Krissy Reinagel placed second in the St. Louis County Library’s “Seeking Harmony and Empowerment through Words: A Teen Essay/ Oratorical Competition,” Feb. 26, 2010.  Her essay was based on an interview of Curtis May.  The winner was a high school senior and third place was a high school junior.  Krissy is an 8th grade student.  Among the judges was a Toastmaster President.  The oratorical competition brought teens and their families from all over the city to express their views on Black History in the open and hospitable environment of the library.

Krissy Reinagel, third from left

On May 2 ORM conducted a training session in St. Louis, MO.

We have had a chapter there for @ 4 years and did some follow-up, training and mentoring.
It was well-received as we reviewed our MISSION, VISION AND CORE VALUES!
The whole session was charged with enthusiastic, open discussion about what we need to be doing to reach our divided communities.
The Chapter Leader is Pam Harris, she is assited by Carla Reinegal, Juanita Carpenter, Lila Bauman and Sherman Downs. Pam commented that the meeting was vey helpful. Renewing our vision and purpose always seems to help! I gave a sermon on Sunday on AS THE EAGLE STIRS HER NEST. Krissy played beautifully

ORM Workshop,
On April 4-5, 2009 the Greensboro Christian Fellowship Congregation hosted a Reconciliation Workshop, Discipleship Class and Worship Service. It was in response to an incident of road-rage and racial tension.
The worshop and services included church members and guests, Blacks, Whites and Hispanic. It was well received and a lot of healing began to take place as a number of people shared their experiences.
ORM Chapter Leader George Hart from Cincinatti joined us and participated, along with his daughter Erin.

Feedback: “I enjoyed all aspects of the workshop. The ideas were extremely informative and the free format
and platform for members to express their trials was an excellent segway for follow-up sermon on Sunday.”

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