OUT AND ABOUT 44 MAY 2023 www.goodnewsfl.org Good News • South Florida Edition The spirit of serving leadership has been at work in the student members of the TLT Club (Tomorrow’s Leaders Today) at Purpose Academy in Pompano Beach. TLT Club advisor Camryn Roth, team member of OneHope ministry, volunteers her time for club members to gather for bimonthly after school meetings. A mentor to the TLT Club students, Camryn helped them brainstorm how to apply serving leadership principles beyond club meetings. In their second year, TLT Club members impact the community with a twofold mission. First, members desiring to further their leadership and interpersonal development are raising TLT Club scholarship funds to participate in the July TLT STAND training. Their fundraising initiative launched with an after-school car wash on April 19th at OneHope’s headquarters and will continue online until the beginning of July. Second, student leaders conducted a beach clean-up event on April 26th as a way to serve their community. Visit TLTMovement.com/ STAND for more information and to donate toward scholarships. Award-winning Author and Speaker Elizabeth Brickman shared insight on true financial identity during the Masterpiece Women luncheon on April 20th at South Florida Bible College and Theological Seminary. Host of The Caring Advisor Podcast, Brickman explained how a simple shift in outlook or approach can positively affect your finances. She said there are five mindsets that can limit us, including a smallness identity, impoverished identity, comparison based, victim identity and unloved identity. “Financial identity comes from God alone and fromno other person or circumstance,” said Brickman. “Your true financial identity is grown up, much loved and powerful in Christ. Always make sure your selftalk is God-talk!” A movement of women pursuing authentic community, personal and professional excellence, and local and global impact for good, Masterpiece Women exists to empower and equip women to thrive as leaders, entrepreneurs, and world changers in a faith-based environment of authenticity and collaboration. Their next luncheon, on May 18 from 11:30 a.m.– 1 p.m., will feature Dr. Elizabeth King, a successful businesswoman, mental health expert, motivational speaker, founder and chief inspiration officer for the Suits, Stilettos and Lipstick (SSL) Foundation. Register at MasterpieceWomen.org. TLTTeens Activate as Serving Leaders MasterpieceWomen Focus on Financial Identity Elizabeth Brickman speaks at the Masterpiece Women luncheon. Purpose Academy TLT Club members: Saline, Geovana , Yesli, Dayane, Davi, Luis, Justin , Juan , Cindy and Camryn Roth, TLT Club advisor Habitat for Humanity of Broward recently celebrated the completion of 15 new two-story homes with a dedication ceremony at its historic “A Rick Case Habitat Community” in Pompano Beach. This is a record high, as this is the most homes Habitat Broward has ever dedicated in one event. “There are not enough words to describe how grateful we are. It has always been a dream of ours to become homeowners, and today Habitat’s supporters made this dream a reality,” said new homeowner, Lashicia Harris. “This is the result of so much hard work and heart,” Habitat Broward CEO and Executive Director Nancy Robin said in a statement. “I’mimmenselyproudof each and every one of our families for making today happen, and I’m sovery thankful for our sponsor the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, volunteers, construction team and other employees who made the completion of these homes possible.” South Florida is the nation’s most cost-burdened housing market in the nation with high home prices and low wages making homeownership out of reach for 94 percent of Broward residents. With assistance fromHabitat Broward, families are able to acquire modest homes with mortgages kept to 30 percent of household income. To qualify, individuals must start off by providing 300 hours of sweat equity to construct their homes and the other houses in the neighborhood. Families must also attend a year of homeownership classes and make a small down payment. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Broward brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. Learn more at habitatbroward.org Volunteers packed 2,400 women’s care kits Saturday at Food For The Poor’s first Hearts United Community Day event of 2023 in celebration of National Volunteer Week April 16 to 22. Buoyed by community spirit, 141 volunteers moved to music and cheered each other on in the charity’s Coconut Creek warehouse as they filled bags and boxes with essential items such as wash cloths, shampoo and feminine hygiene products to help the charity prepare for the upcoming hurricane season. Volunteers also wrote personal notes of encouragement that were tucked into the kits. Melisa Tchividjian, who volunteered with friends from New Covenant Church in Pompano Beach, said her church’s mission is to bring wholeness to the community in South Florida and beyond. “It’s so important for women to feel cared for, to feel loved,” Tchividjian said. “With these kits, we are saying, ‘We see you and we want to make sure that you feel loved and cared for’ and that’swhat Godwants for all of us. He sees our deepest needs. This reflects how God cares for us.” Miramar City Commissioner Maxwell B. Chambers was also among Saturday’s volunteers, as well as students from Florida Atlantic University’s Alpha Kappa Psi professional co-ed business fraternity and Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. FFTP prepositions relief kits every year to help in-country partners rapidly respond to disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes. This year, kits will be sent to theDominicanRepublic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, St. Lucia, andTrinidadandTobago, as well as kept on hand in case a disaster hits theUnited States. For information, visit www.FoodForThePoor.org. Habitat for Humanity of Broward Hosts Historic Dedication Ceremony Volunteers Pack Care Kits for Disaster Response 15 family group of new Habitat homeowners L to R: Sandy Aitken, Elizabeth Coldren, Sarah Dettmann and Melisa Tchividjian
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