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Pee Dee Baptist Association Health Coalition Meeting

by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

The Pee Dee Baptist Association Health Coalition, a joint effort of the Association along with Partners in Health and Wholeness, takes place April 3 at 7 p.m at St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church, 198 Gaines St., Aberdeen (Jackson Hamlet). Snacks will be provided, and the event is free and open to the public.

There are 32 churches within the Pee Dee Baptist Association, spanning several counties.  President Mary Swann and Dean Yvonne McGraw have worked to form a health coalition to promote health as a faith issue. Currently two churches have become PHW-certified since the Health Coalition was formed in January 2012, Popular Springs Missionary Baptist Church and Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church. Both are at the silver level.

For more information about the Pee Dee Baptist Association please contact Yvonne McGraw at Yvonne McGraw <ymcgraw3@yahoo.com or 910-997-2468.

–Joy Williams, Regional Consultant, Partners in Health and Wholeness

 

 

 

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.

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