We Are Phenomenal Women
Rev. Dr. Alice Hubbard Crenshaw, 8th Episcopal District
Turner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 719 Walthall St., in the City of Greenwood, Mississippi, sponsored a FREE Women’s Conference on August 12, 2023. The conference began promptly at 9 a.m. Randii Reaves, Licensed Massage Therapist, provided deep tissue massages to the first thirty-five (35) registrants, complements of the pastor. Attendees received a continental breakfast, hot lunch, free conference bags, shirts, and pens that declared “I’m a Phenomenal Woman,” along with other gifts and $25.00 gift cards with COVID-19 Vaccines and health tests at no cost. Turner welcomed seven presenters who shared valuable information with participants.
Kristi Cofer, Manager of Operations for the All of Us Research Program led by the National Institute of Health (NIH) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, Mississippi, presented its program as a meaningful effort to advance individualized prevention, treatment, and care for people of all backgrounds. The All of Us Research Program aims to help researchers understand why people get sick or stay healthy. They seek to improve communication regarding population research studies among rural Mississippi populations and build trust in the community.
Ella G. Jackson, Executive Director of Abundant Living Community Foundations of Congregational Health Nursing and Ministry, shared the foundation’s focus on ministering to the whole person in body, mind, and spirit the way God intends. Turner partnered with Dr. Alex Brooks and ONXY/CARE to provide a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic through which more than five hundred people, ages five years and up, received their shots between May 20 and August 12, 2023.
Tomeka Beamon presented My Brother’s Keeper’s (MBK) organizational infrastructure consisting of three complementary centers designed to create an integrated services approach to preventing, treating, and caring for health disparities that marginalize African American communities.
Pamela Hilgon of Guaranty Bank presented Credit Management Counseling Credit 101, sharing eight issues participants should focus on to improve financial health, increase wealth, and make wiser consumer choices.
Minister Gail P. Thompson, Esq.: Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Awareness.
Ja’Quilla Newsome, Director of Suicide Prevention for the Mississippi Department of Mental Health: Mental Health Awareness (Pandemic COVID-19) Newsome is a mental health therapist for youth in an intensive in-home program and a certified instructor for adults utilizing Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training.
Joyce McCoy, JRM Consulting, highlighted Medicare Preventative Health Services through Medicare and Medicaid Services, reinforcing free services provided through existing plans B & D.
Turner Chapel has taken the challenge to be the forerunner among African American Churches in Greenwood, Mississippi, to enlighten and empower all women, regardless of race, creed, or nationality, to be healthy, and this year marked the 13th Annual Phenomenal Women’s Conference, sponsored by the Rev. Dr. Crenshaw.
