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Pass The Mic

The Active Witness Challenge

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Run or Walk 5K, 10K, 26 Miles or 50 Miles Throughout SeptemberUpload your distances & photos daily to win a prize: 9/1 - 9/30 The Active Witness Challenge is a virtual fundraiser to commemorate the 1956 March on Selma. It is not remiss that we are in the midst of our generation's Civil Rights Movement. Whether participants walk, run, or support through a donation, we have an opportunity to be active about our witness. We run because they walked. This fundraising challenge is for supporters to run or walk throughout September 2021 #werunbecausetheywalked  #activewitnesschallenge link: 2021 The Active Witness Challenge (elitefeats.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of past my dynamic voices for a diverse

0:16.5

church power by the witness a black Christian collective. I'm your host Tyler Burns. You

0:20.7

can follow me on Twitter and Instagram. Please do not forget about the Graham at Burns

0:24.4

clan follow at your own risk and joining me today is one of my favorite people to work

0:31.7

with and work around. She is the Reverend doctor Shannon poke. She is the executive director

0:38.4

of the witness foundation. Shannon, thank you so much for being back on past the mic today.

0:44.3

Thank you for having me. Man, it's good to talk with you. Absolutely. You know, it feels

0:49.9

so weird because we've never met in person. So it's like, oh, hey, you, you know, we've

0:55.2

never seen each other in person. They'll thank the pandemic, thank the pandemic. And so it's

1:00.1

just so funny whenever we connect like this. Yeah, I know, but I always feel like, you know,

1:05.4

what we do get together, we're going to get a good space game. Go with, you know, we're

1:09.3

going to hang out. I just I need I might need a little too little too.

1:19.2

You know, I'm saying because my household you don't be gambling. You know what I'm saying?

1:25.0

So, you know, I need a little little tutorial, a little, a little quick tutorial. See, I

1:30.5

was raised Methodist. I didn't get to be Pentecostal till later. So I'm not a card. I'm

1:34.1

going to cards. I'm going to almost done this stuff. See, but I look. Okay. This, this,

1:39.7

look, people don't understand. They're like, I don't know how to play space. I'm like,

1:43.1

we couldn't even have a deck of cards. Okay. It was Uno. Okay. Uno was a Lord's game.

1:49.1

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's playing a face 10. Okay. All right.

1:55.0

Thanks to, yes. Listen. So it is so good to hear your voice because we are going to talk

2:00.9

about something that is incredible. And I'm really excited about it. Probably a few months

2:05.1

ago, you reached out to me. We're having these conversations. You were talking about this plan

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