraging them to locate stores in Germantown, recruiting Philadelphia area Green businesses to relocate to Germantown, and helping existing Germantown businesses to take the necessary steps to ‘Go Green’ in incremental, affordable steps in order to benefit from the growing national economic trend that is shifting to Green products and services.”

Book Release and Signing!

Philadelphia native painter and sculptor Nancy-Ellen has now ventured into a new form of self-expression!

On July 24, 2009 she released her first novel "Nana's Wicker Back" and is enjoying the positive feedback and results of her endeavor. "Nana's Wicker Back" is a provocative tale about a lost woman who is commissioned by her ancestors to settle a matter that has haunted their family for generations.

On September 26,2009 at 6:00pm, Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge (6143 Germantown Avenue, Phila., PA) will host and showcase Nancy-Ellen for her 1st book signing. All are invited to come out and celebrate her latest accomplishment.

Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge was inspired to elevate the consciousness of well-being by embracing the art of grooming combined with relaxation. Their desires have always been to educate and interact with their guests through teaching some of the very basic and the not so basic skills of beauty. Their beauty lounge houses their very own cosmetic line along with retail and educational platforms to train and assist guests in their desires to learn more.

Canvas Soup Beauty Lounge is located close to the corners of Germantown Avenue and Tulpehocken Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

For more details about the book signing event, contact Nancy-Ellen at (215) 848-8511 or Bridget-Word Cunningham at (215) 991-6009

LIBERATION FELLOWSHIP CDC OFFERS TWO LEADERSHIP TRAINING SEMINARS AT 440 N. BROAD STREET - FREE!!

Leading in Difficult Times

A series of Two Leadership Training Seminars Designed for Re-Thinking and Re-Tooling for Today’s Issues, Problems and Opportunities

Facilitated by: John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation
www.lfcdc.com

Each 1 ½-hour interactive leadership training seminar provides specific insights for developing enhanced leadership skills that are required for successful navigation of movements, institutions, organizations, families, and one’s self through hard times.

Session 1: Leading from the Bottom: Making My Change in Changing Times Wednesday, September 9, 2009
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
440 North Broad Street, Room 1169

Session 2: Leading from the Margin: Changing My Behavior
Thursday, September 10, 2009
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
440 North Broad Street, Room 1169

Leading from the Bottom: Making My Change in Changing Times

In this first leadership training seminar, participants will focus on personal identity and purpose issues (Who am I? What is my mission in life?) These issues will be presented in the context of the present global economic crisis. Participants will explore fundamental leadership concepts and learn the basic steps necessary to recreate, reposition and redeploy themselves for optimum service to family, community and society.

Leading from the Margin: Changing My Behavior

In this second leadership training seminar, participants will focus on developing positive behaviors that will move them from where they are to where they wish to be in order to maximize their full human potential. Participants will also learn the basic steps to forming positive leadership habits and will explore their contagious nature. In addition, they will learn how to use their own growth and development as the catalyst for encouraging people around them to do the same.

New Book Releases by Liberation Fellowship CDC Principals

Nana’s Wicker Back by Nancy-Ellen
ISBN: 0-7414-5517-X

NANCY-ELLEN is President and COO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation and co-producer/co-host of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a weekly radio journal that focuses on sustainable economic development, HIV/AIDS education, environmental justice issues and the arts and culture. She is a writer, painter, sculptor, teacher and entrepreneur who is a native of Philadelphia, PA. Her new novel has just been released by Infinity Publishing. Entitled Nana’s Wicker Back, the book is a provocative tale of one lost woman who is commissioned by her ancestors to settle a serious matter that has haunted their family for generations.

The book is immediately available by accessing the following link:

It will also be available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Leadership Lessons from Exodus by John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D.
ISBN: 0-7414-5490-4

JOHN ELLIOTT CHURCHVILLE, Ph.D. is Chairman and CEO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation and co-producer/co-host of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a weekly radio journal that focuses on sustainable economic development, HIV/AIDS education, environmental justice issues and the arts and culture. He maintains a law practice and a leadership training and organizational development consulting firm in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Churchville’s new book, entitled Leadership Lessons from Exodus has just been released by Infinity Publishing. Leadership Lessons from Exodus is a Leadership Development Bible Commentary that discovers practical leadership lessons from the first 14 chapters of Exodus that can be applied to the everyday work of community outreach organizers and social activists.

