The newsletter summarizes the activities of Summerhill Community Ministries which serves youth in inner-city Atlanta. It recognizes students for academic honors and perfect attendance. It discusses emphasizing reading and tutoring from volunteers and older students. It highlights special moments like children singing and a volunteer baking cakes. It requests prayers for a child's health issues and for their van. It promotes sponsoring children for their summer camp program.

1. Summerhill
Community Ministries SERVING INNER-CITY YOUTH & FAMILIES IN
Newsletter ~ March 2010 THE DOWNTOWN ATLANTA AREA
Congratulations - First Semester Honor Students!
We are so proud of you!
Principals List: Perfect Attendance:
Joshua, Jermaine, Niqua, & Janaiah. Myleondre, Dre'Leon, Donta, Joshua, Niqua, Jermaine & Casey
Reading
This school year we have really put
a lot of emphasis on reading. We
want our kids starting Middle
School reading “on grade level”.
Our volunteers have been reading
with the After School Program kids
year after year. Sally Doster, one of
our faithful volunteers for over 7
years now, asked a question one
Thursday, “Who wants to read?!” I
A/B Honor Roll: heard several little voices say at
Myleondre, Donta, Malika, Nushar, & Gemeka one time, “I do! I do!” They raced
to the bookshelf to pick out books
and sat on the floor, ready to read
to Ms. Sally.
This year, middle and high school
students have also taken on the
challenge to read with our lower
grade level kids. Please pray for
the students as they prepare for the
CRCT testing, which will require
lots of reading.

2. March 2010 ~ Page 2 Summerhill Community Ministries, Inc.
Special Moments
Tyquantis, Christian and Niqua hold up sheet music, so that Ms.
Sally can read the words also, and sing “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the
Lord God Almighty, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord” (A song they
sing during our Monday worship time with Ms. Anna).
Working in a class room next door with 10 high school and middle
school students, we hear the little voices preciously singing this
worship song and everyone stops to listen in amazement at how
sincere and sweet these voices were. It was a priceless moment.
Ms Marcia came to us through a
wonderful organization called The Cake Angel Prayer Requests
Operation Front Line. After the six
week cooking class ended, we
realized how much Ms. Marcia Tykyia is a 9 year old girl who has
had bonded with quite a few of been a part of our afterschool
our kids and she continued to program and summer day camp for
hang out with us. We pretty much the past 4 years. She has suffered
adopted her as our community with migraine headaches for a
grandmother. She graciously couple of years now. This school
bakes homemade cakes for our year, we have had to take her home
monthly birthday celebrations. several days because the
She takes the requests of the headaches were so unbearable.
children for birthday cake Most children medications did not
themes. This month, was give her relief. She was finally
“SpongeBob.” Jamario, a 10 year diagnosed with migraines. Lately
old boy in our ASP yells out, “that the headaches have been severe.
lady sho can bake cakes!!” After an MRI and other tests were
another child says, “They tastes done, her mother was told that
good too!” She is now called “The Tykyia has fluid on her brain.
Cake Angel” of Summerhill. Surgery is planned for mid April.
Mom is understandably afraid for
this type of surgery for her
daughter. We are asking for
special prayers.
Pray for Justina’s husband
(Emanuel), as he has agreed to
enter a rehab program.
Our “Old Faithful” blue van is on its
last leg. Please pray that it will
make it through the summer. We
are also praying for another new or
used van for the future.
Our kids look forward to the first Thursday in each month, because that is when the McColgan & Company will
bring them a sack full of goodies for snack time. Mike Hunter, owner of McColgan & Company, and his staff
have helped in the past during Christmas season. This year they have come and spent even more time with the
Summerhill kids. They not only bring a hardy snack, but they tutor, read and play with the kids. It's always a
treat to see them enter the doors. The kids usually welcome them with a huge hurray!
P. O. Box 160294 • Atlanta, Georgia 30316 • 404-964-4604 • justinascm@juno.com • http:www.summerhillcm.com

3. March 2010 ~ Page 3
Middle School Girls
Teen Talk Sponsor a Child/Job Trainer/Camp Teacher for
Summerhill Community Ministries, Inc. - Camp 2010
One day in the after school
program, the boys decided to go With summer quickly approaching, to receive Christ into their lives. Please
outside to play basketball for children in Summerhill, Peoplestown, consider giving a special gift to one of
their free time. The middle Mechanicsville, and Grant Park will be our urban youth this summer by
school girls chose to stay inside in need of constructive activities. With sponsoring them for camp.
and started a conversation with your help these children can
participate in SCM’s Inc. Summer While we ask the parents to contribute
Justina about a girl in the school Camp. $25.00 to send their child to camp, the
who tried to commit suicide. actual cost is $390.00 per child for the
Our camp is a quality, God centered seven weeks. You can sponsor a child
This was a person they were fairly camp where the young people can for one week for $65.00, for the whole
close to. Tearfully, they shared learn the Bible, receive love and summer for $390.00, or with any
how she had sent a picture of encouragement from staff and caring amount you wish to give.
herself to her boyfriend. He sent volunteers, and participate in
enrichment activities and trips. In the Volunteers are also needed to provide
it to his friends and it quickly
past years, many children have prayed meals, snacks, chaperone trips, and
passed like wildfire to almost teach enrichment activities.
everyone in the school and on to
several other schools. The
backlash was so devastating that ____ YES, I want to volunteer this summer ____________________________________
she felt she could not bear it. She (area of interest)
unsuccessfully, tried to kill herself Name _____________________________________________________________________
by cutting her wrists.
Address: __________________________________________________________________
We all know this terrible growing
trend as “sexting.” It is going on City: ________________________ State: __________ Zip: _________________
among all age groups more than Phone: ____________________________ _____ YES, please mail me the newsletter
we can imagine! Justina went on
to tell these girls to love and _____ YES, save postage and EMAIL the newsletter to me at:
protect themselves enough not to
Email: ____________________________________________________________
ever take inappropriate pictures
of themselves and send them to
ANYONE. Let’s pray for our kids _____ Yes, I want to sponsor a Child/Job Trainer/Camp Teacher for Camp!
and our parents that they will
openly talk to their kids about this ____ $ 65.00 One Week ____ $1,850.00 Job Trainer
dangerous, growing problem. ____ $ 390.00 All Summer ____ $2,250.00 Camp Teacher
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ____ $ ___________________ Other
This conversation led to one of the Checks should be made out to “Summerhill Community Ministries” with
girls, age 12, sharing an incident “Summer Camp” specified in the memo line. All donations are tax deductible
that happened to her. She was
raped by a family member. She
told her mother and the situation
was dealt with, but naturally she is
still going through some
psychological issues. She has
Please consider a camp sponsorship.
been diagnosed with being
bipolar. She expressed that she As of the printing of this newsletter
doesn’t want to be on medication
for the rest of her life or live a
promiscuous life. Please pray for
we have $0 for summer camp.
her.
P. O. Box 160294 • Atlanta, Georgia 30316 • 404-964-4604 • justinascm@juno.com • http:www.summerhillcm.com

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Snaps of Special Moments
Wrapping presents that the kids have earned by doing chores at home and Ms Marcia treats kids to
serving in their community. A BIG Thanks to all of our Christmas Sponsors! Universoul Circus
Anna, Taniya and Joshua read clues as they Laura, from Desire Street Ministries,
search to find the Pot of Gold Alexis and Christain, find the Pot of Gold!
Annual Easter egg decorating
Creating Valentine ginger bread houses
P. O. Box 160294 • Atlanta, Georgia 30316 • 404-964-4604 • justinascm@juno.com • http:www.summerhillcm.com