{"id":1482,"date":"2021-09-02T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2021-09-02T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:53:22","slug":"recognitions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Recognitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WISE Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I,\nKaren Payne, have served as the chairwoman of the Recognition Committee for the\npast 11 years. When I started it was just the Robe of Achievement Committee,\nbut 3 years ago another the Women In Service Everywhere award (or WISE) was\nadded so the committee became the Recognition Committee.  Serving with me on the committee are Janet\nButler and Marcy Kersten. This will be our final presentation as we are stepping\ndown to allow others the joy of serving you in this way. The Women\u2019s Board\ndecided not to make awards last year since there was no in person conference.\nWe were hoping to be able to be together this year, but since that isn\u2019t\nhappening we will announce our choice for the two Recognition awards by video.\nI\u2019ll start with the WISE award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year we are honoring Sharon Gaye Daily from the South East Atlanta Seventh Day Baptist Church in McDonough, GA as the recipient of the Women In Service Everywhere award. Deaconess Sharon Gaye was born and raised in Jamaica, gave her life to God at an early age and has never looked back. She is committed to her husband, family and church. Deaconess Sharon Gaye is a diligent and hardworking woman of God that shares her love of God with all. She is also a compassionate, righteous, intercessory prayer warrior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deaconess\nSharon Gaye was nominated by her Vessel of Honor Women\u2019s Ministry because she\ndemonstrates on a daily basis the qualities and characteristics of a WISE\nwoman. Her genuine smile, humbleness and love for others can be seen and felt\nwhenever you are in her presence. The work she does within the church, the\nsurrounding community and afar represents what one should do when professing to\nbe a part of the kingdom of God. She goes above and beyond to assist others and\nis deeply and greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deaconess\nSharon Gaye wears many hats and wears them well. She is the leader of the\nEducation Department, Prayer Team, Active members and Visitors systems\nupdating, Vacation Bible School and Senior Ministry. She works hard within the\nchurch\u2019s pantry, which is open on Wednesdays and Sundays ensuring food pick-ups\nare done on time and does the pick-ups on Mondays herself. She prepares all the\nnecessary documents, as well as greeting and interacting with those who come to\nthe pantry. Each year she prepares the team and church areas to be used for\nVacation Bible School, a spiritual learning and fun time for children, both\nwithin the church and the surrounding communities. Every Tuesday she spends the\nmajority of the day reaching out to the elderly, which includes lunch\ngatherings and other fun activities. She also works alongside her husband with\ntheir Healing House Ministry in Georgia and Pastor\u2019s Ministry in Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister\nDaily is a precious jewel, humble, loving and a sincere woman of God. The\nRecognitions Committee is pleased to name Sharon Gaye Daily as the recipient of\nthe 2021 WISE Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robe of Achievement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now for the 2021 Robe of Achievement recipient. The committee chose a woman who has served our denomination and her church for many years. She is a deaconess and Sabbath School teacher for her local church and served on the Women\u2019s Board and General Council for the denomination. We are pleased to award the Robe of Achievement to Althea Greene Rood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Althea\nserved alongside her pastor husband, Dale, in Waterford, CT and Westerly, RI before\nmoving to Dodge Center where they served until his retirement 10 years ago.\nThey are both still active in the church serving in many capacities. Althea and\nDale celebrated 53 years of marriage on June 30. They are the parents of Kristin\n(Mrs. Andrew Camenga) and Jeff and the grandparents of three. Althea has tried to retire from teaching Math\nat the neighboring high school, but her love for helping young people excel has\nkept her going back again and again. She also tutors and teaches ACT Prep. Her\nlove of young people also shows in the number of camps she has counseled, years\nshe directed and taught SCSC training, served as project director, prayer\npartner and hostess. But her involvement in SCSC didn\u2019t start there; she was in\nthe 2nd<\/sup> team of students that served our church in Metairie,\nLouisiana. I think she has participated in every aspect of SCSC that there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her local\nchurch, Anchor of Hope, in Dodge Center, MN she has been a Bible Study leader,\nTreasurer, Assistant Treasurer, held various roles in the Ladies Aid, musician,\nmember of the worship team, Missionary advocate, member of the prayer team and\nWomen\u2019s Retreat leader. She has also led retreats for other churches in our\ndenomination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the\ndenomination level besides serving as president of the Women\u2019s Society from\n2009 to 2014 (which included serving on CLT) she was president of the General\nConference in 1991, served on General Council six years and is president of\nNorth Central Association this year. She has worked in Pre-con camps, association\ncamps and served on numerous committees both for the denomination, Women\u2019s\nBoard and locally, and the list could go on and on. When does this lady sleep?\nI don\u2019t think she does!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was\nlooking for a scripture to close with and knew that Althea really likes The Message<\/em>.   I have my mom, Muriel Osborn\u2019s, copy so was\nlooking at it to see what I could find. There was a bookmark in Proverbs 4. She\nloved to underline passages and this one seemed to be just what I was looking\nfor. The ways of right-living people glow\nwith light; the longer they live, the brighter they shine. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found\nanother bookmark that had a quote by George MacDonald that exemplifies Althea\u2019s\nlife. Whatever God gives you to do, Do it\nas well as you can. This is the best possible preparation for what He may want\nyou to do next.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is with\ngreat pleasure that we award the 2021 Robe of Achievement to Althea Greene\nRood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WISE Award I, Karen Payne, have served as the chairwoman of the Recognition Committee for the past 11 years. When I started it was just the Robe of Achievement Committee, but 3 years ago another the Women In Service Everywhere award (or WISE) was added so the committee became the Recognition Committee.  Serving with me… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}