{"id":4462,"date":"2014-10-13T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2014-10-13T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:10:09","slug":"jsu-kicks-off-homecoming-by-praising-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2014\/10\/13\/jsu-kicks-off-homecoming-by-praising-god\/","title":{"rendered":"JSU kicks-off homecoming by praising God"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Guy King
\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tradition, fellowship and worship is how Jackson State University kicked off its 2014 Homecoming on Oct. 5<\/p>\n

Pastor Dwayne K. Pickett, Sr. and the New Jerusalem Church family provided an uplifting message and helped JSU rock the Rose E. McCoy auditorium with praise as the Blueprint: One Tiger, One Roar celebration began.<\/p>\n

Jackson State was founded in 1877 as Natchez Seminary and in keeping with tradition,\u00a0 this homecoming began with a worship service.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing a church service to campus was a great idea because there are so many other events that are happening throughout the campus this week, it\u2019s only right to saturate the campus with Gods\u2019 glory to kick off homecoming the proper way,\u201d said Brittany Moman,\u00a0 a New Jerusalem church member.<\/p>\n

The music ministry began with a song entitled \u201cFill Me Up,\u201d as praise dancers performed with the choir.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music ministry was phenomenal. They gave God the praise. The ministry was energetic, entertaining and they really got the crowd involved in the worship experience,\u201d said Christy Lee a junior early childhood education major from Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n

After greetings from 2014 Student Government Association President Keonte Turner and 2014 Miss Jackson State University Anissa Butler, Pastor Pickett began his sermon.<\/p>\n

In his topic: The Power of Forgiveness, Pickett stated that forgiveness was difficult, but once\u00a0 people learn to forgive each other, God will forgive you.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people in my life that have done me wrong, and I\u2019ve been holding grudges that are doing nothing but hurting me in the end. After listening to this sermon, I realized that I need to actually forgive them without wanting anything in return. I need to finally move on from that hurt and work on being happy with the life God gave me,\u201d said Kanika Williams, a junior education major from Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n

Ending the service with an alter call, Pastor Pickett also gave the students an invitation to attend New Jerusalem Church as well as find Christ.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the fact that my church came to JSU,\u201d said Justin Roach, a freshman industrial technology major from Jackson, Miss. Native. \u201cI felt the message that was preached and it really was a great way to start my first homecoming as a JSU student. I took Pastor Pickett\u2019s advice and began to ask for many of my peer\u2019s forgiveness as well as others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guy King Staff Writer Tradition, fellowship and worship is how Jackson State University kicked off its 2014 Homecoming on Oct. 5 Pastor Dwayne K. Pickett, Sr. and the New Jerusalem Church family provided an uplifting message and helped JSU rock the Rose E. McCoy auditorium with praise as the Blueprint: One Tiger, One Roar celebration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}