The book is immediately available by accessing the following link:

It will also be available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

So Successful WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN!

In regcognition of HIV/AIDS Awareness Month and because of the successful turnout of our HIV/AIDS screening in April, LIBERATION FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is conducting another seminar and screening event TUESDAY evening, JUNE 3o, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, 35 W. Chelten Avenue from 6:00 to 7:00pm.

We are offering a $20.00 GIFT CARD from the FRESH GROCER to the first 30 people who show up for testing! In addition to the test, participants will learn more about this dreaded disease through a presentation called "HIV...The Thief". Certified testers will be available to answer questions and provide guidance and literature to all who attend.

For more information, contact Nancy at (215) 848-8511 (please leave a message).

Leadership Training Seminars Designed for Re-Thinking and Re-Tooling for Today's Challenges as well as Opportunities

"Leading from the Bottom": Making My Change in Changing Times

is the first seminar of a five part series being held at Episcopal Church of the Advocate 18th and Fr. Paul Washington Avenew (formally Diamond Street) beginning Monday, June 22, 2009 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

In this first seminar facilitated by John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., participants will focus on personal identity and purpose issues (Who am I, and what is my purpose?). These issues will be presented in the context of the present global economic crisis. Participants will learn the basic steps necessary to recreate, reposition and redeploy themselves for optimum service to family, community and society.

Each 2-hour interactive leadership training seminar will provide specific insights for developing enhanced leadership skills that are required for successful navigation of movements, institutions, organizations and families through hard times.

Future topics (dates to be announced) will be:

Leading from the Margin: Changing My Behavior

Leading from the Center: Changing the Way I Think

Leading from the Outside: Creating Strategic Partnerships

Leading from the Top: Leveraging the Present to Create the Future

MALE STUDENT MENTORING INITIATIVE for Qualified Youth

FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009

MALE STUDENT MENTORING INITIATIVE for Qualified Youth

Liberation Fellowship CDC is offering its Male Student Mentoring Initiative pilot mentoring program to 8th and 11th grade male youths who qualify for its 6 week course. The program will provide stipends to the students and their school as well as a stipend to their parent or guardian.

The project seeks to provide leadership training and mentoring infused with HIV/AIDS and STI awareness training to separate groups of 10 middle and 10 senior high school males.

Personal responsibility and accountability for being progressive leaders and positive role models in the schools and larger community will be stressed.

STD and HIV/AIDS education strategies will be explored as a part of the students work product which will require them to produce an education event for their parents and peers at the end of the course. The Pilot runs from May 1, 2009 to June 18, 2009.

Read more about this fabulous opportunity by visiting our website at: www.lfcdc.com (you'll find our MSMI Pilot Program brochure under "Packages").

To apply or recieve more information, please contact: John or Nancy before April 30th at (215) 848-8511 (please leave a message).

FREE HIV/AIDS TESTING CAN PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLE!

Were doing it again! Liberation Fellowship is conducting a free HIV screening and education service for our Germantown residents. The last time we did it (in February) it was a real success.

The screening will be held Thursday evening, April 30, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at the FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN GERMANTOWN 35 W. Chelten Avenue (corner of Germantown & Chelten Aves.)

The first 17 people to test will receive a free $20.00 gift card to the Fresh Grocer.

Come as one, come as a family * and receive 2 gift cards! If youcome early, you'll leave informed, tested and paid!

*(proof of same address is enough)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Liberation Fellowship Is On The AIR!

Liberation Fellowship CDC is proud to announce its broadcast of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, a radio journal that focuses on our community's health, environment, sustainable economic development, and the arts and culture.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is sponsored by Circle of Care, the primary publicly funded HIV care system for families in Philadelphia.

Listen to our broadcast on Wednesdays, at 2:00 pm on WNWR 1540 AM. You can access the program through streaming aduio at www.wnwr.com. You can also go there to listen to our latest archived broadcast.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is a production of Liberation Felowship CDC where we are targeting community development one block at a time!