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Food For The Spirit, by Minister Server

Peace and much love! The divinity in me salutes the divinity in you, word!

The spiritual gift for the month of DECEMBER is LIFE.

This is the time of year when we reflect on what we experienced this year and begin to prepare for the New Year. Your spiritual gift of LIFE gives you the ability to heal and restore anything in your existence that is not in proper alignment with your true self. When you draw upon this gift, you are activating the higher consciousness within you.

As you go about your daily existence you should be aware of the wonder of LIFE that is evenly present in you. Recognize how the detail, perfection, and operation of how your body parts work together as a expression of the LIFE of God within you! Everyday you should ask yourself, “am I living the LIFE I was born to live?”

Human beings are the only species that has the ability to affect its LIFE through various states of conscious thinking. That means your future depends on you, and how you think about your LIFE. You should always remember that you are the physical manifestation of a true and living God that is expressing through you!

Sometimes people get preoccupied with death and worry about what will happen to them when they make their transition from this physical realm of Earth. Don’t waste your thoughts, time or energy with that, LIFE is for the living, enjoy it fully! Even when your physical LIFE is over, your spiritual LIFE continues forever! You are a Spiritual being and Spirit ALWAYS returns to itself! It’s important to remember that LIFE is a journey, not a destination, it is a process of attainment and mastery that is ever evolving within you!

This month people all over the world will celebrate LIFE through various holidays such as, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa, what a blessing these holidays are! They give you the opportunity to spend time enjoying your family and friends while realizing all the blessings of your LIFE! During this time be careful not to get caught in the madness of the “holiday mass marketing machine”. It will have you running around trying to keep up with the latest “must have item” and will drain the physical, mental and financial LIFE right out of out!

As you take time to share these beautiful occasions with your family, friends and community,you have a wonderful opportunity to spread the joy, peace and love of LIFE that comes through each day, what a magnificent gift that truly is! Let your Light shine so people will see the LIFE of God in you, Word!

Forever Hiphop,
Minister Server - The HipHop Life Coach
Temple of Hiphop,
HIPHOP Ministries, Inc.
www.hiphopminstries.org
404-425-9629 Ofc.

Note: This column is a contribution to the Hip-Hop Association from Minister Server. Any commentary regarding the views expressed here should be forwarded directly to Minister Server. The Hip-Hop Association respects and appreciates respect for a multitude of views and perspectives, and share an interest in the overall growth of the Hip-Hop community. �

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Hip-Hop Association is currently recruiting volunteers for 2008. We are looking for college students that want to work in sales, marketing/promotions, website development, fund raising, grant writing, research, and office administration. Candidates should be enrolled in school and are need school credits or work experience.They should have basic computer skills, reliable access to a computer, self-motivated, and have a passion for Hip-Hop and community service.

For more details please visit www.hiphopassociation.org/work.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER:
We recently held a successful Elements event on the 5th of December. The event brought in 300+ people and raised $800 for our future project. We were told by the student union staff that it was the most successful event a student organization has ever organized. We also also collected a ton of canned food and got a lot more people interested in learning the elements. - Tom

CAL STATE LOS ANGELES:
CSULA HipHop Congress Presents: 1st Annual HipHop International Festival. It went down December 7th, 2006 @ The CSULA Golden Eagle Ballroom. The whole entire purpose of the festival is show how ALL nationalities, races, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, and everyone period can get together for hiphop… -Laquan

WAYNE STATE:
This is Gerald Terrell Vice President of Hip Hop Congress Wayne State Chapter, Detroit MI as far as updates we are moving forward quite smoothly and things are really looking up. We are doing heavy recruitment right now so we can build our member base. We are holding our second mingle session on December 13, 2006 venue TBA. We are inviting all of our students and residents of Detroit out to this event to push the name of Hip Hop Congress. That’s going to be the end of this semester for us and trust me we have big things ahead for Winter 2007!!!

WASH U:
We are getting our budget mess figured out, we got a pretty good line up for next semester including One Be Lo, Brother Ali, Screenings of Rize, an STL showcase, and a round table on prisons. Other cosponsored events include the Chicago Afro Beat Project, the Eidan Reichel Project, and the Elena Rubin trio. - Yoni

USC:
Just a little facebook fun with our HHC group. We are getting people to post their favorite video via link to youtube on our group page. Finals are around. Nothing too crazy, just some procrastination fun.

WILLAMETTE:
What up? Willamette is holding it down in the northwest , recently we put on a farewell party to our Tokyo international students who are going back home at the end of the month. We sent ‘em off with the hip hop vibe, with DJ’s on the table, and a couple of our very own performing. As far as plans we are hustling up the university to get some money for a the Black Brown Unity Tour which all ya’ll should look into it. Hope everyone has a good Christmas. - Austin

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
The IU Chapter is continuing planning for our 7th Annual Awareness Festival scheduled for late February. The past 2 weeks have been weeks of relationship building with other student organizations as well as local businesses/non-profit community groups. We established a strong bond with the African Student Association as well as the Global Living and Learning Community.

In other news, there is currently a Ugandan Rapper/Activist in the LA area that we are trying to bring to IU in February with the African Student Association. His name is Saba Saba and he is interested in doing performances/lectures/panel discussions and has already been to Syracuse and Penn State. You can contact him through myspace at http://www.myspace.com/krazynative. I believe he also has some type of documentary out too. - Tim

CHICAGO COMMUNITY:
Peace, On December,22nd and 23rd the Community Chapters of Englewood Chicago and Cabrini Green will be holding a Hip Hop X-mas Cook-out for the homeless and needy. - Willie J.R. Fleming

LINK OF THE WEEK:
This ran in Rolling Stone this week. Its a site that is constantly digitizing old concert audio from a former sound man. Its free (for now), so if you want to hear some great audio from 60s - early 80s of everyone from Jimi Hendrix to The Clash this is a great site.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/

Peace
Berk