Greetings from the American Cancer Society’s Rally for a Cure!
Our Rally date is Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., at the old National Guard armory building in Charleston. Please make plans to be there.
We’re asking for donations from our community. You may send them to Rally for a Cure, P.O. Box 971, Charles-ton, MS 38921, for as we know, cancer never sleeps.
As for the teams that usually help us, please be making plans for April 12 to assist in our Rally.
Our theme for this year’s Rally is ribbons in the sky for love, “A Rainbow Race for Love.”
Charleston Mayor Sedrick Smith will be our master of ceremony for the day.
The Rally will consist of a concession stand; silent auction; sweet cakewalk; booths where you may have your blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar checked; face painting; and a balloon liftoff at 12 noon.
Prior to the Rally on April 12, a walkathon will be held on the Shade Street Walking Trail behind the East Tallahatchie district office starting at 8 a.m. Mayor Smith (662-647-4171) and Lisa Moore (662-809-0208) are the contact persons.
To cancer survivors, ones with cancer and to the community, following is what the rainbow stands for when connecting with God.
In the book of Genesis, the ninth chapter and verses 13-16, the Bible says, “I set my rainbow in the cloud and it shall be for the side of the covenant between me and earth. It shall be when I bring a cloud over the Earth that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh The water shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the Earth.”